· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | $5,000 |
| LOCKLIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA | $5,000 |
| FORTIS INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST OF THE BIG BEND | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA | $5,000 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KANSASone grant, 2021 · $5k
- PSPENSACOLA STATE COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $5k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA BIRMINGHAMone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 50 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF THE BIG BEND INC ↗
- Who funds ELDER CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds RALLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONROEVILLE AREA YMCA ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE BIG BEND INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gulf Winds Cares Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gulf Winds Cares Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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