· Private foundation
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.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
Providing hope for the homeless and hurting through housing, case management, support services and strategic alliances.
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…
Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.
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…
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,
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.
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 field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 17% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 IDIGNITY INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Salt Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds NMDP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ONE PURSE ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SUPERIOR PROPERTIES ECONOMI ↗
- Who funds Central Florida Zoological Society Inc ↗
- Who funds TOUCHED BY TYPE 1 INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds PICNIC PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER FOR CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC ↗
- Who funds Goldsboro Front Porch Council Inc ↗
- Who funds AUTOINFLAMMATORY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF ORLANDO SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN SHARING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HELP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FAINE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE CONCEPTS INC ↗
- Who funds FEED HUNGER NOW INC ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO UNION RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds WHIPPING CHILDHOOD CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds ADULT LITERACY LEAGUE INC ↗
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: 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.
- Idignity Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Christian Sharing Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Faine House Inc — 0% 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.
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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.