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Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc
Inspiring and growing philanthropy and civic leadership for maximum impact in local communities.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k122 grants · $845k
- $10k–50k354 grants · $7.8M
- $50k–250k175 grants · $17M
- $250k+47 grants · $29M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONSERVATION FLORIDA INC | $2,525,000 |
| FLORIDA ACHIEVEMENT SUPPORT TRUST | $2,005,000 |
| TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC | $1,447,216 |
| THE FUND FOR CHARITABLE GIVING | $1,331,110 |
| ST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $1,224,750 |
| HILLSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $1,160,130 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $1,112,000 |
| H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION | $1,041,051 |
| CLEARWATER FREE CLINIC | $1,040,348 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC | $1,000,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC | $719,585 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC | $708,730 |
| TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INC | $669,548 |
| FLORIDA WILDLIFE CORRIDOR | $664,414 |
| SPCA TAMPA BAY | $576,978 |
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, $18.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 99% of Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 75% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 1% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
789 repeat relationships — 486 still active in FY2025, 303 since wound down; 170 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.5M 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
- TUThe University of Tampa Incorporated9× · 2017–2025 · $5.6M · revenue +77%
University of South Florida Foundation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $4.6M · revenue +132%- TFTHE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA9× · 2017–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +50%
Funded once
Southern Methodist Universityone grant, 2022 · $5.0M · revenue +3%- CBCALVARY BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $4.0M
- TTTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2.3M · revenue +96%
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.
The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.
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.
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,…
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.
Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…
Suncoast hospice institute is now inactive.
To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…
The mission of heart of florida united way is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our communities. this is accomplished by standing up for the health, education, and financial stability of every person in central florida.
The mission of santafe healthcare, inc. is to serve as the not-for-profit system parent for its family of not-for-profit, mission-driven, affiliate organizations. see schedule o for continuation of the organization's mission. santafe…
Lutheran services florida brings god's healing, hope, and help to people in need in the name of jesus christ.
The fiu research foundation provides means by which discoveries, inventions, processes, and work products of faculty, staff and students of the university may be patented, developed, applied and utilized in order that the results of such…
Hospice of martin & st. lucie, inc. exists to provide hospice, grief counseling, education and other services to patients and families, dealing with death and dying so that they might live as fully and comfortably as possible. hospice…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fostering Hope Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bissell Pet Foundation. 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
1190 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1190 of the 1,499 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 The University of Tampa Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds University of South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF TAMPA INC ↗
- Who funds ST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mercury One Inc ↗
- Who funds MORTON PLANT MEASE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HILLSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ACHIEVEMENT SUPPORT TRUST ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT RUTH INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF ST PETERSBURG INC ↗
- Who funds THE CYPRESS INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds The Florida Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA SUNCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds Clearwater Free Clinic 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: Pinellas Community Foundation · Vinik Family Foundation · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · United Way Suncoast Inc · Rays Baseball Foundation Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · The Florida Medical Clinic Foundation of Caring Inc · Foundation for a Healthy St Petersburg Inc · Top Jewish Foundation Inc · Francis and Gertrude Levett Foundation · Lightning Foundation · Copperhead Charities 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 Community Foundation of Tampa Bay 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.
- Redlands Christian Migrant Association Inc — 51% of income from government
- Seniors in Service of Tampa Bay Inc — 48% of income from government
- The Spring of Tampa Bay Inc — 33% of income from government
- The No More Foundation — 33% of income from government
- Bridging Freedom Inc — 16% of income from government
- Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services Inc — 15% of income from government
- Champions for Children Inc — 14% of income from government
- Bay Area Legal Services Inc — 14% of income from government
- Community Action Stops Abuse Inc — 13% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- Tampa Metropolitan Area Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- Academy Prep Center of Tampa Inc — 3% of income from government
- Tampa Jccfederation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay Inc — 3% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- Hope Villages of America Inc — 2% of income from government
- Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I — 1% of income from government
- United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Children's Home Inc — 0% of income from government
- Eckerd College — 0% of income from government
- Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc — 0% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Kimberly Home — 0% of income from government
- Tampa Museum of Art Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Abe Brown Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Holocaust Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Florida Aquarium 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.