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Big Cypress Corvettes at a glance

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Big Cypress Corvettes

Its FY2024 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 FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$9kHuman Services$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kPhilanthropy$4kHousing & Shelter$4kYouth Development$3kInternational$3kReligion$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$7k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLESSING OF GRACE FOOD PANTRY$2,500
Individual grant recipient$1,600
COMBAT WARRIORS$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
WOMEN AT THE WELL OF ENCOURAGEMENT$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
FRIENDS OF JEFFERSON LIBRARY$500
CHUCK ROGERS FAMILY$500
FRIENDS OF JEFFERSON ANIMALS$500
MCDCSCO$200
LIONS CLUB$200
KREWE OF HEBE$100
JAW GARDEN CLUB$100
JEFFERSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM$100
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%SCOTT ROBERTSON: $1k → 16%BLESSING OF GRACE FOOD PANTRY: $4k → 18%MCDCSCO: $200 → 19%GEAUR FOR KIDS: $1k → 22%BLESSING OF GRACE FOOD PANTRY: $3k → 18%BLESSING OF GRACE FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 18%BACKPACK LUNCH PROGRAM: $2k → 18%JEFFERSON FIRE DEPT: $2k → 18%JEFFERSON COMBAT WARRIORS: $2k → 18%JEFFERSON VFD: $2k → 18%JEFFERSON FIRE DEPT: $2k → 18%JEFFERSON FIRE DEPT: $2k → 18%WOMEN AT THE WELL OF ENCOURAGEMENT: $2k → 18%WOMEN AT THE WELL OF ENCOURAGEMENT: $1k → 18%LIONS CLUB: $1k → 18%WOMEN AT THE WELL OF ENCOURAGEMENT: $1k → 18%Women at the Well of Encouragement: $1k → 18%WOMEN AT THE WELL OF ENCOURAGEMENT: $1k → 18%JEFFERSON CARNIGIE LIBRARY: $750 → 18%MASONIAC LODGE: $500 → 18%DON RAINEY: $500 → 18%MASONIAC LODGE: $500 → 18%FRIENDS OF JEFFERSON LIBRARY: $500 → 18%CHUCK ROGERS FAMILY: $500 → 18%FRIENDS OF JEFFERSON ANIMALS: $500 → 18%JEFFERSON ADOPT A COP: $500 → 18%JEFFERSON LIONS CLUB: $380 → 18%KREWE OF HEBE: $350 → 18%FRIENDS OF JEFFERSON ANIMALS: $250 → 18%MARION COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $220 → 18%LIONS CLUB: $200 → 18%LIONS CLUB: $170 → 18%JEFFERSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM: $100 → 18%JEFFERSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM: $100 → 18%KREWE OF HEBE: $100 → 18%JAW GARDEN CLUB: $100 → 18%Krew of Hebe: $75 → 18%KREWE OF HEBE: $15 → 18%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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26k · 9 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against -25% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
12

Total granted

$26k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
-25%

Still filing today

33%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • BO
    BLESSING OF GRACE FOOD PANTRY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $8k
  • WA
    WOMEN AT THE WELL OF ENCOURAGEMENT
    5× · 2020–2024 · $6k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2022–2024 · $5k

Funded once

  • BL
    BACKPACK LUNCH PROGRAM
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
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
04the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 26 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
2/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLESSING OF GRACE FOOD PANTRY: $8,000 · OtherBLESSING OF GRACE FOOD PANTRYWOMEN AT THE WELL OF ENCOURAGEMENT: $5,800 · OtherWOMEN AT THE WELL OF ENCOURAGEMENTIndividual grant recipient: $5,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOMBAT WARRIORS: $3,500 · OtherCOMBAT WARRIORSBACKPACK LUNCH PROGRAM: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherLIONS CLUB: $1,470 · Other+17 more: $9,568 · Other+17 moreFRIENDS OF JEFFERSON ANIMALS: $750 · Animals
Other$39,438Animals$750

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

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF JEFFERSON ANIMALS: $750 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKrewe of Hebe Inc: $540 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMarion County Chamber of Commerce: $220 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJefferson Historical Society & Museum: $200 over 2y, 0.1% 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 FRIENDS OF JEFFERSON ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds Krewe of Hebe Inc ↗
  • Who funds Marion County Chamber of Commerce ↗
  • Who funds Jefferson Historical Society & Museum ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

F A Schluter 1818 - 1…
F A Schluter 1818 - 1882TX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: F A Schluter 1818 - 1882

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 Big Cypress Corvettes funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Big Cypress Corvettes. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Big Cypress Corvettes?

    Find your warmest path to Big Cypress Corvettes through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 26 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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