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Brian and Sheila Jellison Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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 2025.

Health$23MEducation$10MPhilanthropy$1.5MRecreation & Sports$331kCrime & Legal$189kArts & Culture$105kInternational$100kHousing & Shelter$70kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Second Heart Homes Inc$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
No Frills Fun Run$20,000
Camp One Step$15,000
Streets of Paradise$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
MN
IL
MA
IN
CA
VA
NC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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

+37%
+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
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

  • SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $20M · revenue +37% · 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%
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.

04Its 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
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

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
20/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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, 1.1% 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 budgetSafe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA YOUTH SOCCER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 14% 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
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…Gulf Coast Community …The Louis and Gloria …Msc Foundation IncCharles & Margery Bar…The Richard M Schulze…Center for Faith and …The Tillie Jennie & H…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…
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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brian and Sheila Jellison Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brian and Sheila Jellison Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Child Protection Center Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Harvest House Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 39 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home