· Private foundation
Frank E Duckwall Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k22 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $153k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Marie Selby Botanical Gardens | $50,000 |
| Mote Marine Laboratory | $50,000 |
| Straz Center for the Performing Arts | $50,000 |
| H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center | $25,000 |
| The Poynter Institute | $25,000 |
| Tampa Arts Alliance | $20,000 |
| Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundatio | $15,500 |
| Hermitage Artist Retreat | $15,000 |
| Palladium Theater | $15,000 |
| Dogs Inc | $12,500 |
| ZooTampa at Lowry Park | $12,500 |
| Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc | $12,000 |
| Frameworks of Tampa Bay Inc | $8,500 |
| Florida Humanities Council | $7,500 |
| Florida Museum of Photographic Arts | $5,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $173k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% 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 +56% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 9 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC6× · 2017–2025 · $295k · revenue +260%- TFThe Florida Aquarium Inc6× · 2017–2025 · $215k · revenue +105%
TAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC3× · 2022–2025 · $150k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- ULUSF Librariesone grant, 2020 · $20k
- TMTAMPA MUSEUM OF ART INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +354%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $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 players theatre's mission is to entertain, educate, and engage the community in high quality live theatre.
The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.
Maintain and raise funds for the benefit of the tampa museum of art, inc.
The ringling is a place of art, architecture, and circus in an environment that inspires, educates, entertains, and honors the legacy of john & mable ringling.
To provide educational displays and information on art in our area and to provide scholarships.
To promote a culture of environmental stewardship through volunteer and educational opportunities.
St Petersburg Arts Alliance is the umbrella organization serving the arts and cultural community: advocating for the arts; facilitating the growth of the arts community; and driving arts-related economics development in St Petersburg and…
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
The bay park conservancy (bpc) was formed to implement the master plan approved by the sarasota city commission to conserve 53 acres of public land for a signature park along sarasota bay. the bpc entered a long-term partnership with the…
To market and promote the Hillsborough County destination to tourists nationally and internationally.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Tampa Theatre Inc a/K/a Tampa Theatre Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Birds in Helping Hands. 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 33 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
75 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. 75 of the 118 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 MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds The Florida Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds University of South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds The State College of Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA METROPOLITAN AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC ↗
- Who funds SALVADOR DALI MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE TAMPA THEATRE INC A/K/A TAMPA THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STAGEWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC ↗
- Who funds GASPARILLA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PINES OF SARASOTA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL OF TAMPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF TAMPA INC ↗
- Who funds Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc ↗
- Who funds Eckerd College ↗
- Who funds Chapters Health System Inc ↗
- Who funds FRAMEWORKS OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds THE CHISELERS INC ↗
- Who funds Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS OF ST PETERSBURG FLORIDA 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: Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Vinik Family Foundation · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Pinellas Community Foundation · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Clark Family Fund Inc · Rays Baseball Foundation Inc · The Saunders Foundation · Lightning Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · New York Yankees Tampa Foundation Inc · The Spurlino 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 Frank E Duckwall Foundation 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.
- Children First Inc — 100% of income from government
- Florida Humanities Council Inc — 100% of income from government
- Tampa Bay Wave Inc — 100% of income from government
- Tampa Family Health Centers Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Centre for Women Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay Inc — 6% of income from government
- Tampa Metropolitan Area Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- Academy Prep Center of Tampa Inc — 3% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Children's Home Inc — 0% of income from government
- Eckerd College — 0% of income from government
- Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc — 0% of income from government
- Harvest House Inc — 0% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — 0% of income from government
- Friends of the Arts & Humanities Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tampa Museum of Art Inc — 0% of income from government
- Macdonald Training Center Inc — 0% 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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