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Bernard and Mary Ann Powell Foundation Inc at a glance

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Bernard and Mary Ann Powell 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.

$219k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$71k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$334kEducation$242kEmployment$162kAnimals$154kYouth Development$150kHuman Services$133kHealth$126kCivil Rights$115kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $71k
$8,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGIA VOCATIONAL SOLUTIONS$70,525
Individual grant recipient$15,000
FURNITURE BANK OF METRO ATLANTA$12,000
ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$12,000
Individual grant recipient$11,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HENDERSON$10,000
CHOICES$10,000
VISIBLE MEN ACADEMY$10,000
ST VINCENT DEPAUL$10,000
WILDLIFE INC$8,000
HOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT$8,000
WEDU$8,000
COCO'S PET RANCH$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY$5,000
TAPOLOGY$5,000
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $240k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FURNITURE BANK OF METRO ATLANTA: $12k → 13%GEORGIA VOCATIONAL SOLUTIONS: $71k → 13%GEORGIA VOCATIONAL SOLUTIONS: $29k → 13%GEORGIA VOCATIONAL SOLUTIONS: $15k → 13%GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA: $20k → 10%GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA: $15k → 10%GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA: $12k → 10%GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA: $12k → 10%KING STREET CENTER INC: $10k → 10%ECKERD CONNECTS: $5k → 12%ECKERD YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC: $5k → 12%KING STREET CENTER INC: $7k → 10%EMPATH HEALTH: $7k → 12%KING STREET CENTER INC: $5k → 10%KING STREET CENTER INC: $5k → 10%KING STREET CENTER INC: $5k → 10%KING STREET CENTER INC: $5k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
IL
MI
MA
PA
CT
CA
VA
NC
GA
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 44 repeat orgs$248k to everyone else

44 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
29

Total granted

$1.5M
$203k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+40%

Still filing today

57%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • MJ
    MIGRANT JUSTICE INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $115k · revenue +125%
  • WI
    Wildlife Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +76%
  • HE
    HOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • CS
    COMPEER SARASOTA
    one grant, 2023 · $21k
  • HC
    HENDERSON COUNTY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -64%
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
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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2
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Tampa Bay Florida Inc

Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…

Animals
3
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
4
Brazos Valley Food Bank Inc

Cultivate an environment where our community can grow, contribute and thrive together. a more resilient brazos valley where nutritious food and opportunity are attainable for all.

Food & Nutrition
5
The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast Inc

Suncoast hospice's mission is to be the center to improve life for those touched by advanced illness, death, dying, grief, bereavement and other end-of-life issues.

Human Services
6
Better Together Strengthening Familes Inc

Better together helps at-risk families by empowering parents and surrounding them with community, meaningful work opportunities, and practical support. our volunteer-driven, professionally supported model provides direct services so that…

Human Services
7
Humane Society of Manatee County

The humane society of manatee county leads the community in fostering compassion and respect for animals through quality care, education, and advocacy to improve the lives of animals and strengthen the human-animal bond.

Animals
8
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
9
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
10
Suncoast Partnership to End Homelessness

Lead agency in the community for providers of homeless/prevention services in manatee/sarasota. responsible to plan strategies with community partners, assist with grants, educate the public, advocate with local leadership, administer the…

Human Services
11
Suncoast Center Inc

For 80 years, suncoast center, inc. has held true to its mission of "strengthening, protecting, and restoring lives for a healthy community" by providing a comprehensive range of evidence-based services that address emotional wellness,…

Health
12
Harbor House of Central Florida Inc

Harbor house strives to prevent and break the cycle of domestic abuse through empowerment-based programs, advocacy, education, and community involvement.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeless Emergency Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is 2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue. 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

