· Private foundation
Denis L Fontaine Foundation Inc
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA | $35,000 |
| POLK STATE COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| SOUTH FLORIDA AVENUE CHURCH OF CHRIST | $15,000 |
| CLEARWATER COMMUNITY SAILING ASSOCITION | $15,000 |
| ST PAUL EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURC | $10,000 |
| LAKELAND HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| LAKE TO LAKE MEMORIAL CLASSIC | $5,000 |
| KATHLEEN HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| GEORGE JENKINS HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| LAKE GIBSON HIGH SCHOOL | $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 (FY19–19, $10k) 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 — 10 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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; $0 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
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $245k · revenue +59%
- FSFLORIDA SCHOOL OF PREACHING6× · 2019–2024 · $160k · revenue +70%
- FCFLORIDA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC6× · 2019–2024 · $130k · revenue +266%
Funded once
- TPTruth Point Churchone grant, 2022 · $50k
- SPSt Petersburg Christian Schoolone grant, 2022 · $50k
- SJST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL OF TAMPA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +644%
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.
To promote and advance friendly relations among persons connected with the management of clubs; to encourage the education and advancement of its members; and to assist club officers and members, through their managers, to secure the…
South florida bible college & theological seminary is an institution of higher learning where the bible is central in preparing men and women for ministry to serve christ and his church through biblical thought and christian life.
Choices medical clinic, inc., a christian non-profit clinic, has offered no-cost abortion alternatives to patients since 1999 - including perinatal hospice care for preborn infants with a terminal diagnosis.
The y is a leading nonprofit committed to strengthening communities through youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. our mission is to put judeo-christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy…
To encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from moment of conception and to serve women and men facing unplanned pregnancies
Faith-based substance abuse and discipleship program
A church whose primary purpose is to spread the gospel of jesus christ throughout the world.
To increase access to quality healthcare and improve the overall health of the community.
Organization is a ministry of Christs Church associated with the Presbyterian Church USA to provide retreats conferences and camp experiences that guide people to - and nurture them in - a transforming relationship with Jesus Christ and an…
Classical christian education for grades pre-school through twelfth grade.
To serve, support and promote charter schools in Florida.
Charting a course for living, learning, and earning with vision loss.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of West Central Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Florida School of Preaching. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 27 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SCHOOL OF PREACHING ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CLEARWATER COMMUNITY SAILING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL OF TAMPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds OPTIONS FOR WOMEN PREGNANCY HELP CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Swamp Mountain Bike Club 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.
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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 Denis L Fontaine Foundation 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.
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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