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Five Talent Fund at a glance

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Five Talent Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$79k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$72kReligion$72kEducation$62kHousing & Shelter$61kHuman Services$39kHealth$32kYouth Development$24kPhilanthropy$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $67k
$1,200
Median grant
6
States reached
$245k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMIGOS FOR CHRIST$22,000
MOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS$18,500
SHOULDER TO SHOULDER$15,000
TSIC OF SARASOTA COUNTY INC$11,000
STAR PROGRAMSPECTRUM HEALTH$3,500
Individual grant recipient$1,800
OUR DAILY BREAD$1,750
Individual grant recipient$1,200
AVENUE 941$1,000
MAYORS FEED THE HUNGRY$800
Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$302
ASSOCIATES APPRECIATION FUND$250
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$250
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS: $5k → 8%UMMHC PHILANTHROPY: $2k → 11%HOME START INC: $25k → 16%FCS FOUNDATION: $26k → 10%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $250 → 17%SARASOTA PRAYER BREAKFAST: $400 → 9%GOOD LIFE CHURCH: $500 → 10%BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS: $500 → 13%TERRAVIV INC: $300 → 16%STAR PROGRAMSPECTRUM HEALTH: $4k → 11%LIFE IMPACT MINISTRIES: $250 → 10%ISAIAH 117: $3k → 18%ASSOCIATES APPRECIATION FUND: $250 → 12%AMIGOS FOR CHRIST: $40k → 9%MOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS: $5k → 8%HOME START INC: $25k → 16%FLANZER PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $5k → 9%AVENUE 941: $7k → 10%AMIGO'S FOR CHRIST: $10k → 9%BOSTON TRINITY ACADEMY: $15k → 16%FLANZER PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $4k → 9%AVENUE 941: $5k → 10%HOME START INC: $7k → 16%FLANZER PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1k → 9%AVENUE 941: $1k → 10%BOSTON TRINITY ACADEMY: $13k → 16%SARASOTA PRAYER BREAKFAST: $270 → 9%LOVING HANDS MINISTRY: $33k → 10%HOME START: $300 → 16%MAYORS FEED THE HUNGRY: $800 → 9%LOVING HANDS MINISTRY: $29k → 10%SACRED HEART CHURCH: $100 → 16%BRIDGE A LIFE: $100 → 9%CRADLE TO COLLEGE: $5k → 10%LOVING HANDS MINISTRIES: $240 → 10%OUR DAILY BREAD: $5k → 10%MOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS: $19k → 10%FLANZER PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $7k → 10%LOUIS GLORIA FLANZER TRUST: $2k → 10%MENTORING OUTLAYS FOODMEALS & SUPPLIES: $2k → 10%VIOLET JONES: $740 → 10%NAHELY SIERRA: $250 → 10%CAROLINE CHAMBERS: $100 → 10%DAWN RAMSEYER: $30 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CA
CO
TN
NC
DC
GA
FL
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$284k · 14 repeat orgs$119k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
21

Total granted

$284k
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+57%

Still filing today

36%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalCommunity ImprovementEducationReligionYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • AF
    Amigos For Christ Inc
    3× · 2020–2024 · $72k · revenue +8%
  • HI
    HomeStart Inc
    4× · 2020–2023 · $57k · revenue +41%
  • BT
    BOSTON TRINITY ACADEMY INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $28k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • FF
    FCS Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $26k · revenue -39% · 53% of their budget
  • TS
    TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN MANATEE
    one grant, 2020 · $16k
  • CT
    CRADLE TO COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $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
Bradenton Missionary Village Inc
Housing & Shelter
2
Firm Foundation in Christ Ministries Inc

FFICM helps new believers build a firm foundation for their faith based on a strong relationship with Christ. FFICM programs teach how to follow up with new believers and enable them to have a strong relationship with Christ.

Religion
3
Miami Rescue Mission Inc

Our mission is to follow the Lord Jesus Christ's great commission by serving homeless & needy men, women & children. We provide emergency services & comprehensive residential programs to effect lasting change and empower people to become…

Housing & Shelter
4
Serving Beyond Borders

Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.

