· 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 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 $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 |
| VALERIE'S HOUSE INC | $10,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN & MACHINE COGNITION | $10,000 |
| ESCAMBIA COUNTY SHERIFF FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS INC | $10,000 |
| GULF COAST KID'S HOUSE INC | $10,000 |
| HEALTH AND HOPE CLINIC INC | $10,000 |
| COUNCIL ON AGING OF WEST FLORIDA INC | $10,000 |
| PENSACOLA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $8,650 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +22% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds PENSACOLA OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds STUDER COMMUNITY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE SANCTUARY OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER PENSACOLA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW BAY CENTER 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bear Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bear Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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