· Private foundation
Darden Restaurants Inc Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $76k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $210k
- $250k+7 grants · $6.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FEEDING AMERICA | $4,000,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA | $750,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS & ITS CONSTITUENT CHAPTERS AND BRANCHES | $500,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC | $328,000 |
| UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC | $250,000 |
| NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY | $250,000 |
| SENIORS FIRST INC | $110,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $100,000 |
| THE MONARCH LEARNING ACADEMY INC | $23,000 |
| THE CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA | $20,000 |
| SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY | $13,000 |
| COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS OF CENTRAL FL INC | $10,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS INC | $10,000 |
| SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE | $7,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 7 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
Feeding America4× · 2021–2025 · $11M · revenue +23%- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA4× · 2021–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +5%
- UAUNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +97%
Funded once
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INCone grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +7%
- NFNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +22%
- ANAMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS & ITS CONSTITUENT CHAPone grant, 2021 · $250k
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.
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The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
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,…
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We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Highland Preparatory School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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 59 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) — 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 13% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 55 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 Feeding America ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROUND IT UP AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Seniors First Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MONARCH LEARNING ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TAMPA PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ROLLINS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CONDUCTIVE EDUCATION CENTER OF ORLANDO INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE HIGHLAND PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SEACOAST CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION ACADEMY OF WINTER GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds A GIFT FOR TEACHING INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Marietta College ↗
- Who funds WESTOVER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
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: Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation · Universal Orlando Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Orlando Magic Youth Foundation Inc · Magruder Chesley G Fdn Im · The Dr P Phillips Foundation · Central Florida Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Darden Restaurants Inc 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
- United Arts of Central Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Heart of Florida United Way Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida 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.
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