· Private foundation
Sarah W George Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKE CARE INC | $50,000 |
| LOVEXTENSION INC | $25,000 |
| HAND IN HAND LAKE COUNTY INC | $25,000 |
| STETSON UNVI SPRING HILL COMMUNITY | $20,000 |
| FORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION 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, $334k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 3% 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.
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 +130% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- LCLake Cares Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $280k · revenue +193%
- HIHand in Hand Lake County Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $128k · revenue +130%
- TLTROUT LAKE NATURE CENTER INC3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +602%
Funded once
- CFCENTRAL FLORIDA YMCAone grant, 2017 · $15k
- AFAUDUBON FLORIDAone grant, 2020 · $10k
- MDMOUNT DORA TRUST FUNDone grant, 2020 · $8k
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.
Promotion of the visual and performing arts in lake wales, florida
To empower people with disabilities to lead self-directed lives as valued members of the community.
Providing operating space to non-profit organizations
To Provide Services, Energy, Assistance, and Meals on Wheels to local Seniors and other low income individuals in need.
The university center of lake county provides facilities and support services for its member colleges and universities in delivering higher education programs to lake county students.
To meet the educational needs of the community by offering a variety of high quality vocational and technical training opportunities for high school and adult students. the college is a post secondary technical college.
The mission of PADS Lake County is to stand as a community based organization that provides trauma-informed support, resources, and shelter to individuals and families experiencing a housing crisis. We envision a community in which…
To provide the highest quality informational, educational, cultural and recreational resources and services to residents of all ages in the lake county public.
To provide art education and exhibit art by local artists for the enrichment and benefit of the public in Flagler and surrounding counties, Florida.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mount Dora Center for the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Forward Paths Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 21 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 Lake Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds Hand in Hand Lake County Inc ↗
- Who funds TROUT LAKE NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STETSON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds FORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOVEXTENSION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT DORA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BAY STREET PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISEARC INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE EUSTIS MUSEUM OF ART 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: Charles B & Mary M McLin Foundation · W T Bland Jr Charitable Tua · United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Sarah W George Charitable Trust 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.
- Stetson University Inc — 1% 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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