· Private foundation
Lou & Lillian Padolf Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $17,500 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY | $16,250 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $11,250 |
| ST PETERSBURG COLLEGE | $3,750 |
| FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $2,500 |
| FLORIDA AGRICULTRUAL & MECHANIC UNIV | $1,250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA6× · 2020–2025 · $80k
- FSFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $70k
- CCCITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $33k · revenue -17%
Funded once
- WUWARNER UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $2k
- PBPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +41%
- SLSAINT LEO UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +3%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university. (continued in schedule o)
To accept, invest and distribute private gifts in support of the university of south florida.
Private united methodist affiliated college that is committed to educational excellence.
Furman university is an institution of higher education providing distinctive undergraduate education emphasizing an engaged approach combining classroom learning with real world experiences and self-discovery.
Clu is an institution offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in the liberal arts and sciences.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
To foster the formation of people in faith and educate leaders for the common good through community, education, and academic excellence. see schedule o.
University of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.
Florida institute of technology's mission is to provide high-quality education to a culturally diverse student body in order to prepare students for entering the global workforce, seeking higher-education opportunities, and serving within…
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,…
A diverse sustainable community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship, and practice, pacific inspires students to think, care, and pursue justice in our world
How this is measured
6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lou & Lillian Padolf Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lou & Lillian Padolf Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Saint Leo University Inc: 0% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated: 0% of income from government
- Eckerd College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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