· Private foundation
James P Caruso & Christine S Caruso Charitable Fund Inc
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 $10k34 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Orlando Health Foundation | $63,000 |
| St James Cathedral | $16,490 |
| Our Lady of the Mountains | $11,000 |
| atholic Leadership Institute | $6,000 |
| Relevant Radio | $5,000 |
| Healthnetwork Foundation | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| First Liberty Institute | $2,500 |
| Dynamic Catholic | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Aid to the Church in Need | $2,000 |
| The North Carolina Community Foundation | $2,000 |
| EWTN | $2,000 |
| Legatus | $1,500 |
| Heritage Foundation | $1,000 |
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, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% 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.
83 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- OHOrlando Health Foundation Inc4× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +139%
- CLCATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE6× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +216%
- FLFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE6× · 2018–2025 · $15k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- CCCatholic Charities of Central FL2× · 2020–2021 · $10k
- SPST PAUL CATHOLIC SCHOOL2× · 2020–2021 · $3k
- AAshbrook'sone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
Catholic palliative care services, inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of catholic hospice, inc. and under the sponsorship of the archdiocese of miami, provides responsive end-of-life care to patients and families in broward and dade…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. our lady of mercy life center is a member of st. peter's health…
Faith in public life's mission is to advance the moral imperative for a just, inclusive and equitable country that allows each of us to live into our full humanity. we do this by building power and cultures of belongings among diverse…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
Suncoast hospice's mission is to be the center to improve life for those touched by advanced illness, death, dying, grief, bereavement and other end-of-life issues.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
The mission of santafe healthcare, inc. is to serve as the not-for-profit system parent for its family of not-for-profit, mission-driven, affiliate organizations. see schedule o for continuation of the organization's mission. santafe…
Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…
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 On This Rock Communications 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 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
85 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. 85 of the 145 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 Orlando Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds On This Rock Communications Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CONCERTS FOR HOPE ↗
- Who funds Legatus ↗
- Who funds THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds IMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds Grace Medical Home Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds IDIGNITY INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
- Who funds Catholics Come Home Inc ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LIFE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR FOSTER CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Health Care Center For The Homeless Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Magruder Chesley G Fdn Im · Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation · The Dr P Phillips Foundation · Central Florida Foundation · The Lee Foundation · The Elinor and Tw Miller Jr Foundation Inc · The Galloway Foundation · Universal Orlando Foundation Inc · Orlando Health Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · For Giving Foundation Inc · Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation Inc
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 James P Caruso & Christine S Caruso Charitable Fund 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Health Care Center for the Homeless Inc — 34% of income from government
- Idignity Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
- Orlando Science Centerinc — 4% of income from government
- Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- Covenant House Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Orlando Museum of Art 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
- Food for the Poor 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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