· Community foundation
Givewell Community Foundation Inc
The mission of givewell community foundation is to champion charitable giving to improve the quality of life in the areas we serve, both for now and for future generations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $282k
- $10k–50k177 grants · $3.9M
- $50k–250k46 grants · $5.4M
- $250k+33 grants · $54M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BARNETT BONNET SPRINGS DESIGNATED E | $7,895,940 |
| BONNET SPRINGS PARK | $7,764,880 |
| FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE | $6,935,082 |
| PARKER STREET MINISTRIES HOUSING FU | $4,100,000 |
| LAKELAND REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $3,026,205 |
| CAROL JENKINS BARNETT COMMUNITY END | $2,262,788 |
| YMCA OF WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA | $2,212,310 |
| NOW & FOREVER FUND (GWCF) | $1,935,895 |
| GCU FUND - PASS THRU GIFTS | $1,679,962 |
| FLORIDA ACHIEVEMENT SUPPORT TRUST A | $1,550,000 |
| ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $1,251,512 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $1,213,420 |
| ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF LAKELAND | $1,119,225 |
| POLK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $1,045,185 |
| THE SIGNATRY | $999,572 |
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, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% 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 +24% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
308 repeat relationships — 152 still active in FY2025, 156 since wound down; 105 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11M 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
- BSBONNET SPRINGS PARK INC8× · 2017–2025 · $41M · revenue ×13 · 44% of their budget
- FSFLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE8× · 2017–2025 · $20M · revenue +56%
- FPFLORIDA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $8.6M · revenue +81% · 63% of their budget
Funded once
- PSPARKER STREET MINISTRIES HOUSINGone grant, 2024 · $6.0M
- BSBONNET SPRINGS PARK REPAIR ANDone grant, 2023 · $6.0M
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY WEST POLK COUNTYone grant, 2024 · $2.1M
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.
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UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
Lutheran services florida brings god's healing, hope, and help to people in need in the name of jesus christ.
Community first credit union of florida's mission is to provide the highest in quality financial solutions for every stage of life.
The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.
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…
We continually convene a statewide community of committed leaders to enhance and recharge their leadership skills and to educate and inspire them to work across their strengths and diversities for a better florida. we engage floridians by…
Florida institute of technology's mission is to provide high-quality education to a culturally diverse student body in order to prepare students for entering the global workforce, seeking higher-education opportunities, and serving within…
Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Made for Dominion Ministries 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 36 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% 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.
330 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. 330 of the 608 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 BONNET SPRINGS PARK INC ↗
- Who funds GIVEWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATAPULT LAKELAND INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Central Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF LAKELAND INC ↗
- Who funds Lakeland Regional Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds POLK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA UNITED METHODIST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF POLK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds STETSON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds IDEA FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ALL SAINTS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds POLK THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ACHIEVEMENT SUPPORT TRUST ↗
- Who funds PRATT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PARKER STREET MINISTRIES INC AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds GOSPEL INC ↗
- Who funds LAKELAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds Desire Street Ministries ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HARMONY ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
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: United Way of Central Florida Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · George Jenkins Foundation Inc · Harrell Family Charities Inc · Glenn W & Hazelle Paxson Morrison Foundation Inc · Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation · The Campisi Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · The Libertore Fund for Children Inc · Iron Horse Family Foundation Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · Lakeland Area Chamber Foundation
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 Givewell Community 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
- Flagler Volunteer Services Inc — 29% of income from government
- United Way of Broward County Inc — 27% of income from government
- United Way Miami Inc — 23% of income from government
- United Way of Suwannee Valley Inc — 12% of income from government
- United Way Emerald Coast — 9% of income from government
- Central Florida Health Care Inc — 7% 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
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- Idea Florida Inc — 4% of income from government
- United Way of Marion County Inc — 4% of income from government
- United Way of North Central Florida Inc — 3% of income from government
- United Way of West Florida Inc — 3% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay Inc — 3% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Northwest Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Northeast Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Volusia-Flagler Counties Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% of income from government
- Stetson University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Spca Inc — 0% of income from government
- Heart of Florida United Way Inc — 0% of income from government
- Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc — 0% of income from government
- Lake Wales Care Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Faith Without Works Inc — 0% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Saint Leo University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay Inc — 0% of income from government
- Catapult Lakeland Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Southern College — 0% of income from government
- Sendmemissions Inc — 0% of income from government
- United Way of the Big Bend Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Webber International University — 0% of income from government
- The Florida Aquarium 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.