· Private foundation
Couch Family Foundation(25
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOFFITT CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| THINK BIG FOR KIDS INC | $25,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| OUR LADY OF GRACE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $15,000 |
| STRAZ CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HILLSBOROUGH | $10,000 |
| JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| THE VILLAGE FOUNDATION BLOWING ROCK | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| FRIENDS OF ST JOSPEH WEST TAMPA | $5,000 |
| WINE TO WATER | $5,000 |
| MOUNTAINTRUE | $5,000 |
| SALESIAN SISTERS OF TAMPA | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF JOSHUA HOUSE | $5,000 |
| FARM CAFE INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k 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
METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC4× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +18%
TAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC4× · 2021–2024 · $63k · revenue +118%- WFWomens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc3× · 2021–2023 · $40k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- ARAPPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -45%
- SRSTARTING RIGHT NOWgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +110%
- TBTHE BLOWING ROCK ART & HISTORY MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +40%
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.
In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…
To enable staff and guests, especially the young, to develop their fullest potential in spirit, mind and body. ymca blue ridge assembly seeks to fulfill this purpose by: 1) serving ymca and other non-profit training events and conferences…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. blue ridge habitat for humanity adheres to…
Triangle land conservancy (tlc) strives to create a healthier and more vibrant triangle region by safeguarding clean water, protecting natural habitats, supporting local farms, and connecting people with nature through land protection and…
Our mission is to enrich the lives of all people in northeast ohio by conserving natural habitats, restoring the ecological value of our region's lands and waters, and expanding opportunities to connect people from all cultures to…
Wwt's mission is to protect and restore water in rivers and streams across washington state. washington water trust restores and protects water in rivers and streams and promotes sustainable freshwater management in washington, and, more…
Ctnc conserves land in ways that inspire and enable people to build resilient, just communities. we carry out our mission in collaboration with other conservation organizations and the communities we serve. our goal is to lessen the…
The mission of wealth watchers inc. is to build viable communities by expanding the education and knowledge of individuals, families, and communities for the purpose of understanding and applying essential financial strategies that leads…
The food bank purchases food and obtains donations of food from the united states department of agriculture, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, growers and community members for distribution to people in need in 25 counties and eight…
To protect and restore water quality and habitats of the tinkers creek watershed through community partnerships. the tinker's creek watershed drains 96.4 square miles and is the largest tributary to the cuyahoga river. the watershed area…
Working in partnership with state business leaders to secure florida's future.
What do we do? the mission of citizens for a better flathead is to foster citizen participation and champion sustainable solutions needed to keep the flathead ecologically and economically healthy. since 1992, citizens for a better…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University Area Community Development Corporation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wine to Water. 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 29 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 53 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
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 METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc ↗
- Who funds THINK BIG FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Life Enrichment Center Inc ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MORE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds BLOWING ROCK COMMUNITY FOUNDAT INC ↗
- Who funds STARTING RIGHT NOW ↗
- Who funds THE BLOWING ROCK ART & HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WATAUGA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BLOWING ROCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY AREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds MountainTrue ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY STEPPING STONES INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF TAMPA 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: Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Vinik Family Foundation · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Florida Medical Clinic Foundation of Caring Inc · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · The Spurlino Foundation · Rays Baseball Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Duke Energy Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · North Carolina Community 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 Couch Family Foundation(25 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.
- University Area Community Development Corporation Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- Academy Prep Center of Tampa Inc — 3% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries 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.