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Big Nova Foundation

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.

$3.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $249k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $750k
  • $250k+7 grants · $2.9M
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$76M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IDIGNITY INC$1,000,000
CONSERVATION FLORIDA INC$600,000
SALT OUTREACH INC$300,000
NMDP FOUNDATION$250,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INC$250,000
ONE PURSE INC$250,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC$250,000
UNITY YOUTH ASSOCIATION INC$200,000
FLORIDA SUPERIOR PROPERTIES ECONOMIC COMMUNITY SERVICES INC$180,000
TOUCHED BY TYPE 1 INC$75,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC$70,382
CENTRAL FLORIDA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC$64,500
CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER FOR CENTRAL FLORIDA INC$60,000
UNITY YOUTH ASSOCIATION INC$50,000
PICNIC PROJECT INC$50,000
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%IDIGNITY INC: $1.0M → 13%SALT OUTREACH INC: $300k → 13%CHRISTIAN HELP FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 11%CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER FOR CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $60k → 13%LIFE CONCEPTS INC: $5k → 13%FAINE HOUSE INC: $10k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 8% of Big Nova Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 85% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Big Nova Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your field

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.

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The Lord's Place Inc

The lord's place, inc. (the lord's place or agency) is a non-sectarian organization dedicated to breaking the cycle of homelessness for men, women and children in our community. supportive services offered through our housing programs…

Housing & Shelter
2
Lighthouse Ministries Inc

Lighthouse ministries, inc. is set apart by the spirit of god to communicate the gospel of jesus christ to meet the physical, emotional, and other needs of the poor and at-risk population.

Religion
3
Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida Inc

The purpose of the organization is to transform the lives of homeless men, women, and children by providing crucial services to end their crisis of homelessness.

4
Saved 2 Serve Inc

Our mission statement is to partner with ordinary people to go and do extraordinary things in the name of Jesus so that all might see, hear and experience Gods love in tangible ways. We spread hope and the love of God to North Floridas…

Human Services
5
The City Rescue Mission Inc

City rescue mission, inc. (the organization), a not-for-profit organization founded in 1946, exists to transform the lives of the homeless and needy, serving them through the love and compassion of jesus christ. the organization provides a…

Housing & Shelter
6
Sherry & Tim Houses of Hope Inc

Our purpose is to provide safe living quarters for individuals that would be considered hard-to-place due to several reasons to include, but not limited to: homelessness, mental illness, bad credit, low income, drug abuse etc. To provide…

Human Services
7
Hope South Florida Inc

Providing hope for the homeless and hurting through housing, case management, support services and strategic alliances.

Human Services
8
Covenant House

In 34 cities across five countries, covenant house builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. we meet their immediate needs for food, clothing, protection, and medical and mental health…

Human Services
9
Covenant House Washington Dc

Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.

Human Services
10
Feeding Charlotte Inc

Feeding Charlotte rescues surplus, freshly prepared meals to reduce food waste and feed the hungry. We believe no food should be wasted while people go hungry in our community. To make this possible, we pickup unused, excess freshly…

Food & Nutrition
11
Broward House Inc

Mission the mission of broward house is to improve the quality of life for individuals impacted with chronic health challenges, including hiv, by providing pathways to wellness. vision providing hope and healing to our communities,

Human Services
12
Bread of Refuge Inc

Bread of Refuge is a food pantry that distributes over 1600 banana boxes of food every month to families in need. We also feed 75-to-100 homeless people every week.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Christian Sharing Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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 25 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number30%17%<5yr18%8%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr13%21%20–35yr8%25%35–55yr11%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value30%13%<5yr18%1%5–10yr20%45%10–20yr13%32%20–35yr8%3%35–55yr11%7%55yr+

The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 17% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
19%
1,654/8,909

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.

04the grantee network

28 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
11/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

IDIGNITY INC — $1,000,000 · Human ServicesIDIGNITY INCSalt Outreach Inc — $300,000 · Human ServicesSalt Outreach IncCHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER FOR CENTRAL FLORIDA INC — $60,000 · Human Services+3 more — $25,000 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INC — $250,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD …BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $250,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED…TOUCHED BY TYPE 1 INC — $75,000 · HealthTOUCHED BY TYPE 1 I…Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Florida Inc — $70,382 · HealthRonald McDonald Hou…+2 more — $25,000 · HealthCONSERVATION FLORIDA INC — $620,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION FLOR…UNITY YOUTH ASSOCIATION INC — $256,000 · OtherUNITY YOUTH ASSO…FOR NINA FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · OtherDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF ORLANDO SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC — $20,000 · OtherPICNIC PROJECT INC — $70,000 · OtherPICNIC PROJECT I…SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC — $25,000 · OtherCentral Florida Zoological Society Inc — $83,476 · OtherCentral Florida …Goldsboro Front Porch Council Inc — $20,000 · Other+9 more — $66,712 · Other+9 moreONE PURSE — $250,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $25,000 · InternationalNMDP FOUNDATION — $250,000 · PhilanthropyFLORIDA SUPERIOR PROPERTIES ECONOMI — $180,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$1,385,000Health$670,382Environment$620,000Other$561,188International$275,000Philanthropy$250,000Housing & Shelter$185,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetIDIGNITY INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetCONSERVATION FLORIDA INC — $620,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetSalt Outreach Inc — $300,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNMDP FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetONE PURSE — $250,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetCentral Florida Zoological Society Inc — $83,476 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTOUCHED BY TYPE 1 INC — $75,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Central Florida Inc — $70,382 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPICNIC PROJECT INC — $70,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetCHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER FOR CENTRAL FLORIDA INC — $60,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGoldsboro Front Porch Council Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetAUTOINFLAMMATORY ALLIANCE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF ORLANDO SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHRISTIAN SHARING CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN HELP FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FAINE HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLIFE CONCEPTS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED HUNGER NOW INC — $5,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetORLANDO UNION RESCUE MISSION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetWHIPPING CHILDHOOD CANCER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetADULT LITERACY LEAGUE INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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.

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.

Central Florida FoundationFL26× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Florida Foundation · Universal Orlando Foundation Inc · Adventist Health SystemSunbelt Inc · Magruder Chesley G Fdn Im · Acahand Foundation · The Father's Table Foundation · Orlando Health Inc · Victory Cup Initiative Inc · The Dr P Phillips Foundation · The Chatlos Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation

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 Big Nova Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 130%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • Idignity Inc6% of income from government
  • The Christian Sharing Center Inc5% of income from government
  • The Faine House Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Big Nova Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Big Nova Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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