Human Services
5
Tampa Bay Christian Academy of Florida Inc

Partnering with families, TBCA exists to educate the mind, engage the heart, and empower students to change their world through a growing relationship with Jesus Christ for Gods and glory.

Education
6
The Master's Academy International Inc

The Master's Academy International, Inc. (TMAI) exists to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ in its ministry endeavors by serving and supporting strategically selected ministry training centers around the world which provide bible education and…

Religion
7
Vida Ministries Incorporated

To provide missionary services for the people of panama

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8
World Servants Inc

The mission of world servants is to display gods love to the world through church partnerships and gospel-centered service. the vision of world servants is connect churches in the usa to churches around the world with a shared goal of…

Community Improvement
9
Victory At Sarasota Inc

We are a church, food bank, outreach that ministers the love of Jesus to our city and the surrounding cities by preaching and teaching the word of God every Sunday. We also minister to anyone with a food need weekly through our food bank.…

Religion
10
Breakthrough Ministries Inc

Ministry programs provide opportunities for people to engage in the great commission and experience the kingdom of god first hand. we minister to homeless and those in extreme poverty. we bring hope, love and good news of christ to the…

Human Services
11
International Breakthrough Ministries Inc

Bible teaching and leadership training

Religion
12
Bread of Life Mission

Bringing hope, healing, and recovery to seattle's homeless through a christ-centered approach.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Loving Hands Ministries Inc; the most unlike its peers is Fcs Foundation. 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

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 46 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOVING HANDS MINISTRY INC: $61,500 · OtherLOVING HANDS MINISTRY INCTAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN MANATEE: $15,800 · OtherTAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN MANATEEFLANZER PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $15,600 · OtherFLANZER PHILANTHROPIC TRUSTSHOULDER TO SHOULDER: $15,000 · OtherSHOULDER TO SHOULDERMOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS: $10,000 · OtherMOTHERS HELPING MOTHERSMENTORING OUTLAYSFOODMEALSSUPPLIES: $6,775 · Other+28 more: $43,039 · Other+28 moreHomeStart Inc: $57,300 · Community ImprovementHomeStart IncMOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS INC: $18,500 · Community ImprovementMOTHERS HELPING MOTHE…+1 more: $250 · Community ImprovementAmigos For Christ Inc: $72,000 · InternationalAmigos For Christ In…+2 more: $350 · InternationalBOSTON TRINITY ACADEMY INC: $28,400 · EducationBOSTON TRIN…TSIC OF SARASOTA COUNTY INC: $11,000 · EducationTSIC OF SAR…FCS Foundation: $25,500 · HealthAVENUE941 INC: $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentRBC MINISTRIES: $8,675 · ReligionTERRAVIV INC: $300 · Religion
Other$167,714Community Improvement$76,050International$72,350Education$39,400Health$25,500Youth Development$12,500Religion$8,975

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 budgetAmigos For Christ Inc: $72,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHomeStart Inc: $57,300 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBOSTON TRINITY ACADEMY INC: $28,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFCS Foundation: $25,500 over 1y, 53% of budgetMOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS INC: $18,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAVENUE941 INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTSIC OF SARASOTA COUNTY INC: $11,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRBC MINISTRIES: $8,675 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOUR DAILY BREAD TAMPA BAY INC: $4,550 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTERRAVIV INC: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATES APPRECIATION FUND: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOVING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $240 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE A LIFE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Amigos For Christ Inc ↗
  • Who funds HomeStart Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON TRINITY ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds FCS Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS INC ↗
  • Who funds AVENUE941 INC ↗
  • Who funds TSIC OF SARASOTA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds RBC MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD TAMPA BAY INC ↗
  • Who funds TERRAVIV INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATES APPRECIATION FUND ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Five Talent Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Five Talent Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 20%
  • HomeStart Inc: 20% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Five Talent Fund?

Find your warmest path to Five Talent Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 46 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home