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It Works Gives Back Foundation Inc

The foundation's mission consists of distributing funds and assets to public charities qualifying under internal revenue section 501(c)(3).

$77k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$557kReligion$389kInternational$269kHealth$235kFood & Nutrition$89kEmployment$10kHousing & Shelter$5k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $64,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $77,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $12,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $57k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$49k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAMARITANS PURSE$25,000
CHILDREN'S CUP$12,000
SELAH FREEDOM INC$10,000
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION$10,000
HOPE FAMILY SERVICES$7,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%STRENGTH IN ACTION INC: $7k → 10%STRENGTH IN ACTION INC: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 10 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
4

Total granted

$1.5M
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+244%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthReligionHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $269k · revenue +134%
  • GARY SINISE FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $201k · revenue +126%
  • THE PAYTON WRIGHT FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $124k · revenue +383%

Funded once

  • HL
    H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +96%
  • FM
    FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +57%
  • TJ
    TD JAKES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue ×14
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Victory At Sarasota Inc

We are a church, food bank, outreach that ministers the love of Jesus to our city and the surrounding cities by preaching and teaching the word of God every Sunday. We also minister to anyone with a food need weekly through our food bank.…

Religion
2
Chase the Victory Corporation

Our mission is to strengthen the support of families grieving the loss of a child, fighting childhood cancer, and inspire hope and kindness.

Human Services
3
All Faiths Food Bank Inc

Together with our partners, we provide healthy solutions to end hunger in our community.

Food & Nutrition
4
Deliver the Difference Inc

Deliver The Difference is a humanitarian hunger relief organizations. We believe it is wrong that children go to bed hungry and not knowing where their next meal will come from. We believe it is wrong that seniors have to decided whether…

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5
Sacred Heart Foundation Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-center, holistic care which…

Health
6
Kids Beating Cancer Inc

Organization - kids beating cancer, inc., (kbc) is a nonprofit, nonstock florida corporation formed in 1992. kbc provides access to life-saving treatments through the science of cellular therapy and advancing pediatric innovative, novel,…

Human Services
7
The Breathing Room Foundation Inc

The foundation is organized to provide aid and support to individuals and families suffering from the consequences of living with cancer.

Philanthropy
8
Chasin a Dream Foundation Inc

To provide individualized, life changing assistance to families with children battling cancer, cystic fibrosis, and other life threatening illnesses.

Human Services
9
Chance for Hope Foundation

The mission of the chance for hope foundation is to provide support services for children with cancer and their families, funding for pediatric cancer research and treatment, and educational resources to the general public regarding…

Unclassified
10
Wipe Out Kids' Cancer Inc

Wipe out kids cancer offers comfort and hope to kids with cancer through support programs serving the entire family and funds innovative research leading to new discoveries and treatments in the fight against pediatric cancer. "support and…

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11
Miracles From Heaven
International
12
Lighthouse Gospel Mission

Through the love of jesus, the lighthouse serves the hurting, hungry and addicted in our community. this is accomplished through 5 programs: 1)operation hope - a hunger relief program which transports, stores and packages food to the…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Strength in Action Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S CUP: $389,064 · ReligionCHILDREN'S CUPSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $268,500 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSESELAH FREEDOM INC: $245,310 · Human ServicesSELAH FREEDOM INCSTRENGTH IN ACTION INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $200,975 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FO…THE PAYTON WRIGHT FOUNDATION INC: $124,436 · EducationTHE PAYTO…THE V FOUNDATION: $71,000 · HealthH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthSadie Keller Foundation: $15,000 · HealthHope Family Services Inc: $103,807 · OtherHope Famil…MANATEE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $5,000 · OtherFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $24,805 · OtherFEED MY ST…TD JAKES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherTD JAKES F…MEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE INC: $59,000 · Food & Nutrition
Religion$657,564Human Services$257,310Philanthropy$200,975Education$124,436Health$111,000Other$143,612Food & Nutrition$59,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDREN'S CUP: $389,064 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $268,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSELAH FREEDOM INC: $245,310 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $200,975 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PAYTON WRIGHT FOUNDATION INC: $124,436 over 6y, 13% of budgetHope Family Services Inc: $103,807 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $71,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE INC: $59,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $24,805 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSadie Keller Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTD JAKES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMANATEE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Pentecost Foundat…Manatee Community Fou…The Community Foundat…Kiwanis Club of Brade…Msc Foundation IncUnited Way Suncoast I…Gulf Coast Community …Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pentecost FoundationFL15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pentecost Foundation · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Kiwanis Club of Bradenton Inc · Msc Foundation Inc · United Way Suncoast Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization It Works Gives Back Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from It Works Gives Back Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 40%
  • Selah Freedom Inc: 53% of income from government
  • Hope Family Services Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Meals On Wheels Plus of Manatee Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to It Works Gives Back Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $8k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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