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Estell Alexander Charitable Trust
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 $10k5 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE STRAZ CENTER | $25,000 |
| ACADEMY OF THE HOLY NAMES | $25,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE BAY AREA POLICE CHIEF'S FOUNDAT | $10,000 |
| HANDS ACCROSS THE BAY | $10,000 |
| PHOENIX HOUSE FLORIDA | $5,250 |
| HOMELESSNESS EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM | $2,691 |
| STARTING RIGHT NOW | $1,200 |
| COFFEE UNITING PEOPLE | $1,000 |
| GLAZER CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $259 |
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 (FY17–22, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Estell Alexander Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +52% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
- SJST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL OF TAMPA FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $249k · revenue +994%
- JWJULIE WEINTRAUB'S HANDS ACROSS THE BAY INC5× · 2017–2021 · $113k · revenue +91%
TAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC4× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +22%
Funded once
NATIONAL PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +23%- TBTAMPA BAY AREA CHIEFS OF POLICEone grant, 2022 · $10k
- JHJESUIT HIGH SCHOOL OF TAMPA INCone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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…
The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.
To secure the financial future of services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities served by the arc tampa bay, inc. (continued on schedule o)this mission is accomplished through a comprehensive plan of building…
The family healthcare foundation's mission is to be the trusted leader in our community, ensuring access to high-quality healthcare for all in the tampa bay area. see also schedule o.
To promote a culture of environmental stewardship through volunteer and educational opportunities.
Through photographic exhibits, the Heart Gallery of Tampa introduces our community to foster children awaiting adoptive families. We provide a platform to inspire our community to improve their quality of life and connect them with Forever…
As the region's leading safety net hospital, tampa general hospital is committed to providing area residents with excellent and compassionate health care ranging from the simplest to the most complex medical services. our shared purpose:…
The tampa general hospital foundation exclusively operates for the purpose of raising funds to support the research, education and service mission of florida health sciences center, inc. dba tampa general hospital. tampa general is a 981…
Our purpose is to lead the continuum of care in collaboration with agencies in order to develop and provide innovative solutions to reduce and end homlessness in tampa-hillsborough county.
Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…
Our mission is to generate social and economic impact throughout the tampa bay region by attracting, promoting and/or organizing youth and amateur sporting events and initiatives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Club of Tampa Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Westchase Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 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. 20 of the 45 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 ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL OF TAMPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JULIE WEINTRAUB'S HANDS ACROSS THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds Tampa Bay Humane Society Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CRISIS CENTER OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Tampa Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds TRIBE- SEMINOLE HEIGHTS ↗
- Who funds A KID'S PLACE OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds The Florida Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds STARTING RIGHT NOW ↗
- Who funds Westchase Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE TIMOTHY INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TAMPA BAY 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: Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Sbj Resch Family Foundation Inc · Vinik Family Foundation · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · New York Yankees Tampa Foundation Inc · Frank E Duckwall Foundation · The Spurlino Foundation · Lightning Foundation · Pinellas Community Foundation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · Td Charitable 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 Estell Alexander Charitable Trust 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.
- The Centre for Women Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Florida Aquarium 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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