· Private foundation
The Gainesville Garden Club 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $4,500 |
| WEKIVA YOUTH CAMP | $2,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| PALM BREEZE YOUTH SERVICES INC | $500 |
| GLEN SPRINGS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $430 |
| FLORIDA FEDERATION OF GARDEN CLUBS INC | $408 |
| FIRST BAPTIST OF CEDAR KEY | $300 |
| NATIONAL TREASURES FARM & NURSERY | $125 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your 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.
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.
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.
Flagler Habitat for Humanity, Inc is an ecumenical christian housing ministry whose mission is to eliminate substandard housing from Flagler County, and to make simple, decent, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action.
The mission of Caloosa Humane Society is to serve, shelter, and protect the homeless pets in our care. We are dedicated to finding permanent and loving adoptive homes for our companion animals in need. Our no-kill facility provides low…
Dedicated to preserving the agricultural rights of those in our community that farm or have an ag-related business. Act as an advocate over local govn't to ensure private property rights.
Income from credit union membership and from investement of member funds provide the foundation from which the organization can function and provide service to its restricted membership.
To assist low income community members with finding affordable housing and learning skills to get a job.
Promoting healthy responsible lifelong pet ownership by serving the medical and rehabilitative needs of animals while encouraging the humane treatment of animals, preventing overpopulation, and ending animal cruelty.
Dedicated to the conservation and preservation of the waters in and around south florida through wise fishery & watermanagement practices, while recognizing the importance of sport fishing to the local economy and the cultural heritage of…
The organization owns and operates a low-cost dog and cat spay, neuter and vaccine clinic for low income residents in the state of Florida.
Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Habitat for Humanity of Lee & Hendry…
To serve the citizens of Clay County, Florida by providing decent, affordable housing for those in need.
Opportunity For All Floridians advocates for hardworking Floridians by championing economic policies that put people over profits ensuring that everyday residents benefit more than large corporations and special interests. We are committed…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alachua County Humane Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Palm Breeze Youth Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 16 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 FLORIDA FEDERATION OF GARDEN CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds ALACHUA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds Created Gainesville Inc ↗
- Who funds Palm Breeze Youth Services Inc ↗
- Who funds ALTRUSA HOUSE OF GAINESVILLE FLORID A INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HOWARD T ODUM FLORIDA SPRINGS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Alachua County Humane Society 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: Community Foundation of North Central Florida · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Gainesville Garden Club Inc 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.
- Created Gainesville Inc — 9% 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.
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