· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OCOSCEOLA CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +46%
- 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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 42 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Florida Sports Foundation Incorporated funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Florida Sports Foundation Incorporated. Bigger dots raise more.
- Orange Bowl Committee Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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