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Fun Spot America Foundation Inc at a glance

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Fun Spot America Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$77k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$207kInternational$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kArts & Culture$5kYouth Development$2kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $74k
$17,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$57k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$26,700
NATHANIEL'S HOPE INC$20,000
CAMARADERIE FOUNDATION$17,000
COOKIES FOR KIDS' CANCER$10,000
VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS UNDER 5000$3,052
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NATIONAL ROLLER COASTER MUSEUM ARCHIVE: $5k → 11%RUNWAY TO HOPE INC: $5k → 11%AUTISM SPEAKS INC: $30k → 13%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $27k → 13%GIVE KIDS THE WORLD: $2k → 13%ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $50k → 17%RUNWAY TO HOPE INC: $5k → 13%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $20k → 13%EXPERIENCE KISSIMMEE FLORIDA: $2k → 13%ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $25k → 17%AUTISM SPEAKS INC: $30k → 13%OSCEOLA COUNTY SHERIFF FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 13%ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $18k → 17%RUNWAY TO HOPE INC: $5k → 13%OSCEOLA COUNTY SHERIFF FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 13%AUTISM SPEAKS INC: $5k → 13%AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $2k → 13%COOKIES FOR KIDS' CANCER: $10k → 13%FOREVER WISHES INC: $1k → 13%CAMARADERIE FOUNDATION: $17k → 13%UCP OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $13k → 13%NATHANIEL'S HOPE INC: $20k → 13%NATHANIEL'S HOPE: $5k → 13%NATHANIEL'S HOPE: $5k → 13%NATHANIEL'S HOPE: $5k → 13%VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS UNDER 5000: $3k → 13%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.
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$267k · 6 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$267k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+26%

Still filing today

83%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthReligionPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureOther
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $93k · revenue +78%
  • RT
    Runway to Hope Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +78%
  • OC
    Osceola County Sheriff Foundation INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $13k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • UC
    UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue +26%
  • NR
    NATIONAL ROLLER COASTER MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -13%
  • GK
    GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +96%
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
Orlando Health Foundation Inc

The mission of the orlando health foundation is to support the strategic priorities of orlando health through philanthropy. this is accomplished through special events and annual major and planned gift fundraising efforts.

Health
2
Variety Children's Hospital

To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.

Health
3
Kids Beating Cancer Inc

Organization - kids beating cancer, inc., (kbc) is a nonprofit, nonstock florida corporation formed in 1992. kbc provides access to life-saving treatments through the science of cellular therapy and advancing pediatric innovative, novel,…

Human Services
4
Orlando Health Inc

Orlando health is a trusted leader inspiring hope through the advancement of health. our mission as a community-owned organization is to improve the health and quality of life of the individuals and communities we serve.

Health
5
Miami Children's Health System Inc

Nicklaus Children's Health System is the region's only healthcare system exclusively for children. Our mission is to inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child. TO PERFORM THE FUNCTIONS OF, OR TO…

Health
6
Super Heroes With Super Kids
Philanthropy
7
The Florida Center for Early Childhood Inc

The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…

Human Services
8
Jessica June Children's Cancer Foundation Inc

The mission of jessica june children's cancer foundation (the "organization") is to help children and their families fight cancer by providing emergency financial assistance for basic human necessities and supportive care services.…

Health
9
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…

Health
10
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
11
Chase the Victory Corporation

Our mission is to strengthen the support of families grieving the loss of a child, fighting childhood cancer, and inspire hope and kindness.

Human Services
12
Wipe Out Kids' Cancer Inc

Wipe out kids cancer offers comfort and hope to kids with cancer through support programs serving the entire family and funds innovative research leading to new discoveries and treatments in the fight against pediatric cancer. "support and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Give Kids the World Inc; the most unlike its peers is Osceola County Sheriff Foundation Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $92,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $65,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INCCAMARADERIE FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 · HealthCAMARADERIE FOUNDATION INCRunway to Hope Inc: $15,000 · HealthRunway to Hope IncUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $12,500 · HealthUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INCST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $46,700 · OtherST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSP…COOKIES FOR KIDS' CANCER: $10,000 · OtherCOOKIES FOR KIDS' CANCE…VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS UNDER 5000: $3,052 · Other+4 more: $6,850 · Other+4 moreNathaniel's Hope Inc: $35,000 · ReligionNathaniel's …Osceola County Sheriff Foundation INC: $13,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNATIONAL ROLLER COASTER MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$202,000Other$66,602Religion$35,000Public Safety & Disaster$13,000Arts & Culture$5,000

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 budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $92,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNathaniel's Hope Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCAMARADERIE FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetRunway to Hope Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetOsceola County Sheriff Foundation INC: $13,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ROLLER COASTER MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetGIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $1,975 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Fun Spot America Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fun Spot America Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • United Cerebral Palsy of Central Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Give Kids the World Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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

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How do I get to Fun Spot America Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Fun Spot America Foundation Inc 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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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