· Private foundation
Dorothea and Fletcher Gleason Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUNGER NETWORK | $6,000 |
| OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH ALLIANCE (OCRA) | $5,000 |
| CURING JM FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE CLEVELAND CLINIC | $5,000 |
| DOGS INC | $5,000 |
| NIA PROGRAM YWCA | $5,000 |
| THE CLEVELAND CLINIC -OVARIAN & HEART RESEARCH | $5,000 |
| THE GATHERING PLACE | $5,000 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF TAMPA | $3,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
| MARY LEE'S HOUSE | $2,000 |
| HOLDEN FORESTS & GARDENS | $1,000 |
| CLEVELAND METROPARKS DEVELOPMENT OFFICE | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +38% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- FAFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC5× · 2017–2023 · $30k · revenue +198%
- TGTHE GATHERING PLACE6× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +2%
- GCGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC6× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- CMCELMA MASTRY OVARIAN CANCER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +115%
- CJCURE JM FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +29%
- TCTRINITY CAFE INCone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
Improve lives by eliminating hunger in partnership with our community.
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
The Humane Society of Tampa Bay is dedicated to ending animal homelessness and providing care and comfort for companion animals in need. Our vision is "Leading the way because every life counts". In 2025, we saved 10,631 animals.
Second harvest heartland's mission is to end hunger together. in partnership with more than 1,000 food shelves and hunger-relief programs in minnesota and western wisconsin, we provided 145 million meals to neighbors last year.
The humane society of manatee county leads the community in fostering compassion and respect for animals through quality care, education, and advocacy to improve the lives of animals and strengthen the human-animal bond.
Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater cincinnati offers a community of compassion, support and the comforts of home to families with critically ill children, steps away from the medical care they need.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…
Gleaners' mission is to be a leader in the fight against hunger. we do this by joining with others to optimize equitable access to nutritious food for those of us facing hunger and working to overcome the conditions causing food insecurity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lake Humane Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 29 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 TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Tampa Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED PLANT SAVERS ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JUDEO CHRISTIAN HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER NETWORK OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds MARY LEES HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CELMA MASTRY OVARIAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds CURE JM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FOSTERING HOPE ↗
- Who funds TRINITY CAFE 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 Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Dorothea and Fletcher Gleason 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.
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries 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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