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Gries Family Foundation
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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k45 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $215k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STRAZ CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $214,784 |
| ENTERTAINMENT REVUE FOUNDATION | $28,200 |
| BULLARD FAMILY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| DERRICK BROOKS CHARITIES INC | $10,000 |
| DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA | $5,000 |
| BERKELEY PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CHARITY POLO CLASSIC | $4,500 |
| COASTAL CAROLINA HOCKEY ASSOCIATION | $1,545 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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, $169k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% 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 +72% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 40 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
University of South Florida Foundation Inc6× · 2018–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +74%
TAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC4× · 2021–2024 · $446k · revenue +118%- TCTHE CRISIS CENTER OF TAMPA BAY INC6× · 2018–2024 · $177k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- ERENTERTAINMENT REVUE HITS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $2.6M · 57% of their budget
- TFTBPAC FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $200k
- AFAKILAH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
Our mission is to generate social and economic impact throughout the tampa bay region by attracting, promoting and/or organizing youth and amateur sporting events and initiatives.
To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.
Break through cancer is a foundation dedicated to supporting translational research in the most difficult to treat cancers. our partner organizations are among the top cancer research centers and together, represent some of the most…
Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…
The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.
Accelerate and increase impact of scientific discoveries within cancer biology and oncology.
Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…
Established to help sustain the mission of florida polytechnic university to educate students emphasizing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (stem) in an innovative, technology-rich, and interdisciplinary learning environment.
See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.
The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…
The mission of the foundation is to raise funds and foster basic and translational research to identify genetic causes of specific cancers, understand how genes contribute to the disease, and use that understanding to help develop better…
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…
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 Debartolo Family 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 23 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 53% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 443 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 ENTERTAINMENT REVUE HITS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CRISIS CENTER OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds BULLARD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds DON'T EVER GIVE UP INC ↗
- Who funds STARTING RIGHT NOW ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION OF FL INC ↗
- Who funds DERRICK BROOKS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITY POLO CLASSIC INC ↗
- Who funds PLANT HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CROSS OUT CANCER ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE AIMEE COPELAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK YANKEES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS OF INDIAN ORIGIN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds DEBARTOLO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA MUSTANGS INC ↗
- Who funds WILMINGTON SEAHAWKS HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL OF TAMPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION 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: Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Vinik Family Foundation · New York Yankees Tampa Foundation Inc · Lightning Foundation · Copperhead Charities Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · Estell Alexander Charitable Trust · Tampa Bay Buccaneers Foundation Inc · Clark Family Fund Inc · Chris T Sullivan 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 Gries Family Foundation 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.
- The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Pepin Academies Inc — 2% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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.
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