· Private foundation
Hough Family 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $141k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $875k
- $250k+8 grants · $7.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $3,200,000 |
| YMCA | $1,000,000 |
| THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA | $1,000,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDRENS | $850,000 |
| SIN BARCOS INC | $300,000 |
| ST PETERSBURG FREE CLINIC | $250,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| CANTERBURY ENDOWMENT DISTRIBUTION | $225,000 |
| ST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA | $200,000 |
| SING OUT AND READ | $150,000 |
| GREAT EXPLORATIONS | $50,000 |
| READY FOR LIFE | $50,000 |
| MASTER CHORALE OF TAMPA BAY | $40,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $475k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
40 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 23 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $6.8M · revenue +374%
- TFTHE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +50%
- SPST PETERSBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY6× · 2017–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +37% · 78% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $705k
- ECEckerd Collegeone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +23%
- DDMGone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
St Petersburg Arts Alliance is the umbrella organization serving the arts and cultural community: advocating for the arts; facilitating the growth of the arts community; and driving arts-related economics development in St Petersburg and…
To provide educational displays and information on art in our area and to provide scholarships.
To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.
As an arts leader in florida, the ashley gibson barnett museum of art at florida southern college inc (the agb) educates and inspires the community through creative and diverse exhibitions and the acquisition and care of a permanent…
The players theatre's mission is to entertain, educate, and engage the community in high quality live theatre.
The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.
Sarasota Opera produces impassioned opera performances true to the vision of the composer, to entertain, enrich, educate, and inspire a life-long love of opera in our diverse and growing communities.
We aspire to be the premier music organization serving our communities by providing quality, professional performances and educational opportunities.
The st petersburg area chamber of commerce shall be the preeminent leader of business in order to ensure the economic growth and vitality for all in our community.
To inspire, educate and connect our community through the power of shared performing arts experiences.see schedule o for the organization's expanded mission.
The ringling is a place of art, architecture, and circus in an environment that inspires, educates, entertains, and honors the legacy of john & mable ringling.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 44 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 GREATER TAMPA BAY AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds SIN BARCOS INC ↗
- Who funds ST PETERSBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds University of South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds James Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds The American Stage Company Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SING OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds GREAT EXPLORATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS OF ST PETERSBURG FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds READY FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds VOICES OF HOPE FOR APHASIA INC ↗
- Who funds BURG BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds THE USMMA SAILING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Pinellas Youth Symphony Inc ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS CENTER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Eckerd College ↗
- Who funds SALVADOR DALI MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDER OUTDOOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST PETERSBURG OPERA CO 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: Pinellas Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · J Crayton Pruitt Foundation Inc · Francis and Gertrude Levett Foundation · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Thomas A & Mary S James Foundation · Top Jewish Foundation Inc · Rays Baseball Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Sheila a Penrose & R Ernest Mahaffey Charitable Foundation · Raymund Foundation Inc · Westphal Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hough Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hough Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Greater Tampa Bay Area Council Inc Boy Scouts of America: 8% of income from government
- Great Explorations Inc: 1% of income from government
- Eckerd College: 0% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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