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Dorothy B C Steves Char Ta

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$84k
Granted FY2026still arriving
14
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$166kEducation$75kHealth$63kYouth Development$60kHousing & Shelter$56kAnimals$29kFood & Nutrition$17kReligion$14kOther$0
02FY2026 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k13 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER$14,863
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA$7,500
FORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION INC$7,000
CHRISTIAN HOME AND BIBLE SCHOOL$6,185
SOUTHERN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$6,000
THE ARC SUNRISE OF CENTRAL FL$5,000
THE FINLEY PROJECT INC$5,000
NEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE$5,000
EASTER SEALS FLORIDA INC$5,000
EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LAKE COUNTY$5,000
LAKE CARE INC$5,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LAKE-SUMTER$5,000
ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTHEAST INC$5,000
CAMP WORDS UNSPOKEN$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–26, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER: $29k → 10%CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER: $15k → 10%CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER: $13k → 10%NEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE: $5k → 10%IDIGNITY: $4k → 13%NEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE: $3k → 10%IDIGNITY: $3k → 13%IDIGNITY: $3k → 13%IDIGNITY: $2k → 13%THE FINLEY PROJECT INC: $7k → 13%THE FINLEY PROJECT INC: $7k → 13%CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF FL: $4k → 13%NEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE: $4k → 10%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FL: $4k → 13%NEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE: $3k → 10%THE FINLEY PROJECT INC: $5k → 13%NEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE: $3k → 10%THE FINLEY PROJECT INC: $5k → 13%THE FINLEY PROJECT INC: $4k → 13%NEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE: $2k → 10%NEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE: $8k → 10%LAKE CARE INC: $5k → 10%LAKE CARE INC: $5k → 10%LAKE CARE INC: $4k → 10%LAKE CARE INC: $4k → 10%LAKE CARE INC: $3k → 10%LAKE CARE INC: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$537k · 21 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2026, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
8

Total granted

$537k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
-6%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationReligionHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FP
    FORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2026 · $61k · revenue +238%
  • CC
    Christian Care Center Inc
    3× · 2024–2026 · $56k · revenue +1%
  • ES
    EASTER SEALS FLORIDA INC
    7× · 2019–2026 · $34k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • UW
    United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -57%
  • GS
    Girl Scouts of Citrus Council Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -6%
  • NB
    NEW BEGINNINGS OF LAKE COUNTY
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Family Promise of Southeast Florida Inc

The Organization's mission is to empower families in making their transition from homelessness to sustainable independence.

Religion
2
Center for Independent Living of North Florida Inc

Ability 1st, The Center for Independent Living of North Florida, is a community-based organization that provides services to people with varying disabilities. Our mission is to empower people with disabilities to live independently and…

Human Services
3
First Step Shelter Inc

To develop, manage and operate the First Step Shelter Program, a homeless assistance service program and shelter in Volusia County, Florida.

Housing & Shelter
4
Homes for Independence Space Coast Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
5
West Volusia Habitat for Humanity Inc

Providing life-changing safe secure affordable homeownership opportunities for qualified deserving families.

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6
Central Florida Commission On Homelessness Inc

The corporation is organized for the purpose of permanently reducing the number of homeless individuals and families in the central florida region.

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7
Flagler Habitat for Humanity Inc

Flagler Habitat for Humanity, Inc is an ecumenical christian housing ministry whose mission is to eliminate substandard housing from Flagler County, and to make simple, decent, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action.

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8
Fifth Circuit Public Guardian Corporation

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.

Human Services
9
South Florida Guardianship Program Inc

The organization's mission is to provide pro bono guardianship services and care management to indigent individuals with disabling conditions.

Health
10
Affordable Housing Solutions for

Providing quality affordable housing for low and very-low income families.

—
11
Central Florida Childrens Home

To provide homes for disadvantaged children.

Human Services
12
West Florida Foster Care Services

Faith based organization providing foster care recruitment, training, licensing, and support to its foster parents and families throughout Hillsborough County and the surrounding areas.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Florida Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHRISTIAN CARE CENTER: $44,212 · OtherCHRISTIAN CARE CENTERTHE ARC SUNRISE OF CENTRAL FL: $30,500 · OtherTHE ARC SUNRISE OF CENTRAL FLRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES: $28,500 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIESCHRISTIAN HOME AND BIBLE SCHOOL: $22,185 · OtherCHRISTIAN HOME AND BIBLE SCHOOLBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $21,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICABOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL: $8,500 · Other+6 more: $22,750 · Other+6 moreChristian Care Center Inc: $56,194 · Human ServicesChristian Care Center IncTHE FINLEY PROJECT INC: $27,250 · Human ServicesTHE FINLEY PROJECT INCNEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $26,500 · Human ServicesNEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE I…Lake Cares Inc: $21,500 · Human ServicesLake Cares IncIDIGNITY INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesIDIGNITY INCTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $7,750 · Human ServicesFORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION INC: $60,500 · Youth DevelopmentFORWARD PATHS FOUN…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $32,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS…SOUTHERN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $38,500 · EducationSOUTHERN SCHO…EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $29,000 · EducationEDUCATIONAL F…EASTER SEALS FLORIDA INC: $33,500 · HealthEASTER SEA…Mercy Flight SE Inc dba Angel Flight Southeast: $12,500 · HealthMercy Flig…CAMP WORDS UNSPOKEN CORPORATION: $7,500 · HealthCAMP WORDS…Central Florida Bible Camp Inc: $14,000 · ReligionBuilding Blocks Ministries Inc: $3,000 · ReligionUnited Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc: $7,500 · PhilanthropyHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LAKE-SUMTER FLORIDA INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterFind Feed & Restore Inc: $2,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$177,647Human Services$150,194Youth Development$93,000Education$67,500Health$53,500Religion$17,000Philanthropy$7,500Housing & Shelter$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION INC: $60,500 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetChristian Care Center Inc: $56,194 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSOUTHERN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $38,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetEASTER SEALS FLORIDA INC: $33,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $32,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $29,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FINLEY PROJECT INC: $27,250 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetNEW VISION FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $26,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetLake Cares Inc: $21,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCentral Florida Bible Camp Inc: $14,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMercy Flight SE Inc dba Angel Flight Southeast: $12,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetIDIGNITY INC: $11,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $7,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAMP WORDS UNSPOKEN CORPORATION: $7,500 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetGirl Scouts of Citrus Council Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBuilding Blocks Ministries Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFind Feed & Restore Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Mercy Flight SE Inc dba Angel Flight Southeast ↗
  • Who funds IDIGNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc ↗
  • Who funds CAMP WORDS UNSPOKEN CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Girl Scouts of Citrus Council Inc ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LAKE-SUMTER FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds Building Blocks Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds Find Feed & Restore Inc ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Hunter Matthew & Mildred Char TaFL22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dorothy B C Steves Char Ta funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dorothy B C Steves Char Ta. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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