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Central Florida Foundation
As our region's community foundation, CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION serves as a launchpad for high-impact philanthropy through the collective power of head, heart and dollar, targeting today's most critical challenges.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 154 grants below total $3,999,735 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,591,090 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $591,355 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k61 grants · $358k
- $10k–50k69 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k23 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+1 grant · $332k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW HOPE FOR KIDS | $331,743 |
| LIFT ORLANDO INC | $150,000 |
| MAYFLOWER RETIREMENT CENTER INC | $141,111 |
| 26HEALTH INC | $133,419 |
| ADVENTHEALTH FDN CENTRAL FLORIDA | $118,600 |
| PROJECT OPIOID CFL INC | $113,750 |
| THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION | $85,100 |
| HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY | $82,883 |
| UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC | $77,911 |
| FOUNDATION FOR OSCEOLA EDUCATION INC | $76,082 |
| HISPANIC FEDERATION INC - FLORIDA | $75,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC | $72,059 |
| UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC | $71,389 |
| KONKANI CHARITABLE FUND | $65,150 |
| DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $63,151 |
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 (FY17–25, $5.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
189 repeat relationships — 97 still active in FY2025, 92 since wound down; 46 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $508k 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
- OCORLANDO COMMUNITY & YOUTH TRUST INC8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +227% · 69% of their budget
- HCHealth Care Center For The Homeless Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $2.0M · revenue +51%
- OCORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL READINESS COALITION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +66%
Funded once
- OCOCEAN CONSERVANCYone grant, 2023 · $4.0M · revenue +0%
- CTCLEAN THE WORLD FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $495k · revenue -10%
- GIGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $355k · revenue +108%
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.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
The corporation is organized for the purpose of permanently reducing the number of homeless individuals and families in the central florida region.
Orlando Center for Justice, Inc.s mission is to bridge the access to justice gap in Florida for newcomers by helping these underserved communities navigate the legal system through education and innovation. We also walk alongside them,…
Our mission is to provide exceptional dialysis care and services to individuals with end-stage kidney disease throughout central florida. we are dedicated to expanding access to treatment and ensuring all those in need receive quality…
As our region's community foundation, central florida foundation serves as a launchpad for high-impact philanthropy through the collective power of head, heart and dollar, targeting today's most critical challenges.
From concept to consumer, bioflorida is the premier source for supporting the florida life sciences industry. we provide comprehensive resources and advocacy, while fostering a thriving community that leads in innovation and groundbreaking…
To promote policies that build effective primary prevention and early intervention systems of support for florida's children and families by engaging and enhancing the collective strengths of the individual children's services councils of…
The mission of the florida association of community health centers, inc. is to advance florida's community health centers through resource development, partnerships, technical assistance, and increased community awareness.
Organization mission: florida's children first is a non-profit, nonpartisan, independent advocacy organization committed to protecting and advancing the rights of children and youth impacted by the child welfare, juvenile justice, and…
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
Tri-county human services shall endeavor to provide an array of highquality human services consistent with the needs of the community.services shall be provided in a cost effective, ethical, andprofessional manner and shall focus on…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Care Center for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sage Valley Golf Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
341 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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 341 of the 397 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 COMMUNITY & YOUTH TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Health Care Center For The Homeless Inc ↗
- Who funds HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COORDINATED CARE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL READINESS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ASSET PRESERVATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL FLORIDA REGIONAL HOUSING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS SERVICES NETWORK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW IMAGE YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds ABILITY HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds AdventHealth Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR OSCEOLA EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO DAY NURSERY ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN THE WORLD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 26 HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds ROLLINS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR FOSTER CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BBCDC INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL RESOURCE & EDUCATION CENTER OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds HOLDEN HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds Mayflower Retirement Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CAT PROTECTION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LIFT ORLANDO INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ORLANDO'S FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE AND JUSTICE INSTITUTE INC ↗
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: Adventist Health SystemSunbelt Inc · Heart of Florida United Way Inc · The Dr P Phillips Foundation · Magruder Chesley G Fdn Im · Universal Orlando Foundation Inc · Orlando Health Inc · Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation · The Lee Foundation · The Chatlos Foundation Inc · Orlando Magic Youth Foundation Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · Acahand Foundation
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 Central Florida 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.
- Homeless Services Network of Central Florida Inc — 87% of income from government
- Peer Support Coalition of Florida Inc — 48% of income from government
- Health Care Center for the Homeless Inc — 34% of income from government
- More Too Life Inc — 28% of income from government
- Harbor House of Central Florida Inc — 24% of income from government
- Community Coordinated Care for Children Inc — 19% of income from government
- Meals On Wheels Etc Inc — 18% of income from government
- Ability Housing Inc — 14% of income from government
- United Cerebral Palsy of Central Florida Inc — 13% of income from government
- University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
- Idignity Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- The Christian Sharing Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Impower Inc — 5% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of Central Florida Inc — 3% of income from government
- 26 Health Inc — 2% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- Shalom Orlando Inc — 2% of income from government
- Peace and Justice Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
- United Arts of Central Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Stetson University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Heart of Florida United Way Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- Hope Community Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Nami Greater Orlando Inc — 0% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Orlando Museum of Art Inc — 0% of income from government
- Central Florida Cares Health System Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando Inc — 0% of income from government
- Clean the World Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Trout Lake Nature Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Orlando Health Inc — 0% of income from government
- Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Inc — 0% of income from government
- United Global Outreach Inc — 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.