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Msc Foundation Inc
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN GOLD STAR MOTHERS INC | $2,000 |
| CHILDREN FIRST INC | $2,000 |
| EPIC COMMUNITY CENTER INC | $2,000 |
| GUARDIAN ANGELS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA | $2,000 |
| SS PETER & PAUL THE APOSTLES | $2,000 |
| HUNGER'S END INC | $2,000 |
| ST DAVID'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,000 |
| SENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC | $2,000 |
| HOPE FAMILY SERVICES INC | $2,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF PARRISH INC | $2,000 |
| FEEDING EMPTY LITTLE TUMMIES INC | $2,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SARASOTA | $2,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $2,000 |
| JOURNEYS BY GRACE GLOBAL MISSI | $1,500 |
| MY BREAST FRIENDS 941 | $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, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +25% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
98 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 68 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- HFHope Family Services Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $21k · revenue +19%
- FEFeeding Empty Little Tummies Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $17k · revenue +141%
Children First Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- WBWEST BRADENTON BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $3k
- DADREAMERS ACADEMY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +168%
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2024 · $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.
Preventing child abuse, restoring healing, and strengthening all children and their families through advocacy, treatment, and shelter.
To deliver a well coordinated and multi-disciplined response to child abuse in an environment that puts children first
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Suncoast charities for children is a 501(c)(3)organization that provides direct financial support to several local non-profit agencies offering programs and services to children, teen and adults with special needs throughout sarasota,…
Lead agency in the community for providers of homeless/prevention services in manatee/sarasota. responsible to plan strategies with community partners, assist with grants, educate the public, advocate with local leadership, administer the…
Bays provides counseling & guidance to the youth of florida and provides services necessary to aid troubled youth & their families. bays partners with individuals, families, and communities to inspire change, growth, & success.
Pathways Early Education Center of Immokalee closes the opportunity gap by providing individualized, high-quality cognitive, social, emotional and physical education to children from birth to 5 years.
Our mission is "delivering care that changes people's lives"
Hunger relief for the indigent. The South County Food Pantry provides food to families and individuals in the Venice, Nokomis, Laurel & Osprey, areas of FL. SCFP distributes to more than 400 family units per month.
To provide temporary shelter for abused and neglected children and support families at risk of abuse.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Forty Carrots of Sarasota Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hollys Hope of North Port. 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 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
127 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. 127 of the 184 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 Hope Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Feeding Empty Little Tummies Inc ↗
- Who funds MANASOTA OPERATION TROOP SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds Children First Inc ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc ↗
- Who funds SENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds ALSO FOR GAY YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HEART HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds Community Coalition on Homelessness dba Turning Points ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ↗
- Who funds Hollys Hope of North Port ↗
- Who funds Healthy Teens Inc ↗
- Who funds TEEN COURT OF SARASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE INC ↗
- Who funds We Care Manatee Inc ↗
- Who funds SAFE CHILDREN COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTERPLACE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds ALL STAR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE SUN COAST INC ↗
- Who funds Forty Carrots of Sarasota Inc ↗
- Who funds ON THE SPOT AID INC ↗
- Who funds CAMELOT COMMUNITY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN GOLD STAR MOTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA VETERANS FOR COMMON SENSE INC ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds SELAH FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds NEURO CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 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 of Sarasota Co Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Sisterhood For Good Inc · The Tillie Jennie & Harold Schwartz Foundation Inc · Center for Faith and Freedom Inc · United Way Suncoast Inc · Wilson - Wood Foundation Inc · Annette J Hagens Memorial 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 Msc 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.
- Children First Inc — 100% of income from government
- Step Up Suncoast Inc — 63% of income from government
- Selah Freedom Inc — 53% of income from government
- Hope Family Services Inc — 40% of income from government
- More Too Life Inc — 28% of income from government
- Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — 23% of income from government
- Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc — 12% of income from government
- Child Protection Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- Crossroads Hope Academy Inc — 1% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Manatee County Girls Club Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lightshare Behavioral Wellness & Recovery Inc — 0% of income from government
- Meals On Wheels Plus of Manatee Inc — 0% of income from government
- Safe Children Coalition Inc — 0% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Everyday Blessings Inc — 0% of income from government
- Camelot Community Care Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — 0% of income from government
- Teen Court of Sarasota Inc — 0% of income from government
- Resilient Retreat Inc — 0% of income from government
- Valerie's House 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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