· Private foundation
Samara Fund 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $149k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS | $38,000 |
| SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS CONS | $30,000 |
| TWO TITMICE FOUNDATION | $23,000 |
| THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC | $14,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $12,000 |
| DESIGNS FROM THE HEART | $12,000 |
| THE HARLEM JETS INC | $10,000 |
| THE ISLAND SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MADISON COUNTY COMMUNITY LEARNING C | $9,500 |
| PATH | $9,000 |
| URBAN PARADISE GUILD INC | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC | $7,000 |
| EDUCATE TOMORROW CORP | $5,000 |
| GROUNDWORK JACKSONVILLE INC | $5,000 |
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, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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 +56% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 3 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- WIWELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $309k · revenue +178%
Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy5× · 2021–2025 · $134k · revenue +247%- TTTWO TITMICE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $93k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- POPEACE OF HEART COMMUNITY INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +49%
- PLPUBLIC LAND TRUSTone grant, 2020 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $9k
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 bolles school prepares students for college and life by inspiring excellence, courage, integrity and compassion in an academic community dedicated to nurturing mind, body and soul.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Private educational institution in new york city that provides a quality education to girls in grades k-12.
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.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
The organization is focused on addressing water pollution, climate change, and environmental issues. it employs art, science, culture, and design as galvanizing channels for its sustainability program. it develops responsive strategies and…
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
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Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
See schedule odedicated to rescuing, protecting and providing sanctuary for elephants worldwide. our founding directors and elephant care specialist consult internationally for the wellbeing of captive elephants. currently based in brazil,…
Bios's mission is to seek and share fundamental knowledge of the oceans through state-of-the-art scientific research, world-class field expeditions, and comprehensive educational experiences.
The foundation of the palm beach day academy's program is the education of our students in an academically challenging and compassion rich environment that guides each child toward personal excellence of mind, body and character.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peace First Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Surfside Cats 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 19 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 91 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.
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- Who funds BRYANT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MountainTrue ↗
- Who funds THE ISLAND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Madison County Community Learning Centers ↗
- Who funds Reconciliation House Inc ↗
- Who funds Penland School Of Craft ↗
- Who funds EDUCATE TOMORROW CORP ↗
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- Who funds PEACE OF HEART COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSONVILLE ARTS AND MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
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 Miami Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Frances & William H Beattie Fdn · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · North Carolina Community Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Td Charitable Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy 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 Samara Fund 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.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
- Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc — 19% of income from government
- Urban Oasis Project Inc — 12% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Groundwork Jacksonville Inc — 3% of income from government
- Beaches Area Historical Societyinc — 0% of income from government
- Educate Tomorrow Corp — 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% of income from government
- Gulliver Preparatory School 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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