· Public charity
Rays Baseball Foundation Inc
The rays baseball foundation and rowdies soccer fund is dedicated to improving the lives of those in need within our community, focusing primarily on education, youth development, wellness, and social responsibility.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 65 grants below total $1,880,556 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,442,774 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $562,218 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k45 grants · $922k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $884k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF SUNCOAST INC | $201,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC | $150,000 |
| PINELLAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| PINELLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| HILLSBOROUGH EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $75,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES TAMPA BAY INC | $73,400 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC | $60,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF TAMPA BAY INC | $50,000 |
| TAMPA BAY WATCH INC | $50,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH FOR HEROES INC | $50,000 |
| STARTING RIGHT NOW INC | $40,000 |
| GOOD SPORTS INC | $35,000 |
| POYNTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA STUDIES INC | $35,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC | $35,000 |
| GULF COAST JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $35,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $915k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Rays Baseball Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +55% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
99 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 56 since wound down; 19 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $341k 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
- FAFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC7× · 2018–2024 · $725k · revenue +129%
PINELLAS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $460k · revenue +45%- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $383k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF CHARLOTTE COUNTY INCone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -32%
- COCITY OF TAMPAone grant, 2020 · $100k
- TBTAMPA BAY RAYS BASEBALLone grant, 2017 · $62k
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.
The mission of the child protection center, inc. is the prevention, intervention and treatment of child abuse. we envision a community where children are safe from abuse and free to thrive. to successfully address the issue of child abuse,…
Provides college scholarships and mentoring programs for deserving low-income children whose household income falls below 185% of the federal poverty guidelines from middle school through college.
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.
The organization's mission is to identify and invest in workforce development solutions to meet the needs of manatee and sarasota counties.
The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.
For 80 years, suncoast center, inc. has held true to its mission of "strengthening, protecting, and restoring lives for a healthy community" by providing a comprehensive range of evidence-based services that address emotional wellness,…
Families first of palm beach county, through innovative programs, promotes generational change by addressing families emotional, physical, and social well-being.
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…
Better together helps at-risk families by empowering parents and surrounding them with community, meaningful work opportunities, and practical support. our volunteer-driven, professionally supported model provides direct services so that…
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
The safe children coalition's mission is to protect children and youth, strengthen families, and build community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cetera Inc. 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 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
211 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. 211 of the 243 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PINELLAS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hillsborough Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds STARTING RIGHT NOW ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CHARLOTTE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COPPERHEAD CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds PINELLAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CRISIS CENTER OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF ST PETERSBURG ↗
- Who funds Mental Health for Heroes ↗
- Who funds Community Tampa Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF TAMPA INC ↗
- Who funds THE POYNTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BURG BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN OF MANATEE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TSIC OF SARASOTA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PASCO EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF LAKELAND INC ↗
- Who funds Pinellas County Urban League Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION STOPS ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SUNCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ST PETERSBURG INC ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DR CARTER G WOODSON AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES 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: Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Pinellas Community Foundation · Vinik Family Foundation · United Way Suncoast Inc · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Foundation for a Healthy St Petersburg Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · The Florida Medical Clinic Foundation of Caring Inc · Francis and Gertrude Levett Foundation · Lightning 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 Rays Baseball 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.
- Tampa Hillsborough Homeless Initiative Inc — 100% of income from government
- University Area Community Development Corporation Inc — 100% of income from government
- Tampa Bay Wave Inc — 100% of income from government
- Pinellas County Urban League Inc — 69% of income from government
- Mid Florida Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
- Selah Freedom Inc — 53% of income from government
- Redlands Christian Migrant Association Inc — 51% of income from government
- Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa Inc — 37% of income from government
- The Spring of Tampa Bay Inc — 33% of income from government
- Domestic Abuse Shelter Inc — 23% of income from government
- Florida Keys Childrens Shelter Inc — 19% of income from government
- United Way of Pasco County Inc — 17% of income from government
- Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services Inc — 15% of income from government
- Homeless Emergency Project Inc — 15% of income from government
- Community Action Stops Abuse Inc — 13% of income from government
- Eckerd Youth Alternatives Inc — 12% of income from government
- Alpha House of Pinellas County Inc — 12% of income from government
- New Life Village Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Centre for Women Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay Inc — 6% of income from government
- Bethune-Cookman University — 6% of income from government
- Academy Prep Center of Lakeland Inc — 4% of income from government
- Tampa Metropolitan Area Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Metropolitan Charities Inc — 4% of income from government
- Academy Prep Center of Tampa Inc — 3% of income from government
- Tampa Jccfederation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay Inc — 3% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Youth and Family Alternatives Inc — 2% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- Parc Inc — 2% of income from government
- Ah of Monroe County — 1% of income from government
- United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc — 1% of income from government
- Great Explorations Inc — 1% of income from government
- Directions for Mental Health Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Children's Home Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Dream Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Kind Mouse Productions Inc — 0% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pasco Education Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Bess the Book Bus Inc — 0% of income from government
- Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay Inc — 0% of income from government
- Children's Dream Fund Inc — 0% of income from government
- Abe Brown Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Holocaust Museum 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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