· 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 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 $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 |
| Florida Theatre | $2,500 |
| Toys For Tots Jacksonville | $2,500 |
| Annika Foundation | $2,000 |
| Jacksonville Symphony | $1,500 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 39 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Downes Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Downes Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hubbard House Inc: 42% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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