· Private foundation
Edward T Gardner Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE | $20,000 |
| ST LUCIE COUNTY FIRE DISTRICT | $7,500 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $7,250 |
| CAMP BARNES | $6,000 |
| FAMILY MEALS INC | $5,500 |
| SEAMENS CENTER OF WILMINGTON | $5,000 |
| RYLIE'S SMILE FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| HANDS OF SAINT LUCIE COUNTY | $4,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ST LUCIE COUNTY | $4,250 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $3,600 |
| A E BACKUS MUSEUM & GALLERY | $3,500 |
| DAYTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| SUNRISE THEATRE FOUNDATION | $2,700 |
| FRIENDS OF ST LUCIE COUNTY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC | $2,700 |
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 (FY20–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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 +48% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +48%- UOUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +39%
- CBCAMP BARNES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $22k · revenue +272%
Funded once
- RCRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +21%
- HFHope Family Services Incone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +17%
- CCCommunity Coalition on Homelessness dba Turning Pointsone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -22%
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.
Empowering families with chidren to achieve permanent and stable self-sufficiency by providing case management; nutritious meals; and educational, health and career resources; in a safe and secure environment.
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…
With compassion and respect, St. Pete Free Clinic changes lives by providing health care, nutritious food, recovery housing, and education for our neighbors in need.
Hunger relief for the indigent. The South County Food Pantry provides food to families and individuals in the Venice, Nokomis, Laurel & Osprey, areas of FL. SCFP distributes to more than 400 family units per month.
The players theatre's mission is to entertain, educate, and engage the community in high quality live theatre.
To truly make a difference in the lives of St. Johns County homeless families with minor children by providing housing and services required for them to remain intact, stabilize their lives, save money, move into permanent housing, and…
The mission of meals on wheels plus of manatee, inc. is to assist individuals to live independently by providing nutrition and caring supportive services.
The organization's mission is to identify and invest in workforce development solutions to meet the needs of manatee and sarasota counties.
The safe children coalition's mission is to protect children and youth, strengthen families, and build community.
We strive to end hunger and food waste in the Tampa Bay community through innovative solutions that rescue and redistribute fresh, healthy surplus food, while also providing job training for those facing employment barriers.
The mission of south brevard sharing center, inc. is to support, strengthen, and empower families to achieve self-sufficiency. this is accomplished by providing temporary short-term emergency assistance to indigent families when federal,…
The Spring of Tampa Bay prevents domestic violence, protects victims and promotes change in lives, families and communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Coalition on Homelessness dba Turning Points and the most unlike its peers is Our Daily Bread Tampa Bay Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 26 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 FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP BARNES INC ↗
- Who funds SEAMEN'S CENTER OF WILMINGTON INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Family Meals Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT 180 SARASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds AE BEAN BACKUS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ST LUCIE COUNTY LIBRARY ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Coalition on Homelessness dba Turning Points ↗
- Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF STLUCIE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE WAY VILLAGE 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 - Martin / St Lucie 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 Edward T Gardner 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.
- Hope Family Services Inc — 40% of income from government
- Camp Barnes Inc — 13% of income from government
- Grace Way Village Inc — 4% of income from government
- Florida Studio Theatre 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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