· Private foundation
Jacarlene Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $343k
- $50k–250k22 grants · $2.3M
- $250k+6 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROLLINS COLLEGE | $1,000,000 |
| CONSERVATION FLORIDA INC | $450,000 |
| FEEDING FLORIDA INC | $450,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC | $425,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST OF THE BIG BEND | $300,000 |
| SHIRLEY PROCTOR PULLER FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY | $200,000 |
| FLORIDA LITFEST INC (DBA WORD OF SOUTH) | $200,000 |
| FLORIDA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC | $200,000 |
| SOUTHERN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY INC | $165,000 |
| TAMPA BAY WATCH INC | $155,000 |
| MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC | $150,000 |
| IN TOUCH WITH COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD INC | $125,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC | $100,000 |
| FLORIDA AQUARIUM INC | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Jacarlene Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 90% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 28 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M 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
METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC6× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +97%- ASAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF THE BIG BEND INC3× · 2023–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +57%
- RCROLLINS COLLEGE2× · 2023–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +32%
Funded once
- SRSenior Resource Association Incone grant, 2024 · $233k · revenue +22%
- WOWORD OF SOUTH FESTIVAL OF LITERATUREone grant, 2024 · $200k
THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INCone grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue +11%
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 advancement of marine and environmental sciences through scientific research, education and public outreach, leading new discoveries, revitalization and sustainability of our oceans and greater public understanding of our marine…
The mission of the foundation is to restore and protect america's everglades through its three programmatic pillars: science, advocacy and education. (continued on schedule o)
We are a grassroots organization focused on the critical environmental issues of sw florida. we accomplish this through a myriad of efforts by the teams in our programmatic departments: science, policy, education and wildlife…
Mission is to seek protection of land and water resources through restoration and conservation; and conducting education and outreach on the ecological and economic importance of natural lands. we protect land from development and protect…
To inspire environmental stewardship of florida's coastal ecosystems through education, research and advocacy.
Working in partnership with state business leaders to secure florida's future.
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.
To safeguard Florida's water, wildlife, and wild spaces by taking action today to prevent irreversible loss tomorrow.
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…
To promote visitation to florida by strengthening florida's share of the global travel market with the goal of maximizing the economic impact of travel and tourism to florida.
The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management. the fsu foundation accomplishes its mission by fostering…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Tampa Theatre Inc a/K/a Tampa Theatre Foundation and the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. 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 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% 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.
106 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. 106 of the 131 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 METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF THE BIG BEND INC ↗
- Who funds ROLLINS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC ↗
- Who funds Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH WITH COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County Inc ↗
- Who funds Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds MIAMI MUSIC PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY INNOVATORS INC ↗
- Who funds Shirley Proctor Puller Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Senior Resource Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FISH & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA I ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Tampa Inc ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Florida Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds PINELLAS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hillsborough Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BONNET HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF TAMPA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CRISIS CENTER OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds CLINIC FOR THE REHABILITATION OF WILDLIFE INC ↗
- Who funds WEST JUPITER COMMUNITY GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds JUDEO CHRISTIAN HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE TALLAHASSEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 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: Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Pinellas Community Foundation · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · Rays Baseball Foundation Inc · Vinik Family Foundation · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · The Saunders Foundation · The Spurlino Foundation · Frank E Duckwall 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 Jacarlene 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.
- Florida Humanities Council Inc — 100% of income from government
- Dream in Green Inc — 58% of income from government
- Feeding Florida Inc — 32% of income from government
- Legal Services of North Florida Inc — 27% of income from government
- Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — 23% of income from government
- Helping Advance and Nurture the Development of Youth Inc (Handy Inc) — 21% of income from government
- Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc — 19% of income from government
- Putnam Land Conservancy Inc — 13% of income from government
- Alpha House of Pinellas County Inc — 12% of income from government
- Star of the Sea Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- Broward Partnership for the Homeless Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Sundari Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
- Alachua Conservation Trust Inc — 5% of income from government
- Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc — 4% of income from government
- Academy Prep Center of Tampa Inc — 3% of income from government
- Museum of Discovery and Science Inc — 2% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- Miami Music Project Inc — 2% of income from government
- Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I — 1% of income from government
- United Arts of Central Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- ARTS4ALL Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Stetson University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Learning Alliance Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Holocaust Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Florida Aquarium 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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