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Carl S Swisher Foundation Inc

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6.6M
Granted FY2018
28
Grants FY2018
1
States reached
$6.3M
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2018 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k11 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $245k
  • $250k+1 grant · $6.3M
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Jacksonville University$6,299,144
University of Florida Foundation Inc$40,000
Jacksonville University$40,000
UNC Son Foundation Inc$25,000
Flagler College$15,000
Children's Home Society$12,500
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation$12,000
American Red Cross$10,000
Community Hospice Foundation$10,000
Jacksonville Children's Chorus$10,000
UNF University North Florida$10,000
Baptist Wolfson Children's Hospital$10,000
Southern Scholarship Foundation$10,000
Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens$10,000
Jacksonville Symphony Association$10,000
02The need
02

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Children's Home Society: $13k → 14%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.

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 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
Communities in Schools of Jacksonville Inc

To surround students at risk of dropping out with caring adults embedded in schools who provide a community of support with safe places to learn and grow, a focus on graduation to ensure successful futures with a marketable skills, and…

Education
2
The Jacksonville Historical Society Inc

The mission of the Jacksonville Historical Society is to strengthen citizenship through public history education.

3
The Jackson Laboratory

The purposes of the laboratory are scientific, medical, charitable, and educational. our mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the biomedical community.

Health
4
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
5
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
6
Junior Achievement of Greater South Carolina Inc

Junior achievement of greater south carolina (jagsc) is dedicated to inspiring and preparing young people to thrive in a global economy. through innovative learning experiences, ja focuses on three core areas: financial literacy,…

International
7
The Ljd Jewish Family & Community Services Inc

The mission of the ljd jewish family & community services, inc. is to strengthen the entire community by providing family and individual social services in the jewish tradition of helping people help themselves.

Human Services
8
Florida Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc

Working in partnership with state business leaders to secure florida's future.

9
The Florida Center for Early Childhood Inc

The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…

Human Services
10
Junior Achievement of Central Florida Inc

Jacf empowers students to economic success by delivering innovative, experiential learning programs in fin literacy, career readiness, and entrepreneurship. partnerships with educators and business leaders inspire and prepare students to…

International
11
The Conservancy of Southwest Florida

We are a grassroots organization focused on the critical environmental issues of sw florida. we accomplish this through a myriad of efforts by the teams in our programmatic departments: science, policy, education and wildlife…

12
Florida Southern College

Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jacksonville Symphony Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 27 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Jacksonville University — $6,339,144 · EducationJacksonville University+3 more — $65,000 · EducationUNC Son Foundation Inc — $25,000 · OtherUNF University North Florida — $10,000 · OtherRIVERSIDE FINE ARTS ASSOCIATIONINC — $10,000 · OtherBaptist Wolfson Children's Hospital — $10,000 · OtherAmerican Red Cross — $10,000 · OtherCommunity Hospice Foundation — $10,000 · OtherSalvation Army (Meal Ministry — $9,000 · OtherDOWNTOWN ECUMENICAL SERVICES COUNCIL INC — $7,500 · OtherSt Pius V Parish School — $5,000 · OtherMS Society — $5,000 · OtherSalvation Army (Kettle Fund) — $5,000 · OtherTrinity Rescue Ministries — $4,000 · Other+2 more — $6,000 · OtherTHE JACKSONVILLE CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureJacksonville Symphony Association Inc — $10,000 · Arts & CultureDE ETTE HOLDEN CUMMER MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA — $12,500 · Human ServicesHUBBARD HOUSE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesJACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $8,000 · AnimalsJACKSONVILLE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $5,000 · AnimalsBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $12,000 · HealthTHE CITY RESCUE MISSION INC — $4,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$6,404,144Other$116,500Arts & Culture$30,000Human Services$22,500Animals$13,000Health$12,000Housing & Shelter$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJacksonville University — $6,339,144 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLAGLER COLLEGE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACKSONVILLE CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJacksonville Symphony Association Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDE ETTE HOLDEN CUMMER MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHUBBARD HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJACKSONVILLE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CITY RESCUE MISSION INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation IncFL17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Pga Tour Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Thomas M and Irene Kirbo Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville Inc · The Haskell Foundation · National Grange Mutual Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Carl S Swisher Foundation Inc 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 · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • Hubbard House Inc42% of income from government
  • The Children's Home Society of Florida6% of income from government
  • Jacksonville University3% of income from government
  • Southern Scholarship Foundation Inc1% of income from government
  • Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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How do I get to Carl S Swisher Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Carl S Swisher Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 27 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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