Florida · 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.
- $600k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 66
- Grants FY2025
- 57
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 45 to 65
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 25
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Robert E Dods Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 64 | $595k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 57 | $543k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 58 | $536k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 65 | $585k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 56 | $458k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 55 | $428k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 56 | $379k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 45 | $259k | 31% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samaritan's Purse | $520,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Christ Church of Longboat Key Inc | $424,674 | 9 | n/a |
| United Community Centers Inc | $320,000 | 6 | 10% |
| The Center for Safer Communities | $186,200 | 9 | 3% |
| St Joseph High School | $161,000 | 4 | n/a |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $125,000 | 9 | 0% |
| All Faiths Food Bank Inc | $120,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Americares Foundation Inc | $120,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Classical Academy of Sarasota | $105,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Harvest House Inc | $105,000 | 7 | 5% |
Show all 94 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($504k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Robert E Dods Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 75 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
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About Robert E Dods Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Robert E Dods Family Foundation Inc give?
- Robert E Dods Family Foundation Inc reported 66 grants totaling $599,725 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 65 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Robert E Dods Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), International (19%), Religion (16%).
- Who are Robert E Dods Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Samaritan's Purse ($520k), Christ Church of Longboat Key Inc ($425k), United Community Centers Inc ($320k).
- Does Robert E Dods Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert E Dods Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Robert E Dods Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc, Manatee Community Foundation Inc, Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Robert E Dods Family Foundation Inc based?
- Robert E Dods Family Foundation Inc is based in FL.
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