· Private foundation
Dean Family 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.
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 $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA | $15,000 |
| MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| WATERMARK OC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES | $10,000 |
| MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES | $10,000 |
| COVINGTON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| UCSF BENIOFF CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| FRIEND OF THE EVERGLADES | $10,000 |
| UCSE SCIA ANGELS LEGACY FUND | $10,000 |
| LOVELAND CENTER | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND COUNTRY | $5,000 |
| ACUE | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 54% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 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, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- LCLOVELAND CENTER INC3× · 2019–2025 · $15k · revenue +9%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC2× · 2017–2020 · $12k · revenue +145%- OROUR RESCUE3× · 2019–2021 · $10k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF KENTUCKY INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -86%
- UWUNITED WAY SUNCOAST DISASTERone grant, 2022 · $13k
- NUNorthwood Universityone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +24%
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.
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,…
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.
To provide opportunity to young people and develop leaders for industry, philanthropy, education and the community through the intercollegiate athletic experience.
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Mobilizing the power of our community to break the cycle of poverty.
As a part of UF Health, the organization'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…
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alliance for Catholic Urban Education Inc. 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 55 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
23 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. 23 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 MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIVEWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Midland County ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds LOVELAND CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Northwood University ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds VENICE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds Healthy Moms & Babes Inc ↗
- Who funds OASIS FOR ORPHANS ↗
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 · Baird Foundation Inc · George Jenkins Foundation Inc · Cps Cares Inc · Iron Horse Family Foundation Inc · Glenn W & Hazelle Paxson Morrison Foundation Inc · Harrell Family Charities Inc · The Charles J Strosacker Foundation · The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · United Way Worldwide · The Pfizer 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 Dean Family 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.
- Venice Theatre 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.