43 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. 43 of the 78 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/43
Grantees still filing
25/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST VINCENT DEPAUL: $76,000 · OtherST VINCENT DEPAULWildlife Inc: $74,000 · OtherWildlife IncUNIVERSITY OF DETROIT HIGH SCHOOL: $65,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DETROIT HIGH SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $55,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE SALVATION ARMY: $40,000 · OtherJUVENILE SERVICES PROGRAM INC: $35,000 · OtherTAPOLOGY: $34,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HENDERSON COUNTY/HENDERSONVILLE INC: $50,000 · Other+44 more: $572,988 · Other+44 moreGEORGIA VOCATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $114,925 · Human ServicesGEORGIA VOCATIO…GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC: $59,000 · Human ServicesGREATER BURLING…KING STREET CENTER INC: $37,000 · Human ServicesKING STREET CEN…FURNITURE BANK OF METRO ATLANTA INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesECKERD YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $7,000 · Human ServicesMIGRANT JUSTICE INC: $115,000 · Food & NutritionMIGRANT JU…VERMONT FOODBANK: $32,500 · Food & NutritionVERMONT FO…ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $12,000 · Food & NutritionATLANTA CO…+1 more: $5,000 · Food & NutritionHOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT INC: $72,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC: $29,000 · Housing & ShelterFLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $53,500 · Arts & CultureLAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY: $55,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA: $12,500 · EducationVISIBLE MEN ACADEMY INC: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationThe Center Helping Obesity in Children End Successfully Inc: $27,500 · HealthSTERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND LEARNING: $15,000 · HealthHENDERSON COUNTY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $10,000 · HealthLightshare Behavioral Wellness & Recovery Inc: $7,500 · HealthMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $7,500 · HealthBEYOND THE SPECTRUM INC: $2,500 · Health
Other$1,002,488Human Services$239,925Food & Nutrition$164,500Housing & Shelter$101,000Arts & Culture$88,500Education$80,000Health$70,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMIGRANT JUSTICE INC: $115,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetGEORGIA VOCATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $114,925 over 3y, 54% of budgetWildlife Inc: $74,000 over 8y, 10% of budgetHOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT INC: $72,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC: $59,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY: $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $53,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HENDERSON COUNTY/HENDERSONVILLE INC: $50,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetKING STREET CENTER INC: $37,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetJUVENILE SERVICES PROGRAM INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetVERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC: $33,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK: $32,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC: $31,836 over 4y, 0.1% of budget2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue: $30,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC: $29,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center Helping Obesity in Children End Successfully Inc: $27,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOCOS PET RANCH INC: $20,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetProject Dignity of Western North Carolina Inc: $17,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetSTERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND LEARNING: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA: $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFURNITURE BANK OF METRO ATLANTA INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENDERSON COUNTY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISIBLE MEN ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOVE A CHILD INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetECKERD YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVermont Public Radio: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLightshare Behavioral Wellness & Recovery Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMPATH HEALTH INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetManatee Children's Services Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL BLACK FARMERS ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVan Gogh's Palette Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCONQUISTADOR HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBEYOND THE SPECTRUM INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANNIE LUCY WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY PTO: $2,500 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $424 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.

  • Who funds MIGRANT JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA VOCATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds Wildlife Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HENDERSON COUNTY/HENDERSONVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds KING STREET CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds JUVENILE SERVICES PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
  • Who funds COASTAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC ↗
  • Who funds FORGET-ME-NOT ↗
  • Who funds 2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue ↗
  • Who funds COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds The Center Helping Obesity in Children End Successfully Inc ↗
  • Who funds COCOS PET RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds Project Dignity of Western North Carolina Inc ↗
  • Who funds STERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND LEARNING ↗
  • Who funds LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC ↗
  • Who funds SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH ATLANTA ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Manatee Community Fou…Gulf Coast Community …The Vermont Community…The Richard M Schulze…Peoples United Commun…The Independent Chari…Publix Super Markets …The Kelsey TrustHoehl Family Foundati…The Jewish Federation…United Way of Northwe…
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL24.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Peoples United Community Foundation · The Independent Charitable Gift Fund · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Kelsey Trust · Hoehl Family Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee Inc · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc

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 Bernard and Mary Ann Powell Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bernard and Mary Ann Powell Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Vermont Works for Women Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc: 52% of income from government
  • King Street Center Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Homeless Emergency Project Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank: 13% of income from government
  • Eckerd Youth Alternatives Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Shelburne Museum Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Lake Champlain Maritime Museum at Basin Harbor Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Lightshare Behavioral Wellness & Recovery Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Migrant Justice Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Stern Center for Language and Learning: 0% of income from government
  • Love a Child Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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 78 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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