· Private foundation
Milkey Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $230k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $681k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHWAB CHARITABLES FUND | $885,838 |
| FEEDING TAMPA BAY | $650,000 |
| FRIENDS OF STRAYS | $348,334 |
| DR CARTER G WOODSON AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MUSEUM | $250,000 |
| DAYSTAR LIFE CENTER | $115,500 |
| PINELLAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| PINELLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| TAMPA BAY WATCH MARINE EDUCATION CENTER | $65,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $50,000 |
| GULF COAST JFCS | $50,000 |
| BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM AND ARTS CENTER | $30,000 |
| DMG SCHOOL PROJECT | $25,000 |
| THE DALI MUSEUM | $25,000 |
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, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% 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 +28% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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 INC7× · 2018–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +129%
- TBTAMPA BAY WATCH INC6× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +62%
PINELLAS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $465k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- FCFIGHTING CHANCE FUNDone grant, 2020 · $100k
- SRSTARTING RIGHT NOWone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +6%
- CMClearwater Marine Aquarium Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +72%
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…
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…
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.
The mission of the Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa a/k/a ZooTampa at Lowry Park, is to rescue, rehabilitate and care for animals.(Expanded mission on Schedule O)ZooTampa creates exceptional personalized experiences that connect…
The players theatre's mission is to entertain, educate, and engage the community in high quality live theatre.
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.
Rescue pointer dogs and treat back to health and f
Our mission is to rescue animals from animal shelters that may otherwise be euthanized due to time limitations, illness, injuries or lack of socialization and training.
As an arts leader in florida, the ashley gibson barnett museum of art at florida southern college inc (the agb) educates and inspires the community through creative and diverse exhibitions and the acquisition and care of a permanent…
The Mission of the Sarasota Ballet of Florida is to enrich lives, captivate emotions and strengthen the community through the art of dance.
To provide educational displays and information on art in our area and to provide scholarships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Beer Kulture 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 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 62 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 DAYSTAR LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Strays Inc ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds PINELLAS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF ST PETERSBURG ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds DMG SCHOOL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The American Stage Company Inc ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WARRICK DUNN CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds SALVADOR DALI MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SUNTAN ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PINELLAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOL RELIEF ↗
- Who funds ST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds READY FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF PINELLAS INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM AND ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Tampa Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds Shirley Proctor Puller Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ANGELS AGAINST ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds STARTING RIGHT NOW ↗
- Who funds R'CLUB CHILD CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds DERRICK BROOKS CHARITIES 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 · Pinellas Community Foundation · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Rays Baseball Foundation Inc · Vinik Family Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Westphal Family Foundation Inc · White Family Foundation · Alvah H & Wyline P Chapman Foundation · Foundation for a Healthy St Petersburg Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Francis and Gertrude Levett 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 Milkey 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.
- Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services Inc — 15% of income from government
- Alpha House of Pinellas County Inc — 12% of income from government
- Brookwood Florida Inc — 7% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Clearwater Marine Aquarium 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
- Florida Holocaust Museum 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.