· Private foundation
Frank E Duckwall Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $153k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mote Marine Laboratory | $50,000 |
| Straz Center for the Performing Arts | $50,000 |
| Marie Selby Botanical Gardens | $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 |
| ZooTampa at Lowry Park | $12,500 |
| Dogs Inc | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 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 +58% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC6× · 2017–2025 · $295k · revenue +274%- TFThe Florida Aquarium Inc6× · 2017–2025 · $215k · revenue +88%
TAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC3× · 2022–2025 · $150k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- ULUSF Librariesone grant, 2020 · $20k
- TMTAMPA MUSEUM OF ART INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +354%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $15k
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.
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.
How this is measured
75 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. 75 of the 118 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 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Frank E Duckwall Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank E Duckwall Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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