· Private foundation
Gulf Winds Cares 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $87k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MANNA FOOD PANTRIES | $26,849 |
| SACRED HEART FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| PENSACOLA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC | $20,000 |
| COUNCIL ON AGING OF WEST FLORIDA | $10,000 |
| RALLY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UWF FOUNDATION | $6,500 |
| ELDER CARE SERVICES INC | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA | $5,000 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| FORTIS INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST OF THE BIG BEND | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $5,000 |
| LOCKLIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- PHPENSACOLA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC4× · 2022–2025 · $70k · revenue +154%
- COCOUNCIL ON AGING OF WEST FLORIDA INC4× · 2022–2025 · $55k · revenue +0%
- SHSACRED HEART FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $55k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- NLNORTHWEST LINEMAN COLLEGEone grant, 2024 · $5k
- BSBISHOP STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $5k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KANSASone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Big brothers big sisters association of florida strengthens and expands evidence-based youth mentoring services statewide by providing resources, advocacy, and support to 11 local affiliates.
Our mission is to create and support mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
The big brothers big sisters mission is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
For over 40 years, bbbscfl has operated under the belief that the ability to succeed and thrive in life is inherent in every child. bbbscfl's roots began in 1975 under the leadership of community volunteers. serving orange, seminole,…
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America is the nation's premier mentoring organization. The Organization's vision is that all children achieve success in life. The Organization's mission is to provide children facing adversity with strong and…
To help children reach their potential through professionally supported one-to-one relationships with measurable impact.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. the organization's vision is that all youth achieve their full potential.
To provide quality mentors for children.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite and empower the promise of youth. we nurture children, strengthen communities and believe that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life.
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.
Our mission is to create a strong and enduring professionally supported 1:1 mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Our mission is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elder Care Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Monroeville Area Ymca. 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 44 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 50 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 PENSACOLA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON AGING OF WEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ELDER CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF THE BIG BEND INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds RALLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE BIG BEND INC ↗
- Who funds MONROEVILLE AREA YMCA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMILLE PLACE ↗
- Who funds UNITED FUND OF BREWTON AND EAST BRE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WEST FLORIDA 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: Gulf Winds Credit Union · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · International Paper Company Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Gulf Power Foundationinc · Dw McMillan Foundation · Landrum Family Foundation Inc · The Bear Family Foundation Inc · United Way of West Florida Inc · Sansing Foundation Inc · United Way of Northwest Florida Inc · The St Joe Community 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 Gulf Winds Cares 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.
- Elder Care Services Inc — 22% of income from government
- Council On Aging of West Florida Inc — 7% of income from government
- America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc — 6% of income from government
- United Way of West Florida Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Pensacola Habitat for Humanity 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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