· Private foundation
Bob and Ruthie Harrell 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $93k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORLANDO HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BETTER MAN MINISTRIES INC | $12,500 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| KINGDOM ENCOUNTERS INTERNATIONAL CO | $10,000 |
| GRACE MEDICAL HOME | $10,000 |
| WALKING THE TEXT | $10,000 |
| FLORIDA FAMILY POLICY COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE DONOR MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| CAMPUS CRUSADES FOR CHRIST INC | $6,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR LIFE MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| ORLANDO UNION RESCUE MISSION | $5,000 |
| HARBOR HOUSE OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $15k) 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 16% of Bob and Ruthie Harrell 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, 74% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 62% — 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
23 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- OHOrlando Health Foundation Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $70k · revenue +37%
- WTWALKING THE TEXT2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +366%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $41k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- PCPINE CASTLE WOMENS CLUBone grant, 2023 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
- GKGIVE KIDS THE WORLD INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +96%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
The Organization works to permanently break the cycle of homelessness by providing homeless women with children safe shelter, onsite childcare, access to mental health counseling, access to health care, transportation, education,…
Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Dedicated to igniting personal transformation by affirming faith, inspiring hope, and equipping individuals, to live an intentional life in christ.
South florida bible college & theological seminary is an institution of higher learning where the bible is central in preparing men and women for ministry to serve christ and his church through biblical thought and christian life.
The Organization supports and furthers the interests of Grace Medical Home, Inc., a Florida not-for-profit corporation that is exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The Organization operates…
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
The family research council's primary exempt purpose is to reaffirm and promote nationally, and particularly in washington, dc, the traditional family unit and the judeo-christian value system upon which it is built. frc's activities in…
FFICM helps new believers build a firm foundation for their faith based on a strong relationship with Christ. FFICM programs teach how to follow up with new believers and enable them to have a strong relationship with Christ.
Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florida Family Voice Inc and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the Bible. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 42 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 Orlando Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WALKING THE TEXT ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BETTER MAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Grace Medical Home Inc ↗
- Who funds Nathaniel's Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds CHOICES WOMEN'S CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO UNION RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA FAMILY VOICE INC ↗
- Who funds Harbor House of Central Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds PINE CASTLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM ENCOUNTERS INTERNATIONAL CO ↗
- Who funds MAN IN THE MIRROR INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE BENJI WATSON CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GFWC PINE CASTLE WOMANS CLUB CORP ↗
- Who funds CAME TO BELIEVE RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA HOUSE WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds Highlands Biological Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ROLLINS COLLEGE ↗
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: Good Life Broadcasting Inc · For Giving Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · The Lee Foundation · Magruder Chesley G Fdn Im · National Charitable Fund Inc · Julie and Kirk Cousins Foundation · The Dr P Phillips Foundation · Central Florida Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Bob and Ruthie Harrell 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.
- Harbor House of Central Florida Inc — 24% of income from government
- Rollins College — 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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