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Phoenix Foundation of Central Florida 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.

$311k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$180k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.0MYouth Development$68kArts & Culture$68kCivil Rights$18kHealth$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k27 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $180k
$3,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$413k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION FOR OCPS$180,000
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY$16,000
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA$15,500
SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN$11,500
OTTOWA UNIVERSITY ARIZONA$9,069
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$8,500
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS$7,500
NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY$6,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA$5,500
ST FRANCIS COLLEGE$5,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$5,000
FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY$4,250
POMONA COLLEGE$4,250
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FL$3,250
DUKE UNIVERSITY$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 42% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%OTTOWA UNIVERSITY ARIZONA: $9k → 11%BOSTON CONSERVATORY AT BERKLEE: $15k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $9k → 8%MELBOURNE HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 10%FOUNDATION FOR OCPS: $180k → 13%FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $10k → 16%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $16k → 19%SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $12k → 16%BOSTON CONSERVATORY AT BERKLEE: $12k → 16%FOUNDATION FOR OCPS: $150k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA: $15k → 14%FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $10k → 16%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $9k → 19%BOSTON CONSERVATORY AT BERKLEE: $9k → 16%DISCOVERY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $8k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $16k → 13%FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $9k → 16%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $13k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $9k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $9k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FL: $27k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FL: $22k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FL: $21k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FL: $20k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FL: $19k → 13%COCOA BEACH JRSR HIGH SCHOOL: $13k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FL: $19k → 13%BREVARD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $230k → 10%BREVARD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $148k → 10%BREVARD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $125k → 10%BREVARD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $115k → 10%BREVARD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $70k → 10%BREVARD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $60k → 10%ASTRONAUT HIGH SCHOOL: $22k → 10%BREVARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $50k → 10%ASTRONAUT HIGH SCHOOL: $12k → 10%BREVARD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%VIERA HIGH SCHOOL: $9k → 10%SATELLITE HIGH SCHOOL: $11k → 10%TITUSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL: $9k → 10%THE HORN SECTION: $57k → 10%CROTON ELEMENTARY: $9k → 10%EAU GALLIE HIGH SCHOOL: $9k → 10%BAYSIDE HIGH SCHOOL: $15k → 10%BAYSIDE HIGH SCHOOL: $14k → 10%BAYSIDE HIGH SCHOOL: $13k → 10%CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL: $13k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
KY
VA
AZ
NC
SC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 65 repeat orgs$248k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

65 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
39

Total granted

$2.0M
$237k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+16%

Still filing today

34%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BS
    BREVARD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $773k · revenue +32%
  • FS
    FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $33k · revenue +56%
  • SC
    Savannah College of Art and DesignInc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $21k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $57k
  • BP
    BREVARD PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • CB
    COCOA BEACH JRSR HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $13k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
3
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
4
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
5
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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7
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
8
Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education
9
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
10
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
11
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
12
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lehigh University; the most unlike its peers is Citrus County 4-H Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 115 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
27/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BREVARD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $772,508 · OtherBREVARD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INCFOUNDATION FOR OCPS: $330,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR OCPSUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FL: $135,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FL+81 more: $795,181 · Other+81 moreFLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $32,500 · EducationFLORIDA SO…Savannah College of Art and DesignInc: $20,500 · EducationSavannah C…University of Miami: $17,000 · EducationUniversity…PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC: $13,500 · EducationPALM BEACH…BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $11,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $9,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $8,500 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $8,000 · EducationNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $7,250 · Education+20 more: $85,500 · Education+20 moreCITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC: $68,250 · Youth DevelopmentBROWN UNIVERSITY: $6,000 · Community Improvement
Other$2,032,689Education$212,750Youth Development$68,250Community Improvement$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBREVARD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $772,508 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetCITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC: $68,250 over 8y, 12% of budgetFLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $32,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSavannah College of Art and DesignInc: $20,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $17,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC: $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $7,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST FRANCIS COLLEGE: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLAGLER COLLEGE INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOINT PARK UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New Haven: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROLLINS COLLEGE: $3,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Dayton: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $3,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJacksonville University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorwich University: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 BREVARD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CITRUS COUNTY 4-H ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Savannah College of Art and DesignInc ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Phoenix Foundation of Central Florida Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Phoenix Foundation of Central Florida Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Norwich University: 4% of income from government
  • Jacksonville University: 3% of income from government
  • University of New Haven: 2% of income from government
  • New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Stetson University Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rollins College: 0% of income from government
  • Champlain College Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • The University of Tampa Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • Florida Southern College: 0% of income from government
  • Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Phoenix Foundation of Central Florida Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 115 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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