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Clifford and LaVonne Graese 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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$2.4MHuman Services$1.2MArts & Culture$1.1MEducation$695kHousing & Shelter$533kPublic Safety & Disaster$526kYouth Development$510kEnvironment$406kOther$0
02FY2025 · 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
11
States reached
$9.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Shriners Children's Chicago$150,000
Special Olympics of South Dakota$117,500
Johnson Siding Volunteer Fire Dept$75,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
Prager University Foundation$50,000
Black Hills Works Foundation$45,000
Rethreaded Inc$40,000
Groundwork Jacksonville Inc$40,000
Tunnel to Towers Foundation$40,000
Variety - The Children's Charity$35,000
Jacksonville History Center$30,000
IDigiity$30,000
Springfield Preservation & Revitalization Council$30,000
Turning Point USA$28,500
Sanctuary on 8th Street$25,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $658k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Girls Who Code: $25k → 17%Southeastern Guide Dogs: $25k → 10%IDigiity: $35k → 13%Metropolitan Ministries: $20k → 13%Camp Courageous: $30k → 11%Southeastern Guide Dogs: $15k → 10%IDigiity: $30k → 13%Metropolitan Ministries: $15k → 13%Camp Courageous: $25k → 11%Metropolitan Ministries: $13k → 13%Camp Courageous: $25k → 11%IDigiity: $25k → 13%Metropolitan Ministries: $10k → 13%Camp Courageous: $25k → 11%IDigiity: $20k → 13%Camp Courageous: $25k → 11%IDigiity: $20k → 13%Camp Courageous: $20k → 11%Camp Courageous: $15k → 11%Camp Courageous: $15k → 11%IDigiity: $10k → 13%Camp Courageous: $15k → 11%IDigiity: $10k → 13%Rethreaded Inc: $40k → 14%Rethreaded Inc: $30k → 14%Idignity: $20k → 13%Family Shelter Service: $25k → 7%Family Shelter Service: $10k → 7%Rethreaded Inc: $25k → 14%Rethreaded Inc: $20k → 14%Rethreaded Inc: $10k → 14%Children's Home Society: $10k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
SD
IA
IN
OH
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.3M · 56 repeat orgs$434k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.

56 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
27

Total granted

$8.3M
$370k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+40%

Still filing today

73%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsEducationHousing & 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

  • OH
    Orlando Health Foundation Inc
    6× · 2017–2022 · $860k · revenue +139%
  • GJ
    GROUNDWORK JACKSONVILLE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $386k · revenue ×18
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
    3× · 2023–2025 · $370k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +32%
  • UW
    United Way IrmaMaria Relief
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • FP
    FRONT PORCH COALITION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k

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 Hospice of the Florida Suncoast Inc

Suncoast hospice's mission is to be the center to improve life for those touched by advanced illness, death, dying, grief, bereavement and other end-of-life issues.

Human Services
2
Foundation for the Homeless Inc

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

3
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
4
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

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.

5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

6
Us Digital Response

U.s. digital response is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps governments, nonprofits, and public entities respond quickly to critical public needs. the organization serves the public by leveraging a network of pro bono…

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Easter Seals Florida Inc

See schedule o for a complete description of the organization's mission

Health
8
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
9
The Hospice Foundation of the Florida Suncoast Inc

The mission of suncoast hospice foundation is to advance the understanding, participation, and support of the mission and programs of suncoast hospice and its affilated organizations, honoring the community's sacred trust through sound…

10
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
11
Opportunity Partners

Mission: together we advance the quality of life for people with disabilities. vision: people of all abilities thrive in the world. values: impact- generate solutions that make a difference. choice - create opportunities for people to lead…

Employment
12
First Responders Foundation

First responders foundation's mission is to serve and honor all our first responders and their families, build appreciation and respect for their work, and enhance public safety.

Public Safety & Disaster

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Hills Works Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Front Porch Coalition. 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 backsteadyDomestic Violence ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community FoundationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Military Veterans SupportAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity Arts CentersEnvironmental Conservation …Food Banks and PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …
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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%39%35–55yr16%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%49%35–55yr16%13%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/61
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,504

