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Penniman Family Foundation
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLORIDA CENTER FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY | $45,000 |
| ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY | $14,000 |
| FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY | $10,500 |
| NAPLES ART ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE | $8,000 |
| NAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL | $7,500 |
| GEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN | $5,000 |
| NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC | $5,000 |
| MOORINGS PARK FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| ROCK CREEK PARK CONSERVANCY | $2,500 |
| ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER | $2,500 |
| EVERGLADES FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +47% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 23 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- FCFLORIDA CENTER FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $186k · revenue +197% · 34% of their budget
- MHMEDSTAR HEALTH INC4× · 2020–2023 · $60k · revenue +54%
THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA2× · 2021–2023 · $35k · revenue +271%
Funded once
- WWGCUone grant, 2020 · $7k
- SFSouthwest Florida Music Education Center Incone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -85%
- FOFRIENDS OF SLIGO CREEKone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
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…
Mission is to seek protection of land and water resources through restoration and conservation; and conducting education and outreach on the ecological and economic importance of natural lands. we protect land from development and protect…
Florida state parks foundation preserves, protects, sustains and grows florida state parks.
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Botanical Garden Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Sligo Creek. 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 41 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 90 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 FLORIDA CENTER FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds MEDSTAR HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LOWELL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds NAPLES ART ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds OPENSECRETS ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES INC ↗
- Who funds CALUSA WATERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Southwest Florida Music Education Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ODYSSEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds 1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MOORINGS PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Broward Bulldog Inc DBA Florida Bulldog ↗
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: Collier Community Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The League Club Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The Miami Foundation Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Penniman Family Foundation 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.
- Medstar Health Inc — 23% of income from government
- Maryland Historical Society Inc — 9% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- Gulfshore Playhouse Inc — 0% of income from government
- Naples Community Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- Avow Hospice 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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