· Private foundation
The George and Mary Jo Sanders Foun Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k36 grants · $139k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $109k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF FL FDN INC - IFAS | $30,000 |
| LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEMS | $17,500 |
| FORT MYERS COMMUNITY CHURCH INC | $16,500 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $15,000 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| HOPE HOSPICE | $10,000 |
| RELIANT | $8,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $7,500 |
| PROJECT DENTISTS CARE | $7,500 |
| THE BREEZE CHURCH | $6,000