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Gidel Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Gidel Family 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.

$260k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$251k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$261kPublic Benefit$188kEducation$150kYouth Development$31kRecreation & Sports$16kSocial Science$13kReligion$11kEnvironment$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $250k+1 grant · $251k
$250,621
Median grant
2
States reached
$52k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATION$250,621
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA$9,650
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $5k → 14%ROTARY OF SARASOTA SUNRISE FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 9%GUARDIAN AD LITEM FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY: $1k → 12%FLVS FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 13%CORPUS CHRISTI CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $2k → 13%BREAST CANCER AWARNESS: $200 → 15%FLORIDA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY: $25k → 16%JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE: $40k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $25k → 19%CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATION: $251k → 8%AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $5k → 14%RINGLING COLLEGE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $500 → 9%FLORIDA VICTORIOUS FOUNDATON: $6k → 15%FLORIDA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE: $27k → 19%IMPACT FOR LIVING: $1k → 19%CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $3k → 14%RINGLING COLLEGE: $500 → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $9k → 15%FLORIDA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE: $27k → 19%ST MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH: $10k → 9%FLORIDA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE: $25k → 19%OPERATION KINDNESS FLORIDA: $5k → 9%JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE: $20k → 19%LONGBOAT KEY GARDEN CLUB: $5k → 9%JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE: $15k → 19%LONGBOAT KEY GARDEN CLUB: $1k → 9%JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE: $15k → 19%GRACIE SWAN FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE: $10k → 19%OPERATION KINDNESS FLORIDA: $500 → 9%JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE: $10k → 19%SAVE OUR SEABIRDS: $1k → 9%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.
$588k · 8 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
17

Total granted

$588k
$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+35%

Still filing today

88%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentReligionSocial ScienceEnvironmentOther
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

  • TC
    THE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $261k · revenue +3%
  • TJ
    THE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $188k · revenue +104%
  • FP
    FLORIDA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +167%

Funded once

  • FP
    FLORIDA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +75%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $19k
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
Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc

To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…

Education
2
Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc

The mission of the florida atlantic university foundation inc. is to encourage, promote, and provide funds and other resources for the benefit of florida atlantic university (a part of the florida state university system) in furtherance of…

Education
3
Florida International University Research Foundation Inc

The fiu research foundation provides means by which discoveries, inventions, processes, and work products of faculty, staff and students of the university may be patented, developed, applied and utilized in order that the results of such…

Science & Tech
4
Florida College System Foundation

To secure and manage public and private resources to provide optimal benefit to florida's 28 colleges, thereby supporting students who are seeking a post-secondary education that will positively impact their lives and the future of their…

Education
5
Usf Research Foundation Inc

To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.

Education
6
Florida State University Research Foundation Inc

To promote, encourage and facilitate the research and training activities of faculty, staff and students of the florida state university through income from contracts, grants and other sources.

Education
7
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
8
University of Florida Leadership and Education Foundation Inc

The foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively to receive, hold, invest, and administer property and to make expenditures to or for the benefit of the university of florida. more specifically, the foundation is organized to…

Public Benefit
9
The Florida State University Foundation Inc

The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management. the fsu foundation accomplishes its mission by fostering…

Education
10
University of Miami
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11
Florida Memorial University Inc

Education - Florida Memorial University endeavors to instill in students the importance of becoming global citizens through lifelong learning, leadership, character, and service, which will enhance their lives and the lives of others.

Education
12
University of Florida Research Foundation Inc

To assist the university of florida in funding of research & development through grants & contractual arrangements & in the commercialization of intellectual properties, which include inventions, discoveries, processes, & work products.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Florida Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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

14 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. 14 of the 25 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC: $188,000 · OtherTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY…FLORIDA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · OtherFLORIDA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient: $19,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $16,400 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATIONUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA-FLORIDA BLUE KEY: $10,000 · OtherST MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH: $10,000 · Other+9 more: $19,200 · Other+9 moreTHE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATION: $260,621 · HealthTHE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATIONFLORIDA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · EducationFLORIDA POLYTECHN…THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF…University of Miami: $9,000 · EducationUniversity of Mia…+1 more: $2,500 · EducationCITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC: $30,650 · Youth DevelopmentAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $12,500 · Social ScienceLONGBOAT KEY GARDEN CLUB INC: $6,000 · EnvironmentSAVE OUR SEABIRDS INC: $1,000 · AnimalsImpact for Living Inc: $1,000 · Religion
Other$287,850Health$260,621Education$111,500Youth Development$30,650Social Science$12,500Environment$6,000Animals$1,000Religion$1,000

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 budgetTHE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATION: $260,621 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC: $188,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetFLORIDA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetCITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC: $30,650 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLONGBOAT KEY GARDEN CLUB INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetOPERATION KINDNESS FLORIDA INC: $5,500 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetFLVS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSAVE OUR SEABIRDS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetImpact for Living Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHero To A Child Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRINGLING COLLEGE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

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 25 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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