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Damkoehler Family Foundation at a glance

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Damkoehler Family Foundation

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.

$81k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$640kEducation$174kHuman Services$125kHealth$65kCrime & Legal$63kFood & Nutrition$31kArts & Culture$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$707Other$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$566k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ADMIRAL FARRAGUT ACADEMY FOUNDATION$50,000
ALPHA HOUSE$20,000
ST ANTHONYS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
FEEDING TAMPA BAY$1,035
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $590k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ALPHA HOUSE: $339k → 12%ALPHA HOUSE: $91k → 12%ALPHA HOUSE: $75k → 12%ALPHA HOUSE: $56k → 12%ALPHA HOUSE: $20k → 12%ALPHA HOUSE: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$875k · 6 repeat orgs$227k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against -64% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$875k
$166k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
-64%

Still filing today

83%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AF
    ADMIRAL FARRAGUT ACADEMY INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $110k · revenue +26%
  • COMMUNITY ACTION STOPS ABUSE INC
    3× · 2019–2023 · $83k · revenue +138%
  • TK
    The Kind Mouse Productions Inc
    2× · 2019–2020 · $30k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • SF
    SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $105k · revenue +17%
  • TF
    TASK FORCE DAGGER
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • ES
    EASTER SEALS
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Feeding South Florida Inc

Feeding south florida's mission is to end hunger in south florida by providing immediate access to nutritious food, leading hunger and poverty advocacy efforts, and transforming lives through innovative programming and education.

Food & Nutrition
2
Florida Food Force Inc

To fight hunger through united forces/partnerships; provide nutritional food products that will nurture, sustain and enhance quality of life; facility, contribute and promote programs for hunger relief, strengthening our communities.

Food & Nutrition
3
The Florida Aquarium Inc

The Florida Aquarium's mission focuses on our Shared Purpose of a commitment to save marine wildlife, with a Vision to be Florida's leading conservation-based Aquarium. It accomplishes this mission through hosting over 1 million visitors…

Animals
4
Florida Animal Protection Foundation
Animals
5
The Arc Tampa Bay Foundation Inc

To secure the financial future of services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities served by the arc tampa bay, inc. (continued on schedule o)this mission is accomplished through a comprehensive plan of building…

Human Services
6
The Folded Flag Foundation

The mission of the folded flag foundation is to provide scholarships and educational support grants to the spouses and children of the united states military and government personnel who died as a result of hostile action or in an accident…

Public Benefit
7
Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc

The mission of the florida atlantic university foundation inc. is to encourage, promote, and provide funds and other resources for the benefit of florida atlantic university (a part of the florida state university system) in furtherance of…

Education
8
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
9
Tampa Bay Hunger Relief Center Inc

To support feeding america tampa bay, inc. d/b/a feeding tampa bay

Food & Nutrition
10
Amvets Department of Florida Inc

Veterans serving veterans.

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11
Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc

Dedicated to alleviating hunger through acquisition and distribution of food and grocery products, community education to the causes and consequences of hunger, and meaningful action on behalf of people in need of food.

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12
Florida Taxwatch Research Institute Inc

To provide citizens with independent research on government fiscal policy and to promote the most efficient use of taxpayer dollars

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc; the most unlike its peers is Women with Purpose Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALPHA HOUSE OF PINELLAS COUNTY INC: $640,485 · Human ServicesALPHA HOUSE OF PINELLAS COUNTY INCADMIRAL FARRAGUT ACADEMY INC: $110,000 · EducationADMIRAL FARRAGUT…ADMIRAL FARRAGUT ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationADMIRAL FARRAGUT…COMMUNITY ACTION STOPS ABUSE INC: $82,700 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION…TASK FORCE DAGGER: $50,000 · OtherTASK FORCE DAGGE…ST ANTHONYS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherST ANTHONYS HOSP…Individual grant recipient: $8,586 · OtherIndividual grant…+5 more: $8,807 · Other+5 moreSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $105,000 · HealthSEMPER FI &…+1 more: $2,500 · HealthThe Kind Mouse Productions Inc: $30,000 · Community ImprovementMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS OF ST PETERSBURG FLORIDA INC: $3,630 · Arts & CultureFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC: $1,035 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$640,485Education$160,000Other$160,093Health$107,500Community Improvement$30,000Arts & Culture$3,630Food & Nutrition$1,035

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALPHA HOUSE OF PINELLAS COUNTY INC: $640,485 over 7y, 30% of budgetADMIRAL FARRAGUT ACADEMY INC: $110,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $105,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION STOPS ABUSE INC: $82,700 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetADMIRAL FARRAGUT ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetThe Kind Mouse Productions Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS OF ST PETERSBURG FLORIDA INC: $3,630 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWomen with Purpose Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetBEAT CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC: $1,035 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOL RELIEF: $707 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Duke Energy FoundationThe Wood Family Found…Westphal Family Found…Francis and Gertrude …Alvah H & Wyline P Ch…J Crayton Pruitt Foun…Top Jewish Foundation…Pinellas Community Fo…Debartolo Family Foun…The Richard M Schulze…Raymond James Charita…
Community Foundation of Tampa Bay IncFL19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Wood Family Foundation Inc · Westphal Family Foundation Inc · Francis and Gertrude Levett Foundation · Alvah H & Wyline P Chapman Foundation · J Crayton Pruitt Foundation Inc · Top Jewish Foundation Inc · Pinellas Community Foundation · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Damkoehler Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Damkoehler Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Community Action Stops Abuse Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Alpha House of Pinellas County Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Kind Mouse Productions Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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