· Private foundation
James T and Diana P Barnes 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of JAMES T AND DIANA P BARNES FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k60 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCF FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGR | $20,000 |
| WINTER PARK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| WELBOURE AVENUE NURSERY & KINDERGAR | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| ROLLINS COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| THE GARDENS AT DEPUGH NURSING CTR | $10,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST MARGARET MARY CHURCH | $5,940 |
| FOUNDATION FOR FOSTER CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| THE WINTER PARK BLUE DOLPHINS FOUND | $5,000 |
| WINTER PARK IDEAS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| ST MARGARET MARY CHURCH | $5,000 |
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, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 27% of James T and Diana P Barnes Foundation Inc’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.
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 +17% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 20 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- RCROLLINS COLLEGE8× · 2017–2025 · $86k · revenue +72%
- WPWINTER PARK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +60%
HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +229%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF FL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2024 · $10k
- CLCATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south 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…
Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…
Our mission is to provide exceptional dialysis care and services to individuals with end-stage kidney disease throughout central florida. we are dedicated to expanding access to treatment and ensuring all those in need receive quality…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The mission of heart of florida united way is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our communities. this is accomplished by standing up for the health, education, and financial stability of every person in central florida.
To provide opportunity to young people and develop leaders for industry, philanthropy, education and the community through the intercollegiate athletic experience.
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Care Foundation 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 43 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 149 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.
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- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WINTER PARK IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Orlando Shakespeare Theater Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR FOSTER CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds CREALDE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MEAD BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds SMALL PAWS RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CASA FELIZ INC ↗
- Who funds PET RESCUE BY JUDY INC ↗
- Who funds ALBIN POLASEK MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds WINTER PARK DAY NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
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: Central Florida Foundation · The Dr P Phillips Foundation · Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation · Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation Inc · The Lee Foundation · Magruder Chesley G Fdn Im · The Galloway Foundation · Universal Orlando Foundation Inc · Heart of Florida United Way Inc · Anderson-Devitt Foundation Inc · James P Caruso & Christine S Caruso Charitable Fund Inc · Orlando Health 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 T and Diana P Barnes Foundation 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.
- Idignity Inc — 6% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Outdoors Inc — 1% of income from government
- United Arts of Central Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% 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
- Florida Southern College — 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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