· Public charity
Florida Sports Foundation Incorporated
To promote and develop professional, amateur, and participatory sports for the citizens of florida and attract out of state visitors through sports, thus creating significant economic benefit for florida.
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.
The 22 grants below total $3,511,029 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,766,594 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $255,565 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k10 grants · $305k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $884k
- $250k+5 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER MIAMI CVB | $659,870 |
| TAMPA BAY SPORTS COMMISSION | $596,636 |
| ORANGE BOWL COMMITTEE | $409,858 |
| PALM BEACH COUNTY SPORTS COMMISSION | $371,808 |
| POLK COUNTY | $284,051 |
| OSCEOLA CVB DBA EXPERIENCE KISSIMMEE | $239,378 |
| PANAMA CITY BEACH CVB | $140,000 |
| MANATEE COUNTY BCC | $122,500 |
| TREASURE COAST SPORTS COMMISSION | $108,607 |
| CENTRAL FL SPORTS COMMISSION | $101,875 |
| GREATER FT LAUDERDALE SPORTS | $100,000 |
| PENSACOLA SPORTS ASSOCIATION | $71,237 |
| LEE COUNTY SPORTS DEVELOPMENT | $49,500 |
| VISIT ORLANDO | $43,800 |
| CHARLOTTE CTY BOCC | $40,172 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of your 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 +33% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 12 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
- OCOSCEOLA CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +64%
- OBOrange Bowl Committee Inc5× · 2019–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +17%
- FCFLORIDA CITRUS SPORTS EVENTS INC4× · 2017–2020 · $1.6M · revenue +3%
Funded once
- SFSouth Florida Super Bowl Host Committeeone grant, 2017 · $1.5M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- MSMIAMI SUPER BOWL HOST COMMITTEE INCone grant, 2021 · $750k · revenue -83%
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.
To promote visitation to florida by strengthening florida's share of the global travel market with the goal of maximizing the economic impact of travel and tourism to florida.
To organize, promote and manage the citrus bowl and use such game to increase community spirit and pride, promote tourism and stimulate the local economy while ultimately benefitting charities, educational institutions and the florida…
To promote and develop professional, amateur, and participatory sports for the citizens of florida and attract out of state visitors through sports, thus creating significant economic benefit for florida.
To market and promote the Hillsborough County destination to tourists nationally and internationally.
Operation, promotion, direction, supervision, and regulation of interscholastic athletics of member high schools in florida.
Gator bowl sports inc's mission is to provide northeast florida with the very best in college athletics and related activities in order to maximize positive impact on the area's economy, national image, and community pride and to foster…
The mission of the orlando sports foundation, inc. is to promote and provide well organized and efficient athletic and social events in the central florida community to support and contribute to charitable and youth organizations with the…
To be the essential resource and leading advocate for the sports events and tourism industries.
The cincinnati usa convention & visitors bureau is an aggressive sales, marketing, and service organization. our primary responsibility is to positively impact the region's area economy through convention, tradeshow and visitor…
Selectflorida is the state of florida's official international commerce organization, serving as a catalyst for economic development, economic diversification into targeted industries, and high-wage job creation for floridians.
Mission is to bid recruit & host regional/national sporting events at all levels of competition for the purpose of utilizing sports facilities in the state. thereby enhancing the economic development of the state, generally improving…
Attract, promote, and advance travel & tourism's positive impact on miami county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Florida Sports Commission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Motorsports Charities Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 42 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 TAMPA BAY SPORTS COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds OSCEOLA CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds Orange Bowl Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA CITRUS SPORTS EVENTS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI CONVENTION & VISITORS ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL FLORIDA SPORTS COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH COUNTY SPORTS COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds MIAMI SUPER BOWL HOST COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds ORLANDOORANGE COUNTY CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds PENSACOLA SPORTS ASSOCIATION INC FKA PENSACOLA SPORTS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PANAMA CITY BEACH CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU ↗
- Who funds GAINESVILLE SPORTS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES TENNIS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Jacksonville and the Beaches ↗
- Who funds MOTORSPORTS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds PENSACOLA SPORTS ASSOCIATION 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: Central Florida Behavioral Health Network Inc · Florida Tourism Industry Marketing Corp Inc · Florida Humanities Council Inc · Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc
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 Florida Sports Foundation Incorporated 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.
- Orange Bowl Committee 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.