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Talk of the Town Restaurant Group Foundation Inc

The Foundations mission is to make a difference in the community by providing financial support to local charities throughout Central Florida.

$642k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$47,490
Largest grant, FY2024
$165,582
Organizations funded a year
5 to 12
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$110k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Talk of the Town Restaurant Group Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHealthPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$642k31%
FY202312$385k17%
FY202210$302k30%
FY20219$215k22%
FY20205$72k20%
FY201911$221k27%
FY201811$219kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$981kAnimals$252kRecreation & Sports$212kEducation$126kCommunity Improvement$108kHuman Services$97kHousing & Shelter$92kFood & Nutrition$64kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kids Beating Cancer Inc$460,61577%
Honor Sanctuary Inc$251,97663%
Gina McReynolds Foundation Inc$216,344729%
SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc$136,14750%
Wheelchairs 4 Kids Inc$125,27532%
Jaysmiles Foundation Inc$108,1953n/a
Orange County Police Athletic League$97,452427%
Frontline Outreach Inc$91,97844%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Florida Inc$81,90541%
Blessings in a Backpack Inc$64,17930%
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Where it is load-bearing

Talk of the Town Restaurant Group Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKids Beating Cancer Inc: $460,615 over 7y, 7.3% of budgetHonor Sanctuary Inc: $251,976 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetGina McReynolds Foundation Inc: $216,344 over 7y, 29% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc: $136,147 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWheelchairs 4 Kids Inc: $125,275 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetOrange County Police Athletic League: $97,452 over 4y, 27% of budgetFrontline Outreach Inc: $91,978 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Central Florida Inc: $81,905 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBlessings in a Backpack Inc: $64,179 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCentral Florida Down Syndrome Assoc Inc: $61,255 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetGrace Medical Home Inc: $50,037 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRescue Outreach Mission of Central Florida Inc: $47,490 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetFreedom Ride Inc: $45,638 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetHolocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center of Florida Inc: $29,252 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Greater Orlando and Osceola County Inc: $22,248 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCoalition for the Homeless of Central Florida Inc: $21,863 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFoundation for Orange County Public Schools Inc: $18,302 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVolunteer Florida Foundation Inc: $15,273 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIdeas for US Inc: $8,241 over 1y, 1.8% of budget8 Cents in a Jar Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBlack Architects in the Making- Orlando Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 19% of budgetFoundation for Foster Children Inc: $7,313 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

Universal Orlando Foundation IncFL30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Universal Orlando Foundation Inc · Central Florida Foundation · The Dr P Phillips Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Kiwanis Club of Orlando Foundation Inc · Magruder Chesley G Fdn Im · Acahand Foundation · Harris Rosen Foundation Inc · Orlando Magic Youth Foundation Inc · Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation · The Chatlos Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Talk of the Town Restaurant Group Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Talk of the Town Restaurant Group Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Talk of the Town Restaurant Group Foundation Inc

How much does Talk of the Town Restaurant Group Foundation Inc give?
Talk of the Town Restaurant Group Foundation Inc reported 13 grants totaling $641,611 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Talk of the Town Restaurant Group Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (48%), Animals (12%), Recreation & Sports (10%).
Who are Talk of the Town Restaurant Group Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Kids Beating Cancer Inc ($461k), Honor Sanctuary Inc ($252k), Gina McReynolds Foundation Inc ($216k).
Does Talk of the Town Restaurant Group Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Talk of the Town Restaurant Group Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Universal Orlando Foundation Inc, Central Florida Foundation, The Dr P Phillips Foundation.
Where is Talk of the Town Restaurant Group Foundation Inc based?
Talk of the Town Restaurant Group Foundation Inc is based in FL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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