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Brian and Sheila Jellison Family Foundation

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.

$11M
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$5.1M
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20202025.

Health$23MEducation$10MPhilanthropy$1.5MHuman Services$213kCrime & Legal$189kArts & Culture$105kHousing & Shelter$70kYouth Development$25kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$607k
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $635k
  • $250k+4 grants · $9.8M
$50,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$84M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation$5,113,984
Cancer Vaccine Coalition$2,036,336
Indiana University Foundation$1,596,586
Community Foundation of Sarasota$1,003,584
Visible Men Academy$175,398
Steuben Community Foundation$140,848
Library Foundation of Sarasota County$99,253
Child Protection Center$95,000
The V Foundation for Cancer Research$75,000
Friends of Amani Children's Home United States$50,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
Second Heart Homes Inc$25,000
No Frills Fun Run$20,000
Camp One Step$15,000
Mousam Lake Association$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–24, $213k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LITTLE ANGELS SERVICE DOGS: $35k → 11%CAMP TECUMSEH YMCA: $175k → 9%HARVEST HOUSE: $3k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

ME
VT
NH
MN
IL
MA
IN
CA
VA
NC
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$31M · 11 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
17

Total granted

$31M
$485k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+31%

Still filing today

82%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $20M · revenue +35% · 28% of their budget
  • Indiana University Foundation
    6× · 2020–2025 · $9.6M · revenue +162%
  • TV
    THE V FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $450k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • YC
    YMCA CAMP TECUMSEH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $175k · revenue +419%
  • PN
    PMC NATICK KIDS RIDE
    one grant, 2020 · $68k
  • WESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +33%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
The Paula Takacs Foundation for Sarcoma Research

The mission is to raise funds for local research, amplify awareness, and accelerate the fight to end sarcoma cancers - resulting in local and global development pathway for new sarcoma treatments and increase the speed of accurate…

Health
2
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
3
Cancer Research and Biostatistics

To help conquer cancer and other diseases through the application of biostatistical principles and innovative data management methods.

Health
4
Usf Research Foundation Inc

To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.

Education
5
Children's Tumor Foundation

Our mission: drive research, expand knowledge, and advance care for the nf community. our vision: end nf.

Health
6
The Children's Cancer Cause Inc

The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.

Health
7
CancerFree Kids

CancerFree KIDS exists to raise awareness of the need for more funding for pediatric cancer research and to raise funds that are invested in early stage, potentially game-changing research focused on gentler treatments and cures for…

Health
8
Bay Area Tumor Institute

Cancer prevention and improved patient care through clinical research

9
Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation

Fund research to power cures that reduce the percentage of children who perish from cancer until that number reaches zero.

10
Cancer Support Community Valley Ventura/Santa Barbara Inc

Cancer support community valley/ventura/santa barbaras mission is to uplift and strengthen people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.

11
Tampa Bay Partnership Inc

The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.

12
Pinky Swear Foundation

To provide financial support to families with children battling cancer.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Atlanta Youth Soccer Foundation Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Health CentersCancer Support OrganizationsCommunity FoundationsIndependent K-8 SchoolsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionYouth Development CentersDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Youth Sports Booster Organi…Food Pantries & AssistanceLand Conservation Organizat…Public School District Foun…School Parent OrganizationsCommunity Arts OrganizationsYmca Community CentersPublic University Foundatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%4%<5yr16%8%5–10yr20%35%10–20yr15%15%20–35yr9%35%35–55yr12%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%8%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr15%2%20–35yr9%87%35–55yr12%0%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/29
the rest of the field
17%
17,089/103,015

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

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
18/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $20,444,885 · HealthSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INCCANCER VACCINE COALITION INC — $2,036,336 · HealthCANCER VACCINE COALITION INC+4 more — $474,000 · HealthIndiana University Foundation — $9,638,106 · EducationIndiana University FoundationVISIBLE MEN ACADEMY INC — $425,398 · Education+1 more — $20,000 · EducationTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC — $1,503,977 · Philanthropy+2 more — $41,918 · PhilanthropySteuben Community Foundation — $140,848 · OtherFriends of Amani Children's Home United States — $100,000 · OtherLibrary Foundation of Sarasota County — $99,253 · OtherPMC NATICK KIDS RIDE — $67,500 · OtherPMC PAN MASS CHALLENGE — $61,770 · OtherPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $28,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherSECOND HEART HOMES INC — $60,299 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC — $25,000 · Other+12 more — $104,000 · OtherYMCA CAMP TECUMSEH INC — $175,201 · Human ServicesLITTLE ANGELS SERVICE DOGS — $35,000 · Human Services+1 more — $2,500 · Human ServicesCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC — $189,000 · Crime & LegalELMHURST CHILDREN'S THEATRE — $55,000 · Arts & CultureWESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INC — $50,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$22,955,221Education$10,083,504Philanthropy$1,545,895Other$712,170Human Services$212,701Crime & Legal$189,000Arts & Culture$105,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $20,444,885 over 5y, 28% of budgetIndiana University Foundation — $9,638,106 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC — $1,503,977 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION — $450,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetVISIBLE MEN ACADEMY INC — $425,398 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC — $189,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetYMCA CAMP TECUMSEH INC — $175,201 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetSECOND HEART HOMES INC — $60,299 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetELMHURST CHILDREN'S THEATRE — $55,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetWESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLITTLE ANGELS SERVICE DOGS — $35,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetNo Frills Fun Run — $30,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGAMMA XI BOULE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetTHE OCTOBER SAVES GOALIE CHALLENGE — $11,918 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetELMHURST DISTRICT 205 FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE — $11,500 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetELMHURST-YORKFIELD FOOD PANTRY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSARASOTA BAY WATCH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetATLANTA YOUTH SOCCER FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSafe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTEAM TONY CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHARVEST HOUSE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNational Ataxia Foundation Incorporated — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFERAL FIXERS NFP — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL20.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · Msc Foundation Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Center for Faith and Freedom Inc · The Tillie Jennie & Harold Schwartz Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 organization Brian and Sheila Jellison Family 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
202122232425
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 8%
  • Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc23% of income from government
  • Child Protection Center Inc8% of income from government
  • Harvest House Inc0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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