· Private foundation
Margaret E Dickins Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN STAGE THEATRE CO | $20,000 |
| USF FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| FLUFF ANIMAL RESCUE | $10,000 |
| EQUITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| ACADEMY PREP CTR OF ST PETE | $10,000 |
| FRANKIES FRIENDS | $10,000 |
| DOGS INC | $10,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION | $10,000 |
| ARTS CONSERVATORY FOR TEENS | $10,000 |
| ST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GREAT EXPLORATIONS | $10,000 |
| TAMPA BAY WATCH INC | $10,000 |
| FOR THE LOVE OF PETS | $8,000 |
| GULF COAST JEWISH FAMILY | $5,000 |
| KIDS AND CANINES | $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 (FY17–24, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +58% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- TBTAMPA BAY WATCH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +62%
Save The Children Federation Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $79k · revenue +1%
St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc5× · 2017–2022 · $60k · revenue +185%
Funded once
- AAANGELS AGAINST ABUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +91%
- SPST PETERSBURG OPERA CO INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +36%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF PINELLAS INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -20%
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.
Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…
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…
The Florida Aquarium's mission focuses on our Shared Purpose of a commitment to save marine wildlife, with a Vision to be Florida's leading conservation-based Aquarium. It accomplishes this mission through hosting over 1 million visitors…
To provide central florida residents humane solutions to the pet overpopulation problem through low cost spay/neuter services and community education.
Rescue pointer dogs and treat back to health and f
The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.
Our mission is to encourage, honor and support the human-animal bond in the suncoast region of florida. our vision is to celebrate a community whose pets are safe and loved. suncoast humane society provides sheltering, prevention and…
Disability rights florida advocates, educates, investigates, and litigates to protect and advance the rights, dignity, equal opportunities, self-determination and choices for all people with disabilities.
To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.
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Improve the veterinary care of outdoor cats in se florida via spay/neuter
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Zebra Youth Inc and the most unlike its peers is Frankie's Friends 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 27 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 42 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 EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC ↗
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- Who funds KIDS AND CANINES INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT EXPLORATIONS INC ↗
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- Who funds ST PETERSBURG OPERA CO INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF PINELLAS INC ↗
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- Who funds COMPASSION ANIMAL PROJECT ↗
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: Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Pinellas Community Foundation · Milkey Family Foundation Inc · Alvah H & Wyline P Chapman Foundation · Rays Baseball Foundation Inc · Vinik Family Foundation · The Wood Family Foundation Inc · White Family Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Hough Family 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 Margaret E Dickins 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Innocence Project of Florida Inc — 30% of income from government
- Boley Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- Brookwood Florida Inc — 7% of income from government
- Great Explorations Inc — 1% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% 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.
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