· Private foundation
Stellar Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $152k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $128k
- $250k+1 grant · $280k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORDIA FOUNDATION | $280,000 |
| UNF FOUNDATION | $67,500 |
| UF HEALTH JACKSONVILLE | $60,000 |
| DEERWOOD ROTARY CHARITIES INC | $40,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE | $30,000 |
| FBH COMMUNITY INC | $20,000 |
| UF FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| FLAGLER COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| THE WUERFFEL FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| JACKSONVILLE ZOO AND GARDENS | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF FLORIDA'S FIRST COAST INC | $8,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| DEERWOOD COUNTRY CLUB | $1,500 |
| DOWNTOWN ECUMENICAL SERVICES COUNCIL INC | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 4 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $829k · revenue +56%- FCFLAGLER COLLEGE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $239k · revenue +48%
- JUJacksonville University8× · 2017–2024 · $161k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- YYMCAone grant, 2023 · $28k
- MAMUSEUM AND SCIENCE & HISTORYone grant, 2021 · $25k
- JJJACKSONVILLE JAGUARS LLCone grant, 2019 · $25k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…
As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…
University of florida jacksonville physicians, inc. is dedicated to making a difference in the lives of those we serve by providing exceptional and innovative practice management in support of the university of florida college of medicine…
Inspired by jewish values, we protect the vulnerable, empower individuals and strengthen families. (continued on schedule o)
As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…
As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…
Wecarejax coordinates access to compassionate care for uninsured and under-resourced adult duval county neighbors during their individual healthcare journey.
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
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,…
As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…
Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…
How this is measured
65 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 156 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLAGLER COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds FLAGLER HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jacksonville University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FBH COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds DEERWOOD ROTARY CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FLORIDA'S FIRST COAST INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSONVILLE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SEAMARK RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds RODEHEAVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Edward Waters University Inc ↗
- Who funds DREAMS COME TRUE OF JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GENESIS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONEJAX INC ↗
- Who funds River Garden Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ANGELWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds WUERFFEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jacksonville Symphony Association Inc ↗
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 for Northeast Florida Inc · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · Pga Tour Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · The Gate Foundation Inc · United Way of Northeast Florida Inc · Csx Foundation Inc · Dubow Family Foundation Inc · The Maryellen S Willis Charitable Trust · Crowley Cares Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Michael Cascone Jr & Elizabeth Belyea Cascone Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Stellar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stellar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Womens Center of Jacksonville Inc: 37% of income from government
- Im Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless Inc: 23% of income from government
- Jewish Community Alliance Inc: 12% of income from government
- Edward Waters University Inc: 11% of income from government
- Jacksonville University: 3% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc: 2% of income from government
- Cathedral Arts Project Inc: 1% of income from government
- Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc: 0% of income from government
- Leadership Jacksonville Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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