· Private foundation
First Federal 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k44 grants · $440k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF SUWANNEE VALLEY | $10,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF ALACHUA COUNTY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| RAHEEM ANTHONY FUNDERBURK-GONZALEZ | $10,000 |
| SUWANNEE VALLEY 4CS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% 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 +27% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 59 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, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $503k 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
- HHHOPEFUL HORIZONS3× · 2022–2024 · $16k · revenue +5%
- VVVIVID VISIONS INC2× · 2022–2024 · $14k · revenue +23%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF TAMPA BAY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- NCNORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA HOSPICE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $51k · revenue +98%
- GOGainesville Opportunity Center Incone grant, 2024 · $18k · revenue -13%
- GHGAINESVILLE HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $15k
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 corporation is organized for the purpose of permanently reducing the number of homeless individuals and families in the central florida region.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
The homeless services network of central florida is the lead agency for the hud continuum of care supportive housing program, shelter, and care funding for osceola, seminole, and orange counties including the city of orlando. it…
Providing quality affordable housing for low and very-low income families.
To promote economic mobility by helping people living in poverty achieve self-sufficiency.
Preventing child abuse, restoring healing, and strengthening all children and their families through advocacy, treatment, and shelter.
To promote partnerships that will reduce and prevent homelessness in citrus, hernando, lake, and sumter counties.
To increase access to quality healthcare and improve the overall health of the community.
Charitable or educational purposes related to services for persons experiencing homelessness and persons at risk of homelessness in the service area. in pursuance of the foregoing purposes, vfcch shall facilitate and coordinate the…
To promote policies that build effective primary prevention and early intervention systems of support for florida's children and families by engaging and enhancing the collective strengths of the individual children's services councils of…
Tri-county human services shall endeavor to provide an array of highquality human services consistent with the needs of the community.services shall be provided in a cost effective, ethical, andprofessional manner and shall focus on…
United Way envisions a community of opportunity where everyone has hope and can reach their full potential. United Way's mission is to solve Northeast Florida's toughest challenges by connecting people, resources and ideas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gulf Coast Children's Advocacy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Baker County Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 158 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Suwannee Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds Gainesville Opportunity Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds VIVID VISIONS INC ↗
- Who funds PEACEFUL PATHS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HERITAGE PARK & GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF ALACHUA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BAY COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING 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: Clay Electric Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Community Foundation of North Central Florida · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · United Way of North Central Florida Inc · State Chartered Credit Unions in Florida · The St Joe Community Foundation Inc · Capital City Bank Group Foundation Inc · Smurfit Westrock US Foundation F/K/A Westrock Foundation · United Way of Suwannee Valley Inc · United Way of Northwest Florida Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida 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 First Federal 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.
- Gulf Coast Children's Advocacy Center Inc — 51% of income from government
- Child Advocacy Center Inc — 40% of income from government
- Peaceful Paths Inc — 39% of income from government
- Another Way Inc — 36% of income from government
- Vivid Visions Inc — 32% of income from government
- Basic Nwfl Inc — 23% of income from government
- Anchorage Children's Home of Bay County Inc — 14% of income from government
- United Way of Suwannee Valley Inc — 12% of income from government
- Arnette House Inc — 7% of income from government
- Cds Family & Behavioral Health Services — 4% of income from government
- United Way of Marion County Inc — 4% of income from government
- United Way of North Central Florida Inc — 3% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay Inc — 0% of income from government
- Gainesville Opportunity Center 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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