How much did Clifford and LaVonne Graese Foundation grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of Clifford and LaVonne Graese Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

hope

2019

cenhopespecial

2020

food bankcenhopesouthspecial

2021

cenhopeorlandospecial

2022

dogsspecial

2023

medinah

2024

medinahspecial

2025

transportationmedinahspecial

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k25 grants · $573k
$50k–250k5 grants · $443k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$17M

Total assets

Largest grants

Shriners Children's Chicago$150,000
Special Olympics of South Dakota$117,500
Johnson Siding Volunteer Fire Dept$75,000
Prager University Foundation$50,000
Midwest Honor Flights$50,000
Black Hills Works Foundation$45,000
Tunnel to Towers Foundation$40,000
Rethreaded Inc$40,000
Groundwork Jacksonville Inc$40,000
Variety - The Children's Charity$35,000
IDigiity$30,000
Springfield Preservation & Revitalization Council$30,000
Jacksonville History Center$30,000
Turning Point USA$28,500
Camp Courageous$25,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $263k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$8.2M · 57 repeat orgs$559k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against +55% for the ones you funded once.

57 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.2M

$495k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%

+55%

Still filing today

54%

37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationPublic BenefitOther

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

OH
Orlando Health Foundation
6× · 2017–2022 · $860k · revenue +95%
GJ
Groundwork Jacksonville Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $386k · revenue +707%
JS
Johnson Siding Volunteer Fire Dept
7× · 2017–2025 · $351k · revenue +173% · 42% of their budget

Funded once

TT
Tunnels to Towers Foundation
one grant, 2021 · $75k
FH
Fisher House
one grant, 2017 · $50k
UW
United Way IrmaMaria Relief
one grant, 2017 · $50k

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.

Florida Home Partnership Inc

To empower hard working citizens to achieve the american dream of homeownership by providing quality, affordable housing to families living below the median income.

Housing & Shelter

National Veterans Homeless Support Inc

Mission is to Eliminate Homelessness Among Veterans In Central Florida. Programs include the following: "Search and Rescue", "Transitional Housing and Post Traumatic Stress Awareness".

Public Benefit

Foundation for the Homeless Inc

Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.

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Suncoast Partnership to End Homelessness

As lead agency for the sarasota/manatee continuum of care, suncoast partnership collaborates with providers of services and housing for those who are homeless and those at imminent risk of homelessness. we receive and distribute grants,…

Human Services

Hero Dogs Inc

Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.

Human Services

Florida's Great Northwest

To support northwest florida forward, the regional economic development strategy, by driving economic diversification in the region. the organization will provide research, analysis, information, and education on northwest florida's…

Community Improvement

Florida Philanthropic Network Inc

As a statewide association of grantmakers, fpn builds philanthropy for a better florida. we do this through research and education, collaboration, and advancing public policy for the common good of all floridians.

Philanthropy

New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need.

Human Services

Family Promise of Southeast Florida Inc

The organization serves families in crisis by providing temporary shelter, meals, mental health counseling, life skill education, financial literacy training, referral services and comprehensive case management, through our Road to…

Religion

Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc

Mobilizing philanthropy to strengthen communities to withstand and recover from disasters.

Public Safety & Disaster

Safety Shelter of St Johns County Inc

The mission of the organization is to offer protection and quality services for victims of domestic and sexual abuse and their minor children in st. johns county, florida through the establishment and operation of a temporary shelter and…

Housing & Shelter

First Responders Foundation

The mission of the first responders foundation is to serve and honor first responders, veterans, and their families, build appreciation and respect for their work, and enhance public safety. staff provide support to various categories of…

Public Safety & Disaster

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Jacksonville Historical Society. 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.

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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/47

the rest of the field

11%

206,163/1,819,518

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.

05the grantee network

44 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

44/44

Grantees still filing

38/44

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,777,100Health$984,863Arts & Culture$440,576Public Safety & Disaster$435,500Environment$405,592Education$355,000Employment$335,000

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.

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.

Black Hills Area CommunitySD22.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Black Hills Area Community · The Community Foundation For · Synchrony Foundation · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · South Dakota Community Foundation · The Haskell Foundation · VyStar Credit Union · Universal Orlando Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation · Central Florida Foundation · Ge Foundation · Assurant 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 organisation Clifford and LaVonne Graese 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Johnson Siding Volunteer Fire Dept.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 460338182 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Johnson Siding Volunteer Fire Dept, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 42% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to Clifford and LaVonne Graese Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Clifford and LaVonne Graese Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

44 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Clifford and LaVonne Graese Foundation?

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Clifford and LaVonne Graese Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

44 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Clifford and LaVonne Graese Foundation?

More from the funding graph