· Private foundation
The Downes Family Foundation
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 $10k10 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $122k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mayo Clinic | $30,000 |
| Our Lady Start Of The Sea Catholic Church | $22,500 |
| BEAM | $22,500 |
| St Vincent De Paul | $20,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $15,000 |
| Malivai Washington Youth Foundation | $12,000 |
| Hubbard House | $7,772 |
| K9's For Warriors | $5,000 |
| Sanctuary on 8th Street | $5,000 |
| Chi Omega | $3,000 |
| Sawgrass Foundation | $3,000 |
| Toys For Tots Jacksonville | $2,500 |
| Florida Theatre | $2,500 |
| Annika Foundation | $2,000 |
| Jacksonville Symphony | $1,500 |
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 (FY20–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
29 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MWMaliVai Washington Kids Foundation Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $55k · revenue +10%
- HHHUBBARD HOUSE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $27k · revenue +27%
K9S FOR WARRIORS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $23k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- MCMAYO CLINIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $25k
- CFCENTER FOR THE ARTS OF BONITA SPRINGS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +124%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +42%
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.
University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…
Support of miami university
To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.
To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…
To create a greater miami where everyone can thrive by accelerating generosity, leadership, and community engagement. the miami foundation serves as a philanthropic and community backbone for greater miami, bringing together donors,…
To enhance the quality of life in the north florida community through the promotion and support of charitable giving.
The mission of the florida atlantic university foundation inc. is to encourage, promote, and provide funds and other resources for the benefit of florida atlantic university (a part of the florida state university system) in furtherance of…
Soliciting, receiving, and administering gifts and bequests of property and funds for scientific, educational, and charitable purposes all for the advancement of the university of west florida (uwf). to promote and support education and…
The museum of contemporary art jacksonville (moca), a cultural institute of the university of north florida, promotes the discovery, knowledge, and advancement of the art, artists, and ideas of our time. moca serves the community and…
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…
To promote and develop professional, amateur, and participatory sports for the citizens of florida and attract out of state visitors through sports, thus creating significant economic benefit for florida.
The foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively to receive, hold, invest, and administer property and to make expenditures to or for the benefit of the university of florida. more specifically, the foundation is organized to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of North Florida Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sawgrass Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 39 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 THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds MaliVai Washington Kids Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HUBBARD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SANCTUARY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds SAWGRASS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE ARTS OF BONITA SPRINGS INC ↗
- Who funds CRESTED BUTTE MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds Mission House Inc ↗
- Who funds ANNIKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds True Blue Navy Families Benefactors Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION 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: Pga Tour Inc · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · The Thomas M and Irene Kirbo Charitable Foundation · United Way of Northeast Florida Inc · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Downes Family Foundation 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.
- Hubbard House Inc — 42% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors 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.