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Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$73kCivil Rights$30kEducation$23kHealth$20kEnvironment$10kScience & Tech$5kArts & Culture$4kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$16k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ASSOC OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ACTS LEGACY FOUNDATION: $100 → 7%AMERICAN ASSOC OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN: $10k → 14%SPACE COAST SYMPHONY: $10k → 10%INDIAN RIVER FOOD POLICY COUNCIL: $3k → 11%UNITARIAN UNIVERSAL CHURCH: $35k → 12%FIELDEN INSTITUTE FOR LIFELONG LEAR: $10k → 13%RESEARCH IINSTITUTE OF SOUTH FLORID: $5k → 15%AMERICAN ASSOC OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN: $5k → 14%UNITARIAN UNIVERSAL CHURCH: $24k → 12%INIDAN RIVER ST COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $6k → 13%AMERICAN ASSOC OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN: $5k → 14%UNITARIAN UNIVERSAL CHURCH: $3k → 12%IRSC FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%AMERICAN ASSOC OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN: $2k → 14%UNITARIAN UNIVERSAL CHURCH: $3k → 12%ATLANTIC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA: $1k → 13%AMERICAN ASSOC OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN: $2k → 14%UNITARIAN UNIVERSAL CHURCH: $2k → 12%IRSC FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%AMERICAN ASSOC OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN: $2k → 14%UNITARIAN UNIVERSAL CHURCH: $2k → 12%VERO BEACH WINE & FILM FESTIVAL: $1k → 13%AMERICAN ASSOC OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN: $2k → 14%UNITARIAN UNIVERSAL CHURCH: $2k → 12%IRSC FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%AMERICAN ASSOC OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN: $1k → 14%UNITARIAN UNIVERSAL CHURCH: $2k → 12%ATLANTIC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA: $1k → 13%AMERICAN ASSOC OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN: $1k → 14%IRC HEALTHY START COALITION: $10k → 12%IRSC FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%WHOLE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER: $5k → 12%SUNCOAST MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: $2k → 12%VERO BEACH THEATRE GUILD: $1k → 12%SUNCOAST MEDICAL HEALTH CENTER: $1k → 12%UNITED WE AGE: $2k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$111k · 4 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
14

Total granted

$111k
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+20%

Still filing today

75%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UU
    UNITARIAN UNIVERSAL CHURCH
    8× · 2017–2024 · $73k
  • AA
    AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue -11%
  • IR
    INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $7k · revenue +226%

Funded once

  • WC
    WE CARE FOUNDATION RIVER
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • IR
    INDIAN RIVER COUNTY HEALTHY START COALITION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +13%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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2
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
3
Uvmc Foundation

Enhance the patient and family experience at upper valley medical center by raising community support for programs and services which help build healthy communities.

Philanthropy
4
University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

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5
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
6
Inova Health System Foundation

Inova health system foundation is the parent of inova health system (ihs). ihs provides healthcare and related services throughout northern virginia and the greater metropolitan washington, d.c. area, including certain contiguous counties…

Health
7
Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
8
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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10
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
11
Riverview Healthcare Association

We deliver a healthcare experience that consistently exceeds patients' expectations through exceptional people - our people are our foundation. we employ trusted, dedicated professionals who serve with compassion, empathy and respect.…

Health
12
The Birth Center

The birth center dba lifecycle wellness and birth center is an independent non-profit organization and free-standing, out-of-hospital birth center. our team of midwives and nurse-practitioners provide empowering gynecology and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vero Beach Theatre Guild Inc; the most unlike its peers is Whole Family Health Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITARIAN UNIVERSAL CHURCH: $72,810 · OtherUNITARIAN UNIVERSAL CHURCHWE CARE FOUNDATION RIVER: $10,000 · OtherWE CARE FOUNDATION RIVERIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFIELDEN INSTITUTE FOR LIFELONG LEAR: $10,000 · OtherFIELDEN INSTITUTE FOR LIFELONG LEARINIDAN RIVER ST COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $6,000 · OtherRESEARCH IINSTITUTE OF SOUTH FLORID: $5,000 · Other+4 more: $7,600 · Other+4 moreAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC: $29,500 · EducationAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF…INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 · EducationINDIAN RIVER STATE COLL…INDIAN RIVER COUNTY HEALTHY START COALITION INC: $10,000 · HealthINDIAN RI…WHOLE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $5,000 · HealthWHOLE FAM…ATLANTIC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureVERO BEACH THEATRE GUILD INC: $1,300 · Arts & CultureFILM VERO INC VERO BEACH FILM FESTIVAL: $1,000 · Arts & CultureACTS LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $100 · Philanthropy
Other$121,410Education$36,000Health$15,000Arts & Culture$4,300Philanthropy$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC: $29,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN RIVER COUNTY HEALTHY START COALITION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWHOLE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSUNCOAST MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $1,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVERO BEACH THEATRE GUILD INC: $1,300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetACTS LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Indian River Communit…John's Island Communi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Indian River Community Foundation IncFL17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Indian River Community Foundation Inc · John's Island Community Service League Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ask Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ask Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Vero Beach Theatre Guild Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Whole Family Health Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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