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Root Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $220k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSEUM OF ARTS & SCIENCES | $500,000 |
| HEARTS FOR MOMS | $50,000 |
| OCEARCH | $50,000 |
| JAE FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| LA'AKEA FOUNDATION | $32,500 |
| VIGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF VOLUSIAFLAGLER | $25,000 |
| ROWDY RODEO | $25,000 |
| VOICES FOR CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| ST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $20,000 |
| HALIFAX HUMANE SOCIETY | $12,000 |
| FOXCROFT SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CONKLIN DAVIS CENTER | $10,000 |
| PAWLICIOUS POOCHIE PET RESCUE | $7,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $7,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% 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.
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 +66% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 18 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; $174k 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
- MOMUSEUM OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INC6× · 2019–2024 · $610k · revenue +772%
- JFJae Foundation Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $111k · revenue +80%
- HFHEARTS FOR MOMS INC2× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +262%
Funded once
- VHVIGO HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · $100k
- SISAILFUTURE INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +13%
- SOSAVE OUR SHORESone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -11%
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 florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…
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,…
Harbor house strives to prevent and break the cycle of domestic abuse through empowerment-based programs, advocacy, education, and community involvement.
Safety, empowerment, and social change for victims of domestic violence and their families. to that end we offer a full compendium of services for victims of domestic violence.
The safe children coalition's mission is to protect children and youth, strengthen families, and build community.
The jacksonville humane society provides care, comfort and compassion to animals in need while engaging the hearts, hands and minds of our community to bring about an end to the killing of abandoned and orphaned shelter animals.
The mission of ability housing is to build flourishing communities where everyone has a home. its vision is a society where housing is a right, not a privilege; and all individuals have safe, affordable housing in vibrant communities. it…
To provide temporary shelter for abused and neglected children and support families at risk of abuse.
Hope services hawaii provides housing-focused interventions to end homelessness through a continuum of services, including homeless prevention and diversion, mobile outreach, medical respite, street medicine, in- shelter medical attention,…
The space coast health foundation will enhance the health and wellness of individuals and communities in brevard county. the foundation will carry out this mission by: routinely talking with the community to maintain a pulse on the health…
To cultivate financial resources dedicated to building stronger families and stronger communities through the operations and programs of families first. contributing to the foundation is an investment in a safe, healthy and sustainable…
Families first of palm beach county, through innovative programs, promotes generational change by addressing families emotional, physical, and social well-being.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Center of West Volusia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pawlicious Poochie Pet Rescue 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 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
68 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. 68 of the 116 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 MUSEUM OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF VOLUSIA-FLAGLER COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Jae Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HEARTS FOR MOMS INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAILFUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds SPOT SUN VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION STOPS ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR SHORES ↗
- Who funds PAWLICIOUS POOCHIE PET RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
- Who funds Voice for Children Inc AKA Voices for Children of Florida ↗
- Who funds THE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Vigo County Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds OCEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE SUN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds A PRIMALLY PLAYFUL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HALIFAX HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PINELLAS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KEIKI CUPBOARD ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARBOR DISH INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
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: United Way of Volusia-Flagler Counties Inc · Simpkins Family Foundation Inc · Paul B Hunter & Constance D Hunter Charitable Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Jeep Beach Inc · Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Volusiaflagler County Coalition for the Homeless Inc · Latitude at Daytona Beach · Perryman Family Foundation · Earl W & Patricia B Colvard Charitable Foundation · Vinik Family 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 Root Family Foundation 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.
- Kristi House Inc — 49% of income from government
- Neighborhood Center of West Volusia Inc — 27% of income from government
- The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc — 16% of income from government
- Community Action Stops Abuse Inc — 13% of income from government
- Autism Delaware Inc — 12% of income from government
- United Way of Martin County Inc — 4% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
- Jesus House of Hope Inc — 3% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Volusia-Flagler Counties Inc — 2% of income from government
- Whispering Meadows Ranch Inc — 1% of income from government
- Flagler Humane Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Stetson University Inc — 0% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Hearts for Moms Inc — 0% of income from government
- Halifax Humane Society 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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