· Private foundation
The Bear Family Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $121k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $161k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $900,000 |
| UWF FOUNDATION INC | $500,000 |
| RALLY FOUNDATION FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER RESEARCH | $25,000 |
| CONGREGATION MISHKAN ISRAEL OF SELMA AL | $20,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NWFL | $16,000 |
| SACRED HEART FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NW FLORIDA | $15,000 |
| ESCAMBIA COUNTY SHERIFF FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HEALTH AND HOPE CLINIC INC | $10,000 |
| PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS INC | $10,000 |
| VALERIE'S HOUSE INC | $10,000 |
| GULF COAST KID'S HOUSE INC | $10,000 |
| COUNCIL ON AGING OF WEST FLORIDA INC | $10,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN & MACHINE COGNITION | $10,000 |
| PENSACOLA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $8,650 |
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 (FY17–25, $268k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% 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.
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 +22% for the ones you funded once.
67 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 11 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
- RFRALLY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +151%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +19%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $635k · revenue +42% · 26% of their budget
Funded once
- TBTEMPLE BETH-ELone grant, 2018 · $500k
- UHUWF HISTORIC TRUSTone grant, 2022 · $104k
- ECESCAMBIA COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue +49%
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.
The mission of the pensacola and perdido bays estuary program is to restore, and protect the pensacola and perdido bay watersheds through restoration, education, and unbiased monitoring of the health or our bays, estuaries, and watersheds.
To work with international, national, state and local governments and other public and private entities in the development, organization, bidding, advertising, promotion, encouragement, hosting and the operation of amateur and professional…
The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…
To collectively fund significant grants to 501(c)(3) charitable organizations in the counties of escambia and santa rosa, florida.
To provide support for developmentally disabled population.
The mission of the lighthouse is to educate, empower and employ residents of pasco, hernando and citrus, fl counties who are visually impaired and blind.
Gulf coast partnership, inc. (the organization) mission is to prevent homelessness in charlotte county. the organization is a department of hud lead agency on homelessness in the state of florida. the organization is funded through a…
To inspire environmental stewardship of florida's coastal ecosystems through education, research and advocacy.
Pathways Early Education Center of Immokalee closes the opportunity gap by providing individualized, high-quality cognitive, social, emotional and physical education to children from birth to 5 years.
To discover and foster each student's unique abilities revealing their highest potential within an engaged community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pace Center for Girlsinc and the most unlike its peers is Legacy K9 Search Team Corporation. 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 25 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
74 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. 74 of the 126 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 BAPTIST HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RALLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC ↗
- Who funds PENSACOLA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIAT ↗
- Who funds VALERIE'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST KID'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC GATEWAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM PENSACOLA INC ↗
- Who funds PENSACOLA CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH AND HOPE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds ESCAMBIA COUNTY SHERIFF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PENSACOLA LITTLE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PENSACOLA OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds STUDER COMMUNITY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE SANCTUARY OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW BAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER PENSACOLA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET PENSACOLA INC ↗
- Who funds Pathways for Change Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PENSACOLA MESS HALL INC ↗
- Who funds The Global Corner Inc ↗
- Who funds Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition Inc ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY PLACE 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: Impact 100 Pensacola Bay Area Inc · Gulf Power Foundationinc · International Paper Company Foundation · Mb Meyer Charitable Tr · Landrum Family Foundation Inc · United Way of West Florida Inc · Robert H Kahn Jr Family Foundation Dtd 6/16/98 · Fred & Marilyn Levin Family Foundation Inc · Sansing Foundation Inc · The Kugelman Family Foundation Inc · Switzer Brothers Charitable Foundation · The Chadbourne-Demaria Foundation 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 The Bear Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Center for Independent Living of Nw Fl Inc — 35% of income from government
- Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition Inc — 23% of income from government
- Gulf Coast Kid's House Inc — 16% of income from government
- Naval Aviation Museum Foundation Inc — 13% of income from government
- Manna Food Bank Inc — 8% of income from government
- Council On Aging of West Florida Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- The Pensacola Mess Hall Inc — 5% of income from government
- Lakeview Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pensacola Little Theatre Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pensacola Habitat for Humanity Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Seaside School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pensacola's Promise Inc — 0% of income from government
- Valerie's House 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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