How much does The Blue Lagoon Foundation Inc give?

The Blue Lagoon Foundation Inc reported 1 grants totaling $2,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Blue Lagoon Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (51%), Religion (19%), Recreation & Sports (15%).

Who are The Blue Lagoon Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The University of Florida Foundation Inc ($1.5M), Calvary Chapel Church Inc ($922k), Bowdoin College ($395k).

Does The Blue Lagoon Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Blue Lagoon Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Blue Lagoon Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.

Where is The Blue Lagoon Foundation Inc based?

The Blue Lagoon Foundation Inc is based in FL.

The Blue Lagoon Foundation Inc

The Blue Lagoon Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Blue Lagoon 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.

$3k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$3k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.5MReligion$922kRecreation & Sports$723kCommunity Improvement$566kHealth$120kYouth Development$31kHuman Services$15kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0

02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$1.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY	$2,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.1M · 19 repeat orgs$869k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +52% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.1M

$869k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%

+52%

Still filing today

63%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationYouth DevelopmentHealthRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
3× · 2018–2021 · $1.5M · revenue +62%
BC
Bowdoin College
5× · 2019–2024 · $395k · revenue +59%
US
UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION
3× · 2021–2024 · $380k · revenue +32%

Funded once

TO
THE ONESTAR FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $334k · revenue -94%
GB
GATOR BOOSTERS INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +242%
CC
CALVARY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
one grant, 2018 · $125k

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.

04Its field

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.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

University of Miami

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Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

University Athletic Association Inc

Provide a championship experience with integrity on and off the field for student-athletes and the gator nation.

Recreation & Sports

The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education

The Florida State University Foundation Inc

The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management. the fsu foundation accomplishes its mission by fostering…

Education

Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc

Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…

Education

University of Florida Alumni Association Inc

The mission of the university of florida alumni association, inc. ("association") is to exclusively support and enhance the mission of the university of florida ("university") of pursuing "excellence in education and research and shaping a…

Education

Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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Ucf Athletics Association Inc

To provide opportunity to young people and develop leaders for industry, philanthropy, education and the community through the intercollegiate athletic experience.

Education

New York University

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.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Florida Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jamaicas Promise. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 42 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

22/22

Grantees still filing

15/22

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$1,957,000Other$1,700,251Community Improvement$566,077Recreation & Sports$473,240Health$102,500Philanthropy$81,325Youth Development$67,000Human Services$10,000

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.

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.

Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL10.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Blue Lagoon Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Blue Lagoon Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home