· Private foundation
Robert E Dods Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k46 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $352k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $100,000 |
| TURNING POINTS NETWORK | $50,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH OF LONGBOAT KEY INC | $41,825 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $30,000 |
| ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| SAFE CHILDREN COALITION | $25,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION STEPHEN SILLER | $25,000 |
| MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC | $25,000 |
| ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC | $25,000 |
| HARVEST HOUSE | $25,000 |
| CLIFFS RESIDENTS OUTREACH | $15,000 |
| OUR DAILY BREAD OF BRADENTON INC | $15,000 |
| AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| KIWANIS CLUB OF LONGBOAT KEY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $617k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% 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 +31% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE9× · 2017–2025 · $520k · revenue +134%
- UCUNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC6× · 2017–2022 · $320k · revenue +96%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR SAFER COMMUNITIES9× · 2017–2025 · $186k · revenue +39%
Funded once
Conservative Partnership Instituteone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -5%- VFVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue ×45
- PPPAUL PURCELL KIDS WIN (BAIRD FOUNDATION)one grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…
Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…
Working in partnership with state business leaders to secure florida's future.
To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.
Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.
University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…
The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management. the fsu foundation accomplishes its mission by fostering…
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.
See schedule o for a complete description of the organization's mission
See schedule ocollaboratory is a community foundation with an evolved mission committed to coordinating the solving of southwest florida's major social problems by 2040. since our founding in 1976, we have been supporting local causes and…
To enhance the quality of life for all residents now and for future generations; to build permanent endowments, to provide community leadership on relevant issues, and to address needs through grantmaking. as part of our strategic plan,…
The mission of the foundation is to restore and protect america's everglades through its three programmatic pillars: science, advocacy and education. (continued on schedule o)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Our Neighborhoods Promise. 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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
80 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. 80 of the 131 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR SAFER COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF SARASOTA ↗
- Who funds Conservative Partnership Institute ↗
- Who funds WESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds CLIFFS RESIDENTS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds WORD from GOD Inc ↗
- Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD OF BRADENTON INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN CORNER FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Agape Flights Inc ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CONCEPT SCHOOLS NFP ↗
- Who funds BOBBY NICHOLS - FIDDLESTICKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE CHILDREN COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG CAT HABITAT EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS CLUB OF LONGBOAT KEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Graces Closet ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF PICKENS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OUR NEIGHBORHOODS PROMISE ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Msc Foundation Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · Tarr Charitable Family Foundation Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Sisterhood For Good Inc · The Tillie Jennie & Harold Schwartz Foundation Inc · United Way Suncoast Inc · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Suncoast Credit Union 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 Robert E Dods Family 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.
- Selah Freedom Inc — 53% of income from government
- Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — 23% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Safe Children Coalition Inc — 0% of income from government
- Harvest House Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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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