· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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 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 +34% since the first grant, against +30% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +17%
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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 85 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Straz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Straz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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