· Private foundation
John E Stross 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 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Redefining Refuge | $3,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of your 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.
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 +84% since the first grant, against +56% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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; $0 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
- CDCHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC5× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +123%
COMMUNITY ACTION STOPS ABUSE INC5× · 2017–2021 · $30k · revenue +158%- RRREDEFINING REFUGE INC3× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- AAANGELS AGAINST ABUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue +91%
St Petersburg Free Clinic Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +56%- GCGLAZER CHILDREN'S MUSEUMone grant, 2018 · $4k
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 mission of the child protection center, inc. is the prevention, intervention and treatment of child abuse. we envision a community where children are safe from abuse and free to thrive. to successfully address the issue of child abuse,…
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…
Organization mission: florida's children first is a non-profit, nonpartisan, independent advocacy organization committed to protecting and advancing the rights of children and youth impacted by the child welfare, juvenile justice, and…
For 80 years, suncoast center, inc. has held true to its mission of "strengthening, protecting, and restoring lives for a healthy community" by providing a comprehensive range of evidence-based services that address emotional wellness,…
Since 1981, children's advocacy center of southwest florida, inc. (cac) has advocated for a healthy, safe community for children through a multidisciplinary team approach to child abuse and neglect. our mission is to create a safe and…
Spca florida exists to eliminate animal suffering and to engage the entire community in the welfare and well-being of animals.we accomplish this by advancing model programs to promote the adoption of healthy animals, prevent dog and cat…
To deliver a well coordinated and multi-disciplined response to child abuse in an environment that puts children first
Victoria's place st. pete, inc. was created by community action stops abuse, inc. (casa) to work in conjunction with casa to influence our community to stand up to silence through advocacy, prevention, intervention, and support services.
Rescue pointer dogs and treat back to health and f
To provide dedicated volunteers to advocate in court for the best interests of children who have experienced abuse or neglect.
The safe children coalition's mission is to protect children and youth, strengthen families, and build community.
To promote policies that build effective primary prevention and early intervention systems of support for florida's children and families by engaging and enhancing the collective strengths of the individual children's services councils of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Dream Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 14 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 CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION STOPS ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds REDEFINING REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds SUNCOAST VOICES FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELS AGAINST ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds A DOOR OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS TAMPA BAY FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds BEAT CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION 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: Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · White Family Foundation · Francis and Gertrude Levett Foundation · Alvah H & Wyline P Chapman Foundation · Vinik Family Foundation · Pinellas Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Pfizer 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 John E Stross Family 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.
- Community Action Stops Abuse Inc — 13% of income from government
- Children's Dream Fund 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.