· Private foundation
Dorothy Thomas 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $161k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $121k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES | $67,974 |
| SALESIAN SISTERS OF TAMPA | $53,524 |
| TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL | $37,071 |
| JUDEO CHRISTIAN HEALTH CLINIC | $34,382 |
| ZOO TAMPA | $23,913 |
| CENTRAL PARK VILLAGE SERVICES | $20,000 |
| ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| SALESIAN SISTERS OF TAMPA | $15,000 |
| MOSI | $10,407 |
| TAMPA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND | $5,000 |
| VILLA LA PAZ FOUNDATION | $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 (FY17–25, $623k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +110% since the first grant, against -39% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 3 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
METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $573k · revenue +131%- JCJUDEO CHRISTIAN HEALTH CLINIC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $239k · revenue +62%
- LPLowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $174k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- MOMUSEUM OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY INCone grant, 2017 · $51k · revenue -39%
- CPCENTRAL PARK VILLAGE YOUTH SERVICES INCone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -47%
- TMTAMPA MUSEUM OF ART INCone grant, 2024 · $11k · revenue 0%
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.
Orlando health is a trusted leader inspiring hope through the advancement of health. our mission as a community-owned organization is to improve the health and quality of life of the individuals and communities we serve.
Miami lighthouse through education, training, research, vision enhancement and as a center for learning provides hope, confidence, and independence for people of all ages. for nearly a century, miami lighthouse for the blind has been…
Discovering, preserving, and learning from our region's past to inform our common future. the history center includes three floors of permanent and temporary exhibition galleries focusing on 12,000 years of florida history.
The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…
To provide primary care and behavioral health services to children, adults, and families in south florida across a broad range of health services and community-based programs; and to oversee the coordinated child welfare system of care…
The mission of the orlando health foundation is to support the strategic priorities of orlando health through philanthropy. this is accomplished through special events and annual major and planned gift fundraising efforts.
Mtc empowers people with disabilities to lead the lives they choose through innovative, high-quality, vocational training and employment placement, day services, residential supports and life enrichment activities. (continued on schedule o)
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
Provides housing and support services to individuals and families impacted by hiv/aids
Quest's mission is to help people with developmental disabilities experience a full life. quest provides lifelong services to support children and adults with developmental disabilities.
Lindner center of hope (lcoh) is a mental health center staffed by a diverse team, united in the philosophy that by working together, we can best offer hope for people living with mental illness. the patients and their families are at the…
The mission at the Dunedin Fine Art Center is to enrich lives through educational experiences in the visual arts. The vision is to make the Dunedin Fine Art Center a leading visual art center providing unparalleled educational, cultural &…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alpha House of Pinellas County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Central Park Village Youth Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 17 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 METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds JUDEO CHRISTIAN HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc ↗
- Who funds DAWNING FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA HOUSE OF PINELLAS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK VILLAGE YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART 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: Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · The Saunders Foundation · Vinik Family Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Dorothy Thomas 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.
- Alpha House of Pinellas County Inc — 12% of income from government
- Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc — 0% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tampa Museum of Art 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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