· Public charity
Hillsborough County Bar Foundation
The foundation is operated for charitable,scientific and educatioanl purposes.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VOICES FOR CHILDREN | $20,000 |
| THE SPRING OF TAMPA BAY | $20,000 |
| CORSSROADS FOR FLORIDA KIDS | $20,000 |
| BAY AREA LEGAL SERVICES INC | $15,000 |
| WFCTA - JUSTICE RESTORATION CENTER | $12,500 |
| ST MICHAEL'S LEGAL FOR WOMEN & CHI | $12,500 |
| GIFT OF ADOPTION - FLORIDA CHAPTER | $10,000 |
| HEART GALLERY OF TAMPA | $10,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- BABAY AREA LEGAL SERVICES INC7× · 2018–2025 · $145k · revenue +76%
- CFCROSSROADS FOR FLORIDA KIDS INC7× · 2018–2025 · $135k · revenue +730% · 62% of their budget
- TSTHE SPRING OF TAMPA BAY INC7× · 2018–2025 · $135k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- MMMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIESone grant, 2020 · $28k
- VFVOICES FOR CHILDREN OF TAMPA BAY INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +185%
- GOGIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +132%
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.
Legal representation of children.
Providing compassion, respect, and loving care to each individual on their unique adoption journey. We commit to honoring and nurturing expectant mothers through pregnancy, birth, and life after placement.
Child Advocacy Services
To provide dedicated volunteers to advocate in court for the best interests of children who have experienced abuse or neglect.
A comprehensive, child-friendly facility where professionals from law enforcement, medical, child protection and therapeutic services collaborate to meet the individual needs of child victims and break the cycle of abuse.
Advocate in the judicial system for the best interest of victims of abuse and neglect in foster care, giving the child a voice in court and moving the child to a safe and permanent home.
Help and heal the heartacheand pain of the abused.
To represent the best interests of children involved in civil proceedings due to abuse and/or neglect. court appointed special advocate associations support and promote court-appointed volunteer advocacy for abused and neglected children…
helping kids find their parents or legal custodians
Advocacy for victims of child abuse
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices for Children of Tampa Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Are You Safe Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 13 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 BAY AREA LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR FLORIDA KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPRING OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds Voice for Children Inc AKA Voices for Children of Florida ↗
- Who funds Are You Safe Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST FLORIDA CENTER FOR TRAFFICKING ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Heart Gallery of Tampa 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: Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Vinik Family Foundation · New York Yankees Tampa Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Hillsborough County Bar 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 Spring of Tampa Bay Inc — 33% of income from government
- Bay Area Legal Services Inc — 14% 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.