· Private foundation
George Jenkins 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.
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 $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $38k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+9 grants · $4.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC | $1,066,200 |
| ACADEMY PREP OF LAKELAND | $750,000 |
| LAKELAND REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $562,500 |
| YMCA OF WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA | $500,000 |
| KIDSPACK | $350,000 |
| VISTE | $300,000 |
| BONNET SPRINGS PARK | $300,000 |
| REDLANDS CHRISTIAN MIGRANT ASSN | $300,000 |
| CITY LORE INC | $250,000 |
| LAKELAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMY | $200,000 |
| HELPING A HERO ORG | $183,334 |
| PARKER STREET MINISTRIES | $150,000 |
| THE FREEDOM TOUR INC | $150,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES INC | $138,000 |
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, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of George Jenkins Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 65%.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.
46 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 8 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $852k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- APACADEMY PREP FOUNDATION INC6× · 2018–2023 · $7.7M · revenue +64% · 91% of their budget
- UWUnited Way of Central Florida Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $5.1M · revenue +25%
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM4× · 2021–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +52%
Funded once
- TYTHE YMCAone grant, 2024 · $500k
- AFAMERICAS FUTURE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +35%
- TOTORCH OF FREEDOM FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +34%
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.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
Hospice of martin & st. lucie, inc. exists to provide hospice, grief counseling, education and other services to patients and families, dealing with death and dying so that they might live as fully and comfortably as possible. hospice…
Lutheran services florida brings god's healing, hope, and help to people in need in the name of jesus christ.
Charting a course for living, learning, and earning with vision loss.
To enable individuals to remain in their homes by supporting compassionate, effective, life-enhancing health and supportive services. at this time, hfk care corporation is inactive.
The mission of royal palm academy is to partner with families to provide an education of rich academics with catholic formation. we teach the mind, educate the heart, and form the character of tomorrow's leaders.
Hospice of the treasure coast, inc. exists to provide hospice, grief counseling, education and other services to patients and families dealing with death and dying so that they might live as fully and comfortably as possible.
See schedule o for a complete description of the organization's mission
The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.
Suncoast hospice's mission is to be the center to improve life for those touched by advanced illness, death, dying, grief, bereavement and other end-of-life issues.
The mission of santafe healthcare, inc. is to serve as the not-for-profit system parent for its family of not-for-profit, mission-driven, affiliate organizations. see schedule o for continuation of the organization's mission. santafe…
We, holy cross hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. holy cross hospital is a member of trinity health.
How this is measured
64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 96 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 ACADEMY PREP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Central Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds LAKELAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PARKER STREET MINISTRIES INC AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE TO THE ELDERLY INC ↗
- Who funds KID PACK INC ↗
- Who funds Lakeland Regional Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Helping a HeroOrg ↗
- Who funds PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC ↗
- Who funds ANCHOR HOUSE INC OF POLK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Geneva Classical Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKELAND VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE WALES CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BONNET SPRINGS PARK INC ↗
- Who funds CITY LORE INC ↗
- Who funds REDLANDS CHRISTIAN MIGRANT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAS FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIVEWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE FREEDOM TOUR INC ↗
- Who funds TIANVICA RIDING ACADEMY 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: Givewell Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Florida Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Glenn W & Hazelle Paxson Morrison Foundation Inc · Harrell Family Charities Inc · The Campisi Family Foundation Inc · Iron Horse Family Foundation Inc · Lakeland Area Chamber Foundation · Lola Mann Memorial Fund · Blanton Charitable Foundation Inc · Cps Cares Inc · Florida's Natural Growers Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization George Jenkins Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George Jenkins Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Redlands Christian Migrant Association Inc: 51% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida: 6% of income from government
- Academy Prep Center of Lakeland Inc: 4% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc: 2% of income from government
- Lake Wales Care Center Inc: 0% of income from government
- Anna Maria Island Turtle Watchinc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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