· 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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| THE FREEDOM TOUR INC | $150,000 |
| PARKER STREET MINISTRIES | $150,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES INC | $138,000 |
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 (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 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of George Jenkins Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 65% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you 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
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
- 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
- AFAMERICAS FUTURE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +35%
- TYTHE YMCAone grant, 2024 · $500k
- TOTORCH OF FREEDOM FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +34%
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Burro Bueno. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, 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; 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 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 JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAS FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds REDLANDS CHRISTIAN MIGRANT ASSOCIATION 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 TORCH OF FREEDOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIANVICA RIDING ACADEMY 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: 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
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 George Jenkins 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.
- 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
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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