· Private foundation
Tender Blessings Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUR LADY OF VICTORY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $20,400 |
| MAKE A WISH ARIZONA | $12,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE | $6,000 |
| SARASOTA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $2,850 |
| MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM OF CHILDRENS PROGRAMS | $1,500 |
| CHURCH OF WORLD SERVICE | $1,000 |
| MANATEE COUNTY FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| DESERT BOTANNICAL GARDEN | $500 |
| AMERICAN VETERANS SERVICE | $500 |
| THE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART | $500 |
| ST ANNE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $400 |
| DELL WEBB LAKEWOOD RANCH | $100 |
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 (FY18–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% 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 +72% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC5× · 2017–2023 · $25k · revenue +274%
FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $12k · revenue +48%- CWCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC6× · 2018–2023 · $4k · revenue +323%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO FOUNDATONone grant, 2021 · $10k
- FFOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k
- PCPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundationone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +10%
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.
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…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
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Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 64 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 MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST HOMES & SERVICES ↗
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: Manatee Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tender Blessings Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tender Blessings Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
- Meals On Wheels Plus of Manatee Inc: 0% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: 0% of income from government
- Florida Studio Theatre Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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