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L6 Foundation
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FEEDING TAMPA BAY | $25,000 |
| BOLEY CENTERS INC | $10,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP PLACE | $7,500 |
| GROW INTO YOU FOUNDATON | $5,000 |
| The Harbor Dish Inc | $4,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY RESCUE MISSION BOWERY MISSION | $3,500 |
| HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM | $3,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC | $3,000 |
| METRO INCLUSIVE HEALTH METROPOLITAN CHARITIES | $3,000 |
| TEAM RED WHITE AND BLUE | $3,000 |
| ST VINENT DE PAUL CARES | $2,500 |
| New Life Village | $2,500 |
| ST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE | $1,500 |
| THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA | $1,500 |
| STARTING RIGHT NOW INC | $1,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +50% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 8 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- FAFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $130k · revenue +37%
- FPFELLOWSHIP PLACE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $55k · revenue +30%
- BCBOLEY CENTERS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $23k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- BTBOMB TECHS WITHOUT BORDERSone grant, 2023 · $3k
- GAGUILFORD A BETTER CHANCE INC GUILFORD A BETTER CHANCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +49%
- TRTEAM RED WHITE AND BLUEone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
To get our neighbors experiencing homelessness off the street through proactive outreach and services and provide placement in a program that will help them get "home."
St. vincent depaul middletown (svdm) was founded in 1980 by the sisters of mercy and the catholic diocese of norwich. svdm's mission is to provide food, shelter and basic human services to poor and homeless individuals regardless of race,…
The lord's place, inc. (the lord's place or agency) is a non-sectarian organization dedicated to breaking the cycle of homelessness for men, women and children in our community. supportive services offered through our housing programs…
Feeding south florida's mission is to end hunger in south florida by providing immediate access to nutritious food, leading hunger and poverty advocacy efforts, and transforming lives through innovative programming and education.
To provide accessible barrier-free services to empower people experiencing problems with homelessness, housing, hunger, and poverty and to advocate for solutions to those problems.
Pibly's mission embraces the belief that the needs of its consumers can be met and their goals can be achieved. pibly strives to expand opportunities for people living with mental health challenges by delivering person centered services…
Open door shelter, inc. strives to make a direct impact in the greater norwalk area by guiding every person in the cycle of homelessness towards housing stability. we will accomplish this by engaging every person at risk of, and…
To rebuild the lives of people in need in anne arundel county through service and compassion by providing shelter, preventing homelessness, and empowering individuals as they work toward self-sufficiency.
The st. vincent depaul mission of waterbury, inc., through its network of services, aids, supports and empowers people experiencing poverty, homelessness, hunger, and mental health challenges so they may recover with dignity and develop…
Journey home's mission is to ensure a home for all. we believe the most powerful way to do this is collectively - by working together with service providers, elected officials, businesses, and local communities to end homelessness in the…
At caring for the hungry and homeless of peekskill (chhop), we believe that every person is entitled to safe and affordable housing and healthy nutritious food.
The organization's mission is to prevent and end hunger and homelessness by providing integrated services that promote long-term stability, health, and independence. (see schedule o for full description)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeless Emergency Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Qplus Queer Youth Program of Connecticut. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 29 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 FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds Help Our Military Heroes Inc ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds BOLEY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds GROW INTO YOU FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DINING ROOM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RED WHITE & BLUE INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds FAIR FOOD STANDARDS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds New York City Rescue Mission ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARBOR DISH INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOUTH PINELLAS INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD A BETTER CHANCE INC GUILFORD A BETTER CHANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKWOOD FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds STARTING RIGHT NOW ↗
- Who funds ST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds KEEP PINELLAS BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds QPLUS QUEER YOUTH PROGRAM OF CONNECTICUT ↗
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: Pinellas Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Rays Baseball Foundation Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America 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 L6 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.
- Fellowship Place Inc — 66% of income from government
- Boley Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- Homeless Emergency Project Inc — 15% of income from government
- New Life Village Inc — 7% of income from government
- Brookwood Florida Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Grow Into You Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries 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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