How much did THE BEAR FAMILY FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of THE BEAR FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

churchchildrenkidsclinic

2019

placekids

2020

escambia

2021

kidsescambia

2022

pensacola's

2023

carenorthwestwildlife

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k31 grants · $108k
$10k–50k12 grants · $158k
$250k+2 grants · $1.4M

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$900,000
UWF FOUNDATION INC$500,000
RALLY FOUNDATION FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER RESEARCH$27,303
PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS INC$17,000
SACRED HEART FOUNDATION INC$15,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NW FLORIDA$15,000
ESCAMBIA COUNTY SHERIFF FOUNDATION$12,500
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NWFL$11,000
INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN & MACHINE COGNITION$10,000
GULF COAST KID'S HOUSE INC$10,000
PENSACOLA LITTLE THEATER INC$10,000
VALERIE'S HOUSE INC$10,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NWFL$10,000
HEALTH AND HOPE CLINIC INC$10,000
PENSACOLA'S PROMISE INC - CHAIN REACTION$7,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $227k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$9.8M · 64 repeat orgs$825k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

64 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.8M

$810k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+20%

Still filing today

59%

34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

PC
PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $417k · revenue +41%
PS
PENSACOLA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION
4× · 2021–2024 · $255k · revenue +18%
SY
SOUTHERN YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION INC
3× · 2018–2022 · $120k · revenue +21% · 27% of their budget

Funded once

TB
TEMPLE BETH-EL
one grant, 2018 · $500k
UH
UWF HISTORIC TRUST
one grant, 2022 · $104k
EC
ESCAMBIA COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $18k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Pensacola Beach Elementary School Inc

Education

Pensacola Sports Association Inc

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…

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Pensacola Sports Association Inc Fka

Recreation & Sports

Pensacola Bay Area Chamber

To be a catalyst for positive and creative action in the pursuit of excellence for the pensacola business community.

—

Pensacola Care Inc

To provide support for developmentally disabled population.

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Pensacola Lighthouse Association

The mission of the pensacola lighthouse association, inc. is to preserve, interpret, present, and keep alive the story of the nation's first port settlement, as symbolized by our working pensacola lighthouse. through interpretive exhibits…

Arts & Culture

Pensacola and Perdido Bays

Pensacola and perdido bays estuary program serves as a trusted source for residents, businesses, industry, and the community on issues relating to preserving, restoring, improving and maintaining the natural habitat and ecosystem of the…

Environment

Pensacola Futbol Club Inc

Pensecola futbol club serves more than 900 local youth in promoting the game of soccer and fostering individual athletic development and team competition

Recreation & Sports

Impact 100 Pensacola Bay Area Inc

To collectively fund significant grants to 501(c)(3) charitable organizations in the counties of escambia and santa rosa, florida.

Philanthropy

Lighthouse for the Visually Impaired

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.

Human Services

South Florida Pbs Inc

South florida pbs, inc. ("sfpbs")comprised of wpbt2 in miami and wxel in boynton beach, televises to the seven-county south florida service area. these are noncommercial television stations and are affiliated with the public broadcasting…

Arts & Culture

Seacoast Charter Academy Inc

Tuition free public charter school serving students in kindergarten - 5th grade, and including a pre-kindergarten classroom as well. our ultimate goal is for our students to not only be successful in school, but to be successful in life.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pensacola Children's Chorus Inc 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 22 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%2/63

the rest of the field

12%

185/1,580

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.

05the grantee network

57 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

55/57

Grantees still filing

37/57

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$7,622,990Health$1,817,520Youth Development$555,000Human Services$226,750Arts & Culture$147,064Education$129,668Food & Nutrition$81,500

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.

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.

Impact 100 Pensacola Bay Area IncFL52.6× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Impact 100 Pensacola Bay Area Inc · Gulf Power Foundationinc · International Paper Company Foundation · Mb Meyer Charitable Tr · Robert H Kahn Jr · Landrum Family Foundation Inc · United Way of West Florida Inc · Art Culture and Entertainment · The Kugelman Family Foundation Inc · The Chadbourne-Demaria Foundation Inc · Fred & Marilyn Levin Family · Switzer Brothers Charitable

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 organisation 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.

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0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SOUTHERN YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~109 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 270116180 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SOUTHERN YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 109 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 27% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Bear Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Bear Family Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE BEAR FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

57 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Bear Family Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

THE BEAR FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

57 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Bear Family Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph