· Private foundation
Lucy Gooding Charitable Foundation Trust
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $486k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+7 grants · $4.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,720,000 |
| FEEDING NORTHEAST FLORIDA | $1,250,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF NE FLORIDA | $500,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $380,000 |
| DOWNTOWN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL | $330,000 |
| ST VINCENTS FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $300,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $230,000 |
| MALI VAI WASHINGTON YOUTH FOUNDATIO | $220,000 |
| SULZBACHER HOMELESS CENTER | $200,000 |
| BEACHES EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE MINIST | $180,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $180,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY COMMUNITY | $180,000 |
| BARNABUS CENTER INC | $180,000 |
| MANNA FOOD BANK | $100,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Lucy Gooding Charitable Foundation Trust’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. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 5 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
- SVST VINCENT'S FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +500%
- MWMaliVai Washington Kids Foundation Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $918k · revenue +4%
- BCBARNABAS CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $700k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- LFLibrary Foundation of Jacksonville Incone grant, 2023 · $400k · revenue -81%
- TBTHE BOLLES SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $350k · revenue +38%
LUTHERAN SERVICES FLORIDA INCone grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +18%
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 truly make a difference in the lives of St. Johns County homeless families with minor children by providing housing and services required for them to remain intact, stabilize their lives, save money, move into permanent housing, and…
Empowering families with chidren to achieve permanent and stable self-sufficiency by providing case management; nutritious meals; and educational, health and career resources; in a safe and secure environment.
The mission of the organization is to offer protection and quality services for victims of domestic and sexual abuse and their minor children in st. johns county, florida through the establishment and operation of a temporary shelter and…
The Organization's mission is to empower families in making their transition from homelessness to sustainable independence.
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."
The mission of ability housing is to build flourishing communities where everyone has a home. its vision is a society where housing is a right, not a privilege; and all individuals have safe, affordable housing in vibrant communities. it…
Coordinate providers, government, individuals, community and faith based organizations to resolve homelessness issues in St. Johns County. Providing meals in street outreach to homeless individuals.
To provide homes for disadvantaged children.
Lighthouse ministries, inc. is set apart by the spirit of god to communicate the gospel of jesus christ to meet the physical, emotional, and other needs of the poor and at-risk population.
The jacksonville humane society provides care, comfort and compassion to animals in need while engaging the hearts, hands and minds of our community to bring about an end to the killing of abandoned and orphaned shelter animals.
Lutheran social services of northeast florida, inc. (lss) was formed in 1979 by lutheran congregations located in northeast florida as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit social ministry organization. the agency is led by a board of directors…
Family promise works to end homelessness one family at a time. its focus is on families with children which is 30% of the nation's homeless. it offers two programs, temporary shelter, and family support, a prevention and diversion.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sanctuary of Northeast Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dlc Nurse and Learn 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 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 36% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 56 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 UNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MaliVai Washington Kids Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BARNABAS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Beaches Emergency Assistance Ministry I Inc ↗
- Who funds HUBBARD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds St Augustine Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Library Foundation of Jacksonville Inc ↗
- Who funds DLC NURSE AND LEARN INC ↗
- Who funds QUIGLEY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOLLES SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Micahs Place Inc ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds SEAMARK RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN SOCIAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds VISION IS PRICELESS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD SCHOOL 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: The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · United Way of Northeast Florida Inc · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · The Thomas M and Irene Kirbo Charitable Foundation · Pga Tour Inc · The Gate Foundation Inc · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · The Maryellen S Willis Charitable Trust · Csx Foundation Inc · Sontag Foundation · Ray Sutton McGehee Foundation
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 Lucy Gooding Charitable Foundation Trust 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.
- Hubbard House Inc — 42% of income from government
- Micahs Place Inc — 32% of income from government
- Quigley House Inc — 27% of income from government
- Lutheran Services Florida Inc — 19% of income from government
- Presbyterian Social Ministries Inc — 9% of income from government
- United Way of Northeast Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Carpenter's Shop Center 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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