How much did BIG NOVA FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

BIG NOVA FOUNDATION reported 39 grants totaling $3,946,570 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is BIG NOVA FOUNDATION based?

BIG NOVA FOUNDATION is based in FL.

BIG NOVA FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

BIG NOVA FOUNDATION

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$3.9M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$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

States reached

$76M

Total assets

Largest grants

IDIGNITY INC$1,000,000
CONSERVATION FLORIDA INC$600,000
SALT OUTREACH INC$300,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC$250,000
NMDP FOUNDATION$250,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INC$250,000
ONE PURSE 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
PICNIC PROJECT INC$50,000
UNITY YOUTH ASSOCIATION INC$50,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

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.

Feeding Dreams Inc

The mission of Feeding Dreams to combat childhood hunger and malnutrition that affect one in five children in Florida. Through grants, fundraising efforts, and school partnerships, we delivered 2.5 million highly nutritious meals to…

Food & Nutrition

Florida Food Force Inc

The mission of florida food force is to fight hunger through united forces/partnerships; provide nutritional food products that will nurture, sustain and enhance quality of life; facilitate, contribute and promote programs for hunger…

Food & Nutrition

Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc

Feeding Northeast Florida works to permanently end hunger in Northeast Florida by providing nutritious foods and other essential goods to people facing hunger, by addressing food insecurity, poverty and poor health through education and…

Food & Nutrition

Central Florida Haven of Hope Ministries Inc

Benevolence and food support for those in the community who are food insecure.

Health

Farm Share Inc

Farm share, inc. is a 501(c)(3) florida not for profit food bank dedicated to fighting food insecurity in florida.

Food & Nutrition

The Poverello Center Inc

The poverello center, inc. provides nutritious food, services and basic living essentials with the highest degree of understanding, respect and love for individuals living with critical and chronic illnesses including hiv, in south florida.

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Feed the Hungry Pantry of Palm Beach County Inc

Ending hunger in palm beach county

Food & Nutrition

Florida Impact Inc

Florida impact to end hunger is dedicated to advancing health equity by ending hunger for all floridians. we mobilize communities to maximize access to federal, state, and local food and nutrition programs with a focus on florida's most…

Civil Rights

Hogar Crea International of Florida

Health

Hope Helps Inc

To prevent and reduce hunger and homelessness in central florida by equipping individuals and families to become self-sufficient through housing, outreach, prevention, and education.

Human Services

Homeless Services Network of Central Florida

The creation of a comprehensive and integrated system of services to homeless persons in the central florida area.

Human Services

Central Florida Childrens Home

To provide homes for disadvantaged children.

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 World Central Kitchen 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 15 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/31

the rest of the field

16%

1,391/8,910

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

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/27

Grantees still filing

22/27

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$1,385,000Environment$620,000Other$811,188Health$420,382International$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

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 FoundationFL28.5× affinity11 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 · Duke Energy Foundation · The Dr P Phillips Foundation · Orlando Health Inc · The Galloway Foundation · Magruder Chesley G Fdn Im · The Father's Table Foundation · Acahand Foundation · Heart of Florida United Way Inc · Truist Foundation Inc

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 organisation 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

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typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WHIPPING CHILDHOOD CANCER INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 471866239 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on WHIPPING CHILDHOOD CANCER INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 64% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Big Nova Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Big Nova Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BIG NOVA FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Big Nova Foundation?

More from the funding graph

BIG NOVA FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Big Nova Foundation?

More from the funding graph