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Pinellas County Education Foundation Inc

We accelerate academic achievement for all students through the effective mobilization of innovation, relationships, and resources.

$6.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$6.0MHealth$67kInternational$56kCrime & Legal$40kAnimals$29kYouth Development$15kHuman Services$10kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $1,042,456 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,394,014 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,351,558 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PINELLAS COUNTY SCHOOLS$1,018,456
ELISA NELSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$10,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC$8,000
SUNCOAST ANIMAL LEAGUE$6,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THERHAPPY THERAPY SERVICES INC: $7k → 12%SUNCOAST VOICES FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 12%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN FLORIDA INC: $8k → 13%GIRL SCOUTS OF WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA: $15k → 13%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: $8k → 15%THERHAPPY THERAPY SERVICES INC: $5k → 12%PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $10k → 12%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN FLORIDA INC: $8k → 13%MAKE-A-WISH CENTRAL & NORTH FLORIDA: $8k → 13%SUNCOAST VOICES FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 12%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN FLORIDA INC: $8k → 13%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF TAMPA BAY INC: $31k → 13%CONNECT-IT 360 INC: $30k → 12%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF TAMPA BAY: $13k → 13%CONNECT-IT 360 INC: $15k → 12%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF TAMPA BAY: $13k → 13%PINELLAS COUNTY SCHOOLS: $3.2M → 12%PINELLAS COUNTY SCHOOLS: $288k → 12%PINELLAS COUNTY SCHOOLS: $285k → 12%PINELLAS COUNTY SCHOOLS: $62k → 12%PINELLAS COUNTY SCHOOLS: $47k → 12%PINELLAS COUNTY SCHOOLS: $9k → 12%ELISA NELSON ELEMENTARY: $10k → 12%ELISA NELSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $10k → 12%ELISA NELSON ELEMENTARY: $10k → 12%SUNCOAST ANIMAL LEAGUE: $6k → 12%SUNCOAST ANIMAL LEAGUE: $6k → 12%SUNCOAST ANIMAL LEAGUE: $6k → 12%SUNCOAST ANIMAL LEAGUE: $6k → 12%SUNCOAST ANIMAL LEAGUE: $5k → 12%JOYFUL MOTION: $5k → 12%CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC: $5k → 12%CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.2M · 11 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +139% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
3

Total granted

$6.2M
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+139%
+14%

Still filing today

73%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalYouth DevelopmentAnimalsCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF TAMPA BAY INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $56k · revenue +132%
  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL & NORTHERN FLORIDA
    4× · 2020–2023 · $32k · revenue +163%
  • SA
    SUNCOAST ANIMAL LEAGUE INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $29k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • GS
    Girl Scouts of West Central Florida Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +2%
  • PC
    Pinellas County Sheriff's Office
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • JM
    Joyful Motion Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +14%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Celebrities Fore Kids Inc

The organization's mission is to make a difference in the lives of children affected by cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. we strive to improve the quality of life and well-being for them and their families by offering financial…

Human Services
2
Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Texas Gulf Coast & Louisiana Inc

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

Health
3
Sunny Shores Sea Camp Inc

Helping families and mentoring children with cystic fibrosis

4
Give Hope Foundation Inc

Provide support to children and families in Central Florida who are battling childhood cancer and have a unique combination of medical, emotional and financial needs.

Philanthropy
5
The Dream Factory Inc - Headquarters

Granting of dreams to critically and/or chronically ill children.

6
A Special Wish Foundation Inc

To grant the wishes of seriously / terminally ill children.

7
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Sc Inc

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

Health
8
Carolina Sunshine for Children Llc

Granting wishes to children of south carolina ages 3 to 18 life threatening illnesses

Health
9
Space Coast Field of Dreams Inc

Working with local organizations to support the special needs community by providing a safe and loving space for individuals of all abilities to play and feel welcome.

Recreation & Sports
10
A Child's Wish of Louisiana Inc

To grant wishes to and otherwise act for the benefit of children suffering from terminal or life theatening illness or disease.

11
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Suffolk County Ny Inc

The make-a-wish foundation of suffolk county, ny creates life changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

12
Swfl Children's Charities Inc Southwest Florida Wine & Food Fest

We provide support to organizations that provide services to children in southwest florida and education to local students majoring in health sciences at local colleges.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Central & Northern Florida and the most unlike its peers is TherHappy Therapy Services 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
11/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PINELLAS COUNTY SCHOOLS — $5,936,398 · OtherPINELLAS COUNTY SCHOOLS+6 more — $110,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL & NORTHERN FLORIDA — $32,000 · HealthTherHappy Therapy Services Inc — $12,200 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC — $8,000 · HealthJoyful Motion Inc — $5,000 · HealthJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF TAMPA BAY INC — $55,965 · InternationalPINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentSUNCOAST ANIMAL LEAGUE INC — $29,000 · AnimalsSUNCOAST VOICES FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Crime & LegalBETH DILLINGER FOUNDATION INC CO KAY DILLINGER — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$6,046,398Health$57,200International$55,965Youth Development$30,000Animals$29,000Crime & Legal$10,000Philanthropy$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF TAMPA BAY INC — $55,965 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL & NORTHERN FLORIDA — $32,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSUNCOAST ANIMAL LEAGUE INC — $29,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetGirl Scouts of West Central Florida Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTherHappy Therapy Services Inc — $12,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSUNCOAST VOICES FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBETH DILLINGER FOUNDATION INC CO KAY DILLINGER — $10,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation of Tampa Bay IncFL17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Vinik Family Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Pinellas County Education 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • TherHappy Therapy Services Inc0% of income from government
  • Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay Inc0% of income from government
  • Children's Dream Fund Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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