· Private foundation
Harrell Family Charities Inc
Its FY2021 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 FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k4 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $330k
- $250k+5 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKELAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $3,025,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,600,000 |
| FLORIDA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $2,000,000 |
| LAKELAND REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $2,000,000 |
| GOSPEL INC | $1,100,000 |
| SEEJESUS NET | $110,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $60,450 |
| A WOMAN'S CHOICE INC | $55,000 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST POLK COUNTY | $55,000 |
| INHERITANCE OF HOPE | $50,000 |
| VISTE | $30,000 |
| FLORIDA BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME | $30,000 |
| MISSION TO THE WORLD | $29,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES INC | $25,000 |
| ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF LAKELAND INC | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% 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 +52% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2021, 21 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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
- LCLAKELAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC4× · 2017–2021 · $5.1M · revenue +37%
- GIGOSPEL INC2× · 2017–2021 · $1.1M · revenue ×13 · 30% of their budget
- FSFLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE3× · 2017–2020 · $404k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- BSBONNET SPRINGS PARK INCone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -49%
THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +56%- LCLAKELAND CHAMBER FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $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.
The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…
We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…
The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.
See schedule othe primary mission of graceland university is to be a learning community, where students develop their potential for meaningful and productive lives through intellectual, physical, social and spiritual growth. this mission…
Lubbock christian university is a christ-centered, academic community of learners, transforming the hearts, minds, and hands of students for lives of purpose and service.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Palm beach atlantic university equips students to grow in wisdom, lead with conviction and serve god boldly.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Pacific school of religion prepares a diverse cadre of spiritually rooted leaders with the vision, resilience, and skill to create a world where all can thrive. grounded in the rigorous study and faithful practice of progressive christian…
Connected polk is committed to transforming polk county's educational landscape by engaging the business community. connected polk's mission is to enhance high school and post-secondary graduates' preparedness, making polk county a premier…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Florida Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Iconicity 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 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% 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 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.
47 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. 47 of the 82 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 LAKELAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds GOSPEL INC ↗
- Who funds BONNET SPRINGS PARK INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CATAPULT LAKELAND INC ↗
- Who funds SEEJESUSNET INC ↗
- Who funds PARKER STREET MINISTRIES INC AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds A WOMAN'S CHOICE INC ↗
- Who funds Youth for Christ of Polk County Inc ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds INHERITANCE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE TO THE ELDERLY INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL FLORIDA SPEECH & HEARING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TOP BUTTONS INC ↗
- Who funds LAKELAND VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN STUDY CENTER OF GAINESVILLE I ↗
- Who funds Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF LAKELAND INC ↗
- Who funds Care Net ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF GREATER LAKELAND INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Central Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
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: Givewell Community Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · United Way of Central Florida Inc · Glenn W & Hazelle Paxson Morrison Foundation Inc · George Jenkins Foundation Inc · Lola Mann Memorial Fund · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · Lakeland Area Chamber Foundation · Polk Sheriff's Charities Inc · The Campisi Family Foundation Inc · Iron Horse Family Foundation Inc · Agamerica Giving 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 Harrell Family Charities 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.
- Greater Tampa Bay Area Council Inc Boy Scouts of America — 8% of income from government
- Academy Prep Center of Lakeland Inc — 4% of income from government
- Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc — 0% of income from government
- Catapult Lakeland Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Southern College — 0% of income from government
- Onbikes 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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