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

58 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. 58 of the 88 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/58
Grantees still filing
44/58
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Shriners Children's Hospital — $590,000 · OtherShriners Children's HospitalIndividual grant recipient — $347,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBlack Hills Children's Home — $258,750 · OtherBlack Hills Children's HomeVariety - The Children's Charity — $230,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH DAKOTA INC — $312,500 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH DAKOTA INCBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC — $305,000 · OtherBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INCBLACK HILLS WORKS FOUNDATION INC — $335,000 · OtherBLACK HILLS WORKS FOUNDATION INCTHE EXPERIMENTAL STATION — $304,000 · OtherTHE EXPERIMENTAL STATION+52 more — $2,032,250 · Other+52 moreOrlando Health Foundation Inc — $859,863 · HealthOrlando Health Fo…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $370,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITAL…Mercy Medical Angels — $115,000 · HealthMercy Medical Ang…+1 more — $10,000 · HealthCAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA — $195,000 · Human ServicesIDIGNITY INC — $170,000 · Human ServicesRethreaded Inc — $125,000 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC — $57,500 · Human ServicesSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc — $40,000 · Human ServicesFamily Shelter Service Inc — $35,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS WHO CODE INC — $25,000 · Human Services+3 more — $37,500 · Human ServicesPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $300,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $185,000 · EducationHope At Hand Inc — $35,000 · EducationKHAN ACADEMY INC — $20,000 · EducationSpringfield Preservation & Revitalization Council Inc — $275,576 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC) — $115,000 · Arts & CultureELDERHEART INC — $57,500 · Arts & CultureILLINOIS STATE POLICE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $20,000 · Arts & CultureJOHNSON SIDING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT — $350,500 · Public Safety & DisasterALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC — $165,000 · Public Safety & DisasterGROUNDWORK JACKSONVILLE INC — $385,592 · EnvironmentTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Environment
Other$4,714,600Health$1,354,863Human Services$685,000Education$540,000Arts & Culture$518,076Public Safety & Disaster$515,500Environment$405,592

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 budgetOrlando Health Foundation Inc — $859,863 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetGROUNDWORK JACKSONVILLE INC — $385,592 over 9y, 13% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $370,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSON SIDING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT — $350,500 over 7y, 42% of budgetBLACK HILLS WORKS FOUNDATION INC — $335,000 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH DAKOTA INC — $312,500 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC — $305,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetTHE EXPERIMENTAL STATION — $304,000 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSpringfield Preservation & Revitalization Council Inc — $275,576 over 9y, 15% of budgetCAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA — $195,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $185,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIDIGNITY INC — $170,000 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC — $165,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetTHE HOPE CENTER — $135,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetRethreaded Inc — $125,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTHE SANCTUARY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC — $125,000 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetThe Jacksonville Historical Society Inc — $120,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetNATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC) — $115,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetMercy Medical Angels — $115,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetHarbor House of Central Florida Inc — $105,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS O — $105,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetPhi Delta Theta Foundation — $95,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCORNERSTONE RESCUE MISSION — $95,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC — $90,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC — $57,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetELDERHEART INC — $57,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetILLINOIS STATE POLICE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetNorthwestern University — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PATH OF CITRUS COUNTY INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORKING DOGS FOR VETS — $35,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetHope At Hand Inc — $35,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetFamily Shelter Service Inc — $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDIVERS ALERT NETWORK — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $28,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF SOUTH DAKOTA — $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOperation New Hope Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR PUERTO RICO INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSUPPORT THE ENLISTED PROJECT INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBLACK HILLS AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSUNCATCHER THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY INC — $12,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA & MONTANA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

  • Who funds Orlando Health Foundation Inc
  • Who funds GROUNDWORK JACKSONVILLE INC
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
  • Who funds JOHNSON SIDING VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT
  • Who funds BLACK HILLS WORKS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOUTH DAKOTA INC
  • Who funds BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC
  • Who funds THE EXPERIMENTAL STATION
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Springfield Preservation & Revitalization Council Inc
  • Who funds CAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds IDIGNITY INC
  • Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC
  • Who funds THE HOPE CENTER
  • Who funds Rethreaded Inc
  • Who funds THE SANCTUARY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC
  • Who funds The Jacksonville Historical Society Inc
  • Who funds NATIONAL MUSIC MUSEUM (AMERICAS SHRINE TO MUSIC)
  • Who funds Mercy Medical Angels
  • Who funds Harbor House of Central Florida Inc
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS O
  • Who funds Phi Delta Theta Foundation
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE RESCUE MISSION
  • Who funds NATIONAL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds ELDERHEART INC
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ILLINOIS STATE POLICE HERITAGE FOUNDATION

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 Community FoundationSD30.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Black Hills Area Community Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · South Dakota Community Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · Assurant Foundation · VyStar Credit Union · The Haskell Foundation · Larson Foundation · Universal Orlando 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 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 70%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • Harbor House of Central Florida Inc24% of income from government
  • The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc16% of income from government
  • Operation New Hope Inc13% of income from government
  • Idignity Inc6% of income from government
  • Groundwork Jacksonville Inc3% of income from government
  • Nami Greater Orlando Inc0% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc0% of income from government
  • Metropolitan Ministries Inc0% of income from government
  • Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Inc0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Clifford and LaVonne Graese Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Clifford and LaVonne Graese Foundation 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 88 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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