· Private foundation
Gagnon Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $268k
- $250k+1 grant · $297k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INSPIRE EQUINE THERAPY PRORAM | $297,000 |
| CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN CENTER | $40,000 |
| RUTH ECKARD HALL INC | $32,400 |
| DIRECTIONS FOR LIVING | $30,000 |
| CLEARWATER MARINE AQUARIUM | $20,200 |
| WHEELCHAIRS 4 KIDS | $20,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| DALI MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| SOMEBODY CARES TAMPA BAY | $15,000 |
| THE ARC TAMPA BAY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MAKE A DIFFERENCE FISHING TOURNAMENT | $13,000 |
| BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER | $12,500 |
| TOYS FOR TOTS | $10,000 |
| ONE MORE CHILD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WINGS 4 RECOVERY | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +45% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- IAINSPIRED ACRES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $506k · revenue +568% · 53% of their budget
- DFDIRECTIONS FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC7× · 2017–2024 · $145k · revenue +280%
- TATHE ARC TAMPA BAY FOUNDATION INC4× · 2018–2024 · $45k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF BELIEVERS IN CHRIST JESUS INCone grant, 2021 · $200k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2022 · $25k
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INCone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +14%
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 Florida Aquarium's mission focuses on our Shared Purpose of a commitment to save marine wildlife, with a Vision to be Florida's leading conservation-based Aquarium. It accomplishes this mission through hosting over 1 million visitors…
Random Acts of Flowers improves the emotional health and well-being of individuals in healthcare facilities by delivering recycled flowers, encouragement, and personal moments of kindness.
Disability rights florida advocates, educates, investigates, and litigates to protect and advance the rights, dignity, equal opportunities, self-determination and choices for all people with disabilities.
To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.
Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…
Through photographic exhibits, the Heart Gallery of Tampa introduces our community to foster children awaiting adoptive families. We provide a platform to inspire our community to improve their quality of life and connect them with Forever…
To assist foster families, adoptive families, vulnerable youth and aged out teens with meals, groceries, and other needs in an effort to serve others.
To provide therapeutic horseback riding for children and adults with special needs.
The Corporation at all times shall be operated for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, and to carry out the purposes of Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida, Inc., a Florida not for profit corporation d/b/a Feeding Northeast…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Southern Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Camp Rusk 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.
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 26 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 54 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 INSPIRED ACRES INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECTIONS FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC TAMPA BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Wheelchairs 4 Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds Somebody Cares Tampa Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS DOWN SYNDROME SPECIAL NEEDS WEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds RYAN WELLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE A DIFFERENCE FISHING TOURNAMENT INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF PINELLAS INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Villages of America Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP RUSK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JAN STEPHENSON'S CROSSROADS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds ARMED FORCES FAMILIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The University of Tampa Incorporated ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SALVADOR DALI MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITY WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Cindys Pets Inc ↗
- Who funds READY FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA TOP DOG ALLSTARS INC ↗
- Who funds 360 EATS ↗
- Who funds QUEEN'S COURT INC SIMMS ↗
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: Pinellas Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Rays Baseball Foundation Inc · Vinik Family Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · The Ruth & J O Stone Foundation · Westphal Family Foundation Inc · White Family Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Gagnon Foundation Inc 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Hope Villages of America Inc — 2% of income from government
- Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
- Directions for Mental Health Inc — 1% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- 360 Eats — 0% of income from government
- Tampa Museum of Art 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.