· Private foundation
Bolsters Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILDWOOD SOUP KITCHEN | $750,000 |
| THE VILLAGES YOUTH SPORTS CLUB INC | $600,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN AMERICA FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE | $75,000 |
| BUFFALO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| KENNY'S PLACE | $45,000 |
| LAKE-SUMTER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $25,000 |
| AIM INC DBA AIM FOR THE HANDICAPPED INC | $20,000 |
| BAILEY'S BUTTERFLIES FOR TURNER SYNDROME | $10,000 |
| HAVEN OF LAKE & SUMTER COUNTIES INC | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $980k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TVTHE VILLAGES YOUTH SPORTS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +45%
- BSBUFFALO SCHOLARSHIPS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2025 · $250k · revenue -3%
- AIAIM INC DBA AIM FOR THE HANDICAPPED3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue -51%
Funded once
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +34%
- TVTHE VILLAGES CHARTER SCHOOL AUTISM CENTER LLCone grant, 2024 · $100k
- DIDESTINY INSPIRED WOMANone grant, 2024 · $100k
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.
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.
Our mission is to provide help, healing and hope in the name of jesus christ.
During 2024, Solace Charities organized multiple fund raiser events, increased awareness, raised donations and transferred funds to its affiliate Solace.
The south carolina victim assistance network's mission is to ensure crime victims receive access to, and assistance from the criminal and juvenile justice systems and related social service providers; to improve the quality of services…
H.a.v.e.n. family resource center, inc.'s purpose is to provide a safe haven for victims of abuse.
Our mission is to respond to, protect, and restore children so they receive the help, hope, and healing they deserve.
To raise awareness and improve the treatment of infections affecting children with weakened immune systems from and other life-threatening diseases. The Foundation provides funding for education and outreach efforts to save the lives and…
Granting wishes to children of south carolina ages 3 to 18 life threatening illnesses
To help bring hope, healing, and justice to children in our community affected by sexual abuse or severe physical abuse. Safe Spot provides direct services to help child victims & nonoffending caregivers at no cost and to facilitate a…
Our mission is to prevent child abuse and to aid child abuse victims and families by providing coordinated services in a safe, child-friendly environment from report and investigation through treatment and resolution.
We are a church, food bank, outreach that ministers the love of Jesus to our city and the surrounding cities by preaching and teaching the word of God every Sunday. We also minister to anyone with a food need weekly through our food bank.…
It is the mission of the family sunshine center to bring help, hope and healing to victims of family violence and/or sexual assault through a crisis line, emergency shelter, transitional housing, individual and group counseling,…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE VILLAGES YOUTH SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds WILDWOOD SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO SCHOLARSHIPS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds AIM INC DBA AIM FOR THE HANDICAPPED ↗
- Who funds LAKE SUMTER CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KATHRYN LEIGH THURGALAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ocala Outreach Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds KENNY'S PLACE OF MARION COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN OF LAKE AND SUMTER COUNTIES INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bolsters Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bolsters Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Villages Youth Sports Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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