· Private foundation
Dorothy B C Steves Char Ta
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER | $12,800 |
| FORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION INC | $7,500 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $7,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $5,000 |
| THE ARC SUNRISE OF CENTRAL FL | $5,000 |
| THE FINLEY PROJECT INC | $5,000 |
| EASTER SEALS FLORIDA INC | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| CHRISTIAN HOME AND BIBLE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SOUTHERN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $3,700 |
| CAMP WORDS UNSPOKEN | $2,500 |
| NEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE | $2,500 |
| MERCY FLIGHT SOUTHEAST INC | $2,500 |
| IDIGNITY | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +43% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 14 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
- FPFORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2025 · $54k · revenue +238%
- CCChristian Care Center Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $41k · revenue +1%
- ESEASTER SEALS FLORIDA INC6× · 2019–2025 · $29k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- UWUnited Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Incone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -57%
- GSGirl Scouts of Citrus Council Incone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -6%
- NBNEW BEGINNINGS OF LAKE COUNTYone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
The Organization's mission is to empower families in making their transition from homelessness to sustainable independence.
Ability 1st, the center for independent living of north florida, is a community-based, organization that provides services to persons with varying disabilities. our mission is to empower people with disabilities to live independently and…
To develop, manage and operate the First Step Shelter Program, a homeless assistance service program and shelter in Volusia County, Florida.
The corporation is organized for the purpose of permanently reducing the number of homeless individuals and families in the central florida region.
The mission of the florida center for the blind is to foster hope, confidence and independence in individuals with visual impairments; and to educate the community about preventing vision loss.
Provide guardian and guardianship services to indigent and developmentally disabled citizens with no family or friends to make medical or financial decisions for them in citrus, hernando, lake, sumter and marion counties.
To facilitate services, resources and partnerships to support people with disabilities and others we serve, along with their families, their caregivers and community members, in order to build more inclusive communities.
Part iii, line 1 to empower people with disabilities to attain equal opportunities in society by providing training, education, advocacy, and resources needed to live independently.
The organization's mission is to provide pro bono guardianship services and care management to indigent individuals with disabling conditions.
To provide homes for disadvantaged children.
Faith based organization providing foster care recruitment, training, licensing, and support to its foster parents and families throughout Hillsborough County and the surrounding areas.
Hope Services, Incorporated is an organization established to assist in transitioning disabled individuals into employable individuals and helping place them into jobs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mercy Flight Se Inc dba Angel Flight Southeast. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 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 FORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Care Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FINLEY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Lake Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds Central Florida Bible Camp Inc ↗
- Who funds IDIGNITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds Mercy Flight SE Inc dba Angel Flight Southeast ↗
- Who funds United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Citrus Council Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP WORDS UNSPOKEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Building Blocks Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Find Feed & Restore 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: Hunter Matthew & Mildred Char Ta · Hans and Cay Jacobsen Charitable Foundat · Mount Dora Community Trust · Williams M M & R P Fdn Ta · Barry C Warren Fdn Ta · Parker Irma & Orville Ch Tr Ta · Martin G Roxy & Eliz C Fdn Ta · United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc · Harper Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Charles B & Mary M McLin Foundation · Universal Orlando 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 Dorothy B C Steves Char Ta 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.
- Idignity Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc — 1% of income from government
- Southern Scholarship Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Mercy Flight Se Inc dba Angel Flight Southeast — 0% of income from government
- Building Blocks 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.