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Straz 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 $10k13 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
- $250k+7 grants · $5.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METROPOLITAN OPERA | $1,700,000 |
| TAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $1,190,642 |
| ZOOTAMPA AT LOWRY PARK | $725,000 |
| TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART | $684,000 |
| CARTHAGE COLLEGE | $500,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES | $400,000 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART | $110,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA LEVIN COLLEGE OF LAW | $50,000 |
| HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $18,620 |
| FLORIDA HOUSE ON CAPITOL HILL | $15,206 |
| BERKELEY PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
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, $940k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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 +34% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 8 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $182k 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
- LPLowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc5× · 2019–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +110%
TAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC3× · 2019–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +3%
Northwestern University6× · 2019–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +34%
Funded once
- MOMETROPOLITAIN OPERAone grant, 2022 · $350k
- TTBPACone grant, 2022 · $161k
- LFLIGHTNING FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +30%
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.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management. the fsu foundation accomplishes its mission by fostering…
The mission of Nova Southeastern University-a selective, doctoral research university-is to deliver academic programs in a dynamic, innovative environment. We foster academic excellence, leadership, integrity (continued on Schedule O) and…
The primary purpose of the h. lee moffitt cancer center and research institute hospital, inc. ("hospital") is to contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Tampa Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Rays of Hope Community Outreach Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 85 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 TAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CARTHAGE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA HOUSE WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds The University of Tampa Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds LIGHTNING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hillsborough Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ARISE ALLIANCE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TAMPA PRIDE ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARY LEES HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds THE CHISELERS 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: Vinik Family Foundation · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Triad Foundation Inc · Frank E Duckwall Foundation · Mary & Bob Sierra Family Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Chris T Sullivan Foundation Inc · The Spurlino Foundation · Sbj Resch Family Foundation Inc · Lightning Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc
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 Straz 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.
- Innocence Project of Florida Inc — 30% of income from government
- Cuban Club Foundation Inc — 7% of income from government
- Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc — 0% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tampa Museum of Art 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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