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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$26M
Granted FY2023
618
Grants FY2023
11
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$14MHealth$12MEducation$6.5MHuman Services$6.2MFood & Nutrition$3.0MCommunity Improvement$2.8MYouth Development$2.7MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.0MOther$0
02FY2023 · 618 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 618 grants below total $24,384,398, the rows itemized in this filing. The $25,656,875 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,272,477 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k160 grants · $673k
  • $10k–50k274 grants · $5.3M
  • $50k–250k176 grants · $13M
  • $250k+8 grants · $5.9M
$15,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$450M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United Way of Northeast Florida, Inc.$3,027,659
Shands Jacksonville Medical Center, Inc.$550,000
Shands Jacksonville Medical Center, Inc.$550,000
University of Central Florida Foundation$500,000
Baptist Health System, Inc. - Jacksonville$400,000
Overtown Youth Center, Inc.$300,000
E4E Relief LLC$275,000
Read USA Inc.$250,000
Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance Foundation$226,048
Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center$150,000
Florida International University Foundation$150,000
Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance Foundation$150,000
MaliVai Washington Kids Foundation$150,000
United Way of Broward County, Inc.$140,000
United Way of Broward County, Inc.$125,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$49M · 344 repeat orgs$6.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

344 repeat relationships: 296 still active in FY2023, 48 since wound down; 127 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

344
138

Total granted

$49M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+13%

Still filing today

79%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • SJ
    SHANDS JACKSONVILLE MEDICAL CENTER INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $2.5M · revenue +49%
  • ER
    E4E RELIEF LLC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +21%
  • OH
    Orlando Health Inc
    3× · 2021–2023 · $783k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • GI
    GENYOUth improved Inc. - Youth Improved Incorporated
    one grant, 2021 · $285k
  • LH
    LSF Health Systems - Lutheran Services Florida
    one grant, 2022 · $175k
  • CF
    CIVICA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -75%
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.

03Its 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
Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services Inc

Inspired by jewish values, we protect the vulnerable, empower individuals and strengthen families. (continued on schedule o)

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3
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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4
Central Florida Commission On Homelessness Inc

The corporation is organized for the purpose of permanently reducing the number of homeless individuals and families in the central florida region.

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5
Florida Health Care Education & Development Foundation Inc

The florida health care education and development foundation, inc. promotes the educational and professional growth of employees in fhca member centers to support staff stability and improved outcomes of resident care. its mission is to…

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6
The Family Healthcare Foundation Inc

The family healthcare foundation's mission is to be the trusted leader in our community, ensuring access to high-quality healthcare for all in the tampa bay area. see also schedule o.

Health
7
Florida Association of Community Health Centers Inc

The mission of the florida association of community health centers, inc. is to advance florida's community health centers through resource development, partnerships, technical assistance, and increased community awareness.

Health
8
North Central Florida Health Planning Co

Wellflorida's mission is to forge partnerships in planning, research and service that build healthier communities. partnerships have included the development of federally qualified health centers, chronic disease management programs and…

Health
9
Shands Jacksonville Healthcare Inc

As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…

Health
10
Florida Alliance of Children's Councils & Trusts Inc

To promote policies that build effective primary prevention and early intervention systems of support for florida's children and families by engaging and enhancing the collective strengths of the individual children's services councils of…

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11
Central Florida Kidney Centers Inc

Our mission is to provide exceptional dialysis care and services to individuals with end-stage kidney disease throughout central florida. we are dedicated to expanding access to treatment and ensuring all those in need receive quality…

Health
12
Florida Pregnancy Care Network Inc

Our mission is to enhance the efforts of florida pregnancy resource organizations that deliver wellness services to qualifying women, and that provide emotional and material support to pregnant women in need, enabling them to carry their…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbors 4 Neighbors; the most unlike its peers is Hosanna Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

493 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. 493 of the 617 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
98
Early backer (in before they grew)
487/493
Grantees still filing
341/493
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC: $10,097,451 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA…CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $1,145,000 · PhilanthropyCENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $767,886 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY IN…+12 more: $2,265,144 · Philanthropy+12 moreBaptist Health System, Inc. - Jacksonville: $800,000 · OtherGREATER FORT LAUDERDALE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $776,048 · Other+95 more: $14,961,090 · Other+95 moreSHANDS JACKSONVILLE MEDICAL CENTER INC: $2,475,000 · HealthSHANDS JACKSONVI…Orlando Health Inc: $783,427 · HealthOrlando Health I…H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $485,000 · HealthH LEE MOFFITT CA…MUSLIM AMERICAN SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $272,032 · Health+26 more: $3,531,228 · Health+26 moreMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $505,000 · Human ServicesMETROPOLIT…DBWPC INC: $323,000 · Human ServicesDBWPC INCTHE LJD JEWISH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $305,000 · Human ServicesTHE LJD JE…MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: $265,000 · Human ServicesMIAMI LIGH…JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $265,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COM…THE HOSPICE OF THE FLORIDA SUNCOAST INC: $260,000 · Human ServicesHOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $235,000 · Human ServicesTAMPA METROPOLITAN AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $230,000 · Human ServicesSUNCOAST PACE INC: $225,000 · Human ServicesEPISCOPAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $223,000 · Human ServicesHEALTH IN THE HOOD INC: $220,000 · Human ServicesIMPOWER INC: $210,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesJewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc: $200,000 · Human Services+12 more: $1,247,400 · Human Services+12 moreUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $730,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $586,000 · EducationTHE UNIVER…Nova Southeastern University Inc: $555,000 · EducationNova South…UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $497,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY…FLORIDA LITERACY COALITION INC: $315,000 · EducationFLORIDA LI…READ USA INC: $275,000 · EducationREAD USA I…BETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY: $245,000 · EducationORLANDO COMMUNITY & YOUTH TRUST INC: $200,000 · EducationUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc: $190,250 · EducationCENTER FOR CHILD COUNSELING INC: $190,000 · EducationFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $185,000 · EducationNONPROFIT CENTER OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC: $173,500 · EducationMIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $165,000 · Education+9 more: $606,000 · Education+9 moreE4E RELIEF LLC: $1,775,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHEBNI NUTRITION CONSULTANTS INC: $285,000 · Food & NutritionALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $275,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC: $239,000 · Food & NutritionFBH COMMUNITY INC: $220,000 · Food & NutritionAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF THE BIG BEND INC: $200,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $190,000 · Food & NutritionFarmworker Association of Florida Inc: $135,000 · Food & NutritionTREASURE COAST FOOD BANK INC: $105,000 · Food & NutritionHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $100,000 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$14,275,481Other$16,537,138Health$7,546,687Human Services$4,913,400Education$4,913,250Public Safety & Disaster$1,775,000Food & Nutrition$1,749,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC: $10,097,451 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetSHANDS JACKSONVILLE MEDICAL CENTER INC: $2,475,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetE4E RELIEF LLC: $1,775,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $1,145,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetOrlando Health Inc: $783,427 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER FORT LAUDERDALE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $776,048 over 3y, 41% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $767,886 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $730,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $586,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $555,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $505,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $497,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $485,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSENIORS IN SERVICE OF TAMPA BAY INC: $449,566 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetJacksonville Chamber Foundation Inc: $403,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $377,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY MIAMI INC: $354,768 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBROWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $330,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetGUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC: $326,250 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetDBWPC INC: $323,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetFLORIDA LITERACY COALITION INC: $315,000 over 3y, 62% of budgetUNIVERSITY AREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC: $305,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetTHE LJD JEWISH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $305,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetOVERTOWN YOUTH CENTER INC: $300,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $287,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION: $286,994 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHEBNI NUTRITION CONSULTANTS INC: $285,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetREAD USA INC: $275,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $275,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMUSLIM AMERICAN SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $272,032 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: $265,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetNonprofit Leadership Center of Tampa Bay Inc: $265,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $265,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHISPANIC UNITY OF FLORIDA INC: $261,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHE HOSPICE OF THE FLORIDA SUNCOAST INC: $260,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $250,600 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSt Petersburg Free Clinic Inc: $250,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetELIZABETH H FAULK FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetBRIDGE TO HOPE WOC INC: $250,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetBETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY: $245,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVALENCIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $240,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC: $239,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $235,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetTAMPA METROPOLITAN AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $230,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetADVOCATE PROGRAM INC: $230,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $228,360 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSUNCOAST PACE INC: $225,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEPISCOPAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $223,000 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.

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…Jacksonville Jaguars …United Way of Northea…Publix Super Markets …Suncoast Credit Union…The Jim Moran Foundat…Vinik Family Foundati…Pga Tour IncRays Baseball Foundat…United Way Suncoast I…Allegany Franciscan M…Pinellas Community Fo…
The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida IncFL117.6× affinity96 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · United Way of Northeast Florida Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · Vinik Family Foundation · Pga Tour Inc · Rays Baseball Foundation Inc · United Way Suncoast Inc · Allegany Franciscan Ministries Inc · Pinellas Community Foundation

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.

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 617 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $24M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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