· Private foundation
Doris M Carter 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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $274k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TREASURE COAST FOOD BANK | $40,000 |
| World Central Kitchen INC | $35,000 |
| ST LUCIE COUNTY 4-H | $15,850 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $15,000 |
| WOMEN FORWARD INT'L | $15,000 |
| EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES | $15,000 |
| Holiday House SRQ INC | $15,000 |
| THE HOUSE OF HOPE INC | $15,000 |
| HEART MATH TUTOR | $15,000 |
| ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| CHILDREN'S GUARDIAN FUND | $15,000 |
| SEA TURTLE CONSERVANCY | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| REACH EDUCATION INC | $13,000 |
| SAFE CHILDREN COALITION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $251k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- CGCHILDREN'S GUARDIAN FUND9× · 2017–2025 · $212k · revenue +44%
ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $135k · revenue +12%
EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES INC7× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +150%
Funded once
- FOFLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHY SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $25k
DIRECT RELIEFone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +20%- WTWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +54%
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.
Lead agency in the community for providers of homeless/prevention services in manatee/sarasota. responsible to plan strategies with community partners, assist with grants, educate the public, advocate with local leadership, administer the…
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.
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.
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,…
Feeding Northeast Florida works to permanently end hunger in Northeast Florida by providing nutritious foods and other essential goods to people facing hunger, by addressing food insecurity, poverty and poor health through education and…
To prevent and reduce hunger and homelessness in central florida by equipping individuals and families to become self-sufficient through housing, outreach, prevention, and education.
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 end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
To champion a collaborative campaign to permanently connect, protect and restore the Florida Wildlife Corridor, a statewide network of lands and waters that supports wildlife and people. We combine conservation science with compelling…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
The Corporation at all times shall be operated for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, and to carry out the purposes of Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida, Inc., a Florida not for profit corporation d/b/a Feeding Northeast…
We unite the suncoast to protect and improve our waters through science-driven actions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Embracing Our Differences Inc and the most unlike its peers is Anacostia Watershed Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 48 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 CHILDREN'S GUARDIAN FUND ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE CHILDREN COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds TREASURE COAST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Heart Math Tutoring Inc ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FORWARD INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Sea Turtle Conservancy ↗
- Who funds TREASURE COAST MANATEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR SEABIRDS INC ↗
- Who funds Dc Food Project ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ALSO FOR GAY YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HOLIDAY HOUSE SRQ INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds REACH EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Welfare League of Arlington ↗
- Who funds THE FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK 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: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · Msc Foundation Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · Junior League of Sarasota Inc · Roberta Leventhal Sudakoff Foundation Inc · Annette J Hagens Memorial Foundation · Tarr Charitable Family Foundation Inc · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area
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 Doris M Carter 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.
- Anacostia Watershed Society Inc — 15% of income from government
- Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sea Turtle Conservancy — 1% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Safe Children Coalition Inc — 0% of income from government
- Harvest House Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Oceanographic Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens 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.