· Private foundation
Pay It Backward Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES | $6,500 |
| GO FUND ME- HURRICANE MILTON | $5,500 |
| MERCY HOUSING & SHELTER CORPORATION | $5,000 |
| UNCF | $5,000 |
| ABE BROWN MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| TAMPA BAY FASHION EXPERIENCE | $2,580 |
| LAMPLIGHTER MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| SILOAM MISSION | $2,000 |
| LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION | $2,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF JOSHUA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN | $1,000 |
| ST MARY'S CENTER | $1,000 |
| OPERATION SMILE | $952 |
| ST BONAVENTURE INDIAN MISSION & SCHOOL | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $201k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +74% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 9 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $188k · revenue +38%- MHMERCY HOUSING & SHELTER CORPORATION5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +76%
- ABABE BROWN MINISTRIES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $22k · revenue +51%
Funded once
THE HOWARD UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +2%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
- LMLAMLIGHTER MINISTRIESone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 66 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.
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSING & SHELTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ABE BROWN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds JOSHUA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MC 2 TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JOSHUA HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pay It Backward Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pay It Backward Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mercy Housing & Shelter Corporation: 77% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc: 0% of income from government
- Abe Brown Ministries Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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