· Private foundation
Barbara and Phil Emmer Family Foundation Inc
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
54% of Barbara and Phil Emmer Family Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of North Central Florida Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Barbara and Phil Emmer Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $49k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k8 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA | $25,000 |
| GATOR BOOSTERS INC | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC | $3,000 |
| SWIM ACROSS AMERICA INC | $2,500 |
| HAVEN HOSPICE | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| B'NAI ISRAEL | $1,980 |
| GAINESVILLE FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION | $750 |
| THE CLIMB FOR CANCER FOUNDATION | $500 |
| THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM | $384 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2023, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2023 · $55k · revenue +56%- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA INC5× · 2017–2023 · $27k · revenue +141%
- GBGATOR BOOSTERS INC2× · 2018–2023 · $20k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- SCSTOP CHILDREN'S CANCER INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +7%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENTone grant, 2018 · $2k
- GPGirls Place Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +27%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
The mission of the university of florida alumni association, inc. ("association") is to exclusively support and enhance the mission of the university of florida ("university") of pursuing "excellence in education and research and shaping a…
University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…
As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…
To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…
To provide opportunity to young people and develop leaders for industry, philanthropy, education and the community through the intercollegiate athletic experience.
The mission of the usf alumni association is to foster a mutually beneficial, lifelong relationship between the university and its alumni; to inspire loyalty and pride among current and future alumni; and to advocate for excellence in…
Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…
The organization's mission is to support uf health promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the…
To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.
The mission of heart of florida united way is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our communities. this is accomplished by standing up for the health, education, and financial stability of every person in central florida.
As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Florida Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds GATOR BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF ALACHUA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST ADVOCACY GROUP SWAG ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF GAINESVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GAINESVILLE FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REICHERT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Swim Across America Inc ↗
- Who funds STOP CHILDREN'S CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds Girls Place Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RON AND DIANNE FARB CLIMB FOR CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC ↗
- Who funds BREAD OF THE MIGHTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN LEGAL COUNSEL INC ↗
- Who funds ALACHUA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Gateway Council Inc ↗
- Who funds BUCHHOLZ BAND BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GO2 For Lung Cancer ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Central Florida · United Way of North Central Florida Inc · State Chartered Credit Unions in Florida · First Federal Foundation Inc · Clay Electric Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Hbc Foundation Inc · Doctorbird Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Barbara and Phil Emmer Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.