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The Charles and Jennie Modica Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Charles and Jennie Modica Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 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 FY2026still arriving
8
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$17kHealth$6kEducation$5kArts & Culture$1kRecreation & Sports$916Human Services$600International$445Community Improvement$375Other$0
02FY2026 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$300
Median grant
2
States reached
$232k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAVALIER RESCUE OF FLORIDA$1,000
HUMANE SOCIETY$300
SUNCOAST ANIMAL LEAGUE$300
ST JUDES HOSPITAL$300
CLEARWATER MARINE AQUARIUM$300
CANINE ESTATES$300
ELKS CLUB$278
Individual grant recipient$125
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $200 → 9%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $200 → 10%HOSPICE OF THE COMFORTER: $300 → 11%HOSPICE OF THE COMFORTER: $300 → 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $200 → 9%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $200 → 10%HOSPICE OF THE COMFORTER: $300 → 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $200 → 9%HOSPICE OF THE COMFORTER: $200 → 11%HOSPICE OF THE COMFORTER: $200 → 11%HOSPICE OF THE COMFORTER: $200 → 11%HOSPICE OF THE COMFORTER: $200 → 11%HOSPICE OF THE COMFORTER: $100 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$33k · 21 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2026, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
8

Total granted

$33k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+46%

Still filing today

43%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
AnimalsHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • CR
    CAVALIER RESCUE OF FLORIDA INC
    10× · 2017–2026 · $7k · revenue +472%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    10× · 2017–2026 · $2k · revenue +145%
  • CM
    Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc
    10× · 2017–2026 · $2k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • FI
    FLORIDA INSTITUE OF TECHNOLOGY
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • FA
    FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $742
  • FK
    FLORIDA KEYS ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE
    one grant, 2023 · $375
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.

1
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
2
Their Lives Matter

Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home

Animals
3
Saving Saluda Strays
Animals
4
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
5
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
6
Raskels Rescue
Animals
7
Animal Angels
—
8
No Dogs Left Behind
Animals
9
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
10
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
11
Happy Tails Dog Rescue Inc

The Organization's mission is to rescue dogs from high-kill animal shelters and place them in loving forever homes. All dogs rescued are given necessary medical care prior to adoption, including required vaccinations. Dogs are placed in…

Animals
12
Rescue Coop
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc; the most unlike its peers is AdventHealth Home Health and Hospice Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAVALIER RESCUE OF FLORIDA INC: $7,100 · AnimalsCAVALIER RESCUE OF FLORIDA INCCANINE ESTATES INC: $2,300 · AnimalsCANINE ESTATES INCClearwater Marine Aquarium Inc: $2,200 · AnimalsClearwater Marine Aquarium IncSUNCOAST ANIMAL LEAGUE INC: $2,100 · AnimalsSUNCOAST ANIMAL LEAGUE INCTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,700 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUEL…+1 more: $200 · AnimalsVALENCIA COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP: $3,000 · OtherVALENCIA COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPHUMANE SOCIETY: $2,700 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETYELKS CLUB: $1,194 · OtherELKS CLUBFLORIDA INSTITUE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1,000 · OtherFLORIDA INSTITUE OF TECHNOLOGYBEACH ART CENTER: $1,000 · OtherBEACH ART CENTERFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY: $742 · OtherALWAYS WEAR YOUR SEATBELT FOUNDATIO: $600 · OtherGUIDING EYES FOR BLIND: $600 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $600 · OtherSPACE COAST EARLY INTERVENTION: $600 · OtherALWAYS WEAR YOUR SEATBELT: $600 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $600 · Other+8 more: $1,875 · Other+8 moreAdventHealth Home Health and Hospice Inc: $1,800 · Human ServicesAdventHeal…Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesSoutheaste…GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $600 · Human ServicesGUIDING EY…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,300 · Health
Animals$15,600Other$15,111Human Services$3,400Health$2,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAVALIER RESCUE OF FLORIDA INC: $7,100 over 10y, 0.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,300 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE ESTATES INC: $2,300 over 10y, 0.1% of budgetClearwater Marine Aquarium Inc: $2,200 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetSUNCOAST ANIMAL LEAGUE INC: $2,100 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetAdventHealth Home Health and Hospice Inc: $1,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CAVALIER RESCUE OF FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds CANINE ESTATES INC ↗
  • Who funds Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc ↗
  • Who funds SUNCOAST ANIMAL LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds AdventHealth Home Health and Hospice Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
  • Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds Humane World for Animals 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.

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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 Charles and Jennie Modica Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charles and Jennie Modica Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
1report 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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Find your warmest path to The Charles and Jennie Modica Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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