· Public charity
Heart of Florida United Way Inc
The mission of heart of florida united way is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our communities.
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.
The 71 grants below total $3,426,522 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,149,153 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,722,631 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $633k
- $50k–250k29 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARNOLD & WINNIER PALMER FOUNDATION | $250,221 |
| THE SHARING CENTER | $169,270 |
| OSCEOLA COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING | $143,583 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $142,358 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF ORANGE COUNTY | $125,000 |
| SENIORS FIRST | $118,869 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $110,159 |
| LGBT CENTER ORLANDO | $105,438 |
| CITY YEAR ORLANDO | $100,000 |
| THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $97,088 |
| HARBOR HOUSE | $93,918 |
| COMMUNITY COORDINATED CARE FOR CHILDREN | $85,000 |
| EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF SEMINOLE | $85,000 |
| HELP NOW OSCEOLA | $80,959 |
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, $9.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
97 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 16 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $590k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +15%
- TCTHE CHRISTIAN SHARING CENTER INC8× · 2018–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +97%
- CFCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +228%
Funded once
- VCValencia Collegeone grant, 2022 · $1.0M
- HSHEALTHY START COALITION OF ORANGE COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +60%
- TDThe Devereux Foundationone grant, 2017 · $142k · revenue +14%
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 corporation is organized for the purpose of permanently reducing the number of homeless individuals and families in the central florida region.
Orlando health is a trusted leader inspiring hope through the advancement of health. our mission as a community-owned organization is to improve the health and quality of life of the individuals and communities we serve.
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 provide exceptional dialysis care and services to individuals with end-stage kidney disease throughout central florida. we are dedicated to expanding access to treatment and ensuring all those in need receive quality…
The mission of ability housing is to build flourishing communities where everyone has a home. its vision is a society where housing is a right, not a privilege; and all individuals have safe, affordable housing in vibrant communities. it…
Orlando Center for Justice, Inc.s mission is to bridge the access to justice gap in Florida for newcomers by helping these underserved communities navigate the legal system through education and innovation. We also walk alongside them,…
Orlando health central is a trusted leader inspiring hope through the advancement of health. our mission is to improve the health of our community by providing safe, quality healthcare services in an atmosphere of caring.
The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…
The mission of heart of florida united way is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our communities. this is accomplished by standing up for the health, education, and financial stability of every person in central florida.
Organization mission: florida's children first is a non-profit, nonpartisan, independent advocacy organization committed to protecting and advancing the rights of children and youth impacted by the child welfare, juvenile justice, and…
Our mission is "delivering care that changes people's lives"
To promote policies that build effective primary prevention and early intervention systems of support for florida's children and families by engaging and enhancing the collective strengths of the individual children's services councils of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Care Center for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Be a Player 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 35 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
148 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. 148 of the 166 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COORDINATED CARE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN SHARING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Osceola County Council on Aging Inc ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW IMAGE YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds AdventHealth Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Health Care Center For The Homeless Inc ↗
- Who funds Orlando Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Harbor House of Central Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds Seniors First Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SEMINOLE COUNTY COALITION FOR SCHOOL READINESS INC ↗
- Who funds SEMINOLE COUNTY VICTIMS' RIGHTS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds HELP NOW OF OSCEOLA INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO COMMUNITY & YOUTH TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Grace Medical Home Inc ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ETC INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER FOR CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUE OUTREACH MISSION OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL FLORIDA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SEMINOLE CO BAR ASSOC LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO DAY NURSERY ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER ORLANDO INC ↗
- Who funds EDGEWOOD CHILDREN'S RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds WINTER PARK DAY NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds EMBRACE FAMILIES COMMUNITY BASED CARE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL 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: Central Florida Foundation · Adventist Health SystemSunbelt Inc · The Dr P Phillips Foundation · Orlando Health Inc · Universal Orlando Foundation Inc · Magruder Chesley G Fdn Im · The Lee Foundation · Orlando Magic Youth Foundation Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · Acahand Foundation · The Chatlos Foundation Inc · The Galloway 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 Heart of Florida United Way 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.
- Homeless Services Network of Central Florida Inc — 87% of income from government
- Center for Independent Living in Central Florida Inc — 65% of income from government
- Help Now of Osceola Inc — 48% of income from government
- Health Care Center for the Homeless Inc — 34% of income from government
- Harbor House of Central Florida Inc — 24% of income from government
- Osceola County Council on Aging Inc — 22% of income from government
- Community Coordinated Care for Children Inc — 19% of income from government
- Meals On Wheels Etc Inc — 18% of income from government
- United Cerebral Palsy of Central Florida Inc — 13% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Community Health Centers Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- The Christian Sharing Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Impower Inc — 5% of income from government
- Orlando Science Centerinc — 4% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of Central Florida Inc — 3% of income from government
- Aspire Health Partners Inc — 2% of income from government
- Central Florida Council Boy Scouts of America Inc — 2% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Volusia-Flagler Counties Inc — 2% of income from government
- After School Programs Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc — 1% of income from government
- United Way of Indian River County Inc — 1% of income from government
- United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% of income from government
- United Arts of Central Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- United Way of Brevard County Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Servants Heart Ministry Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Stetson University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hope Community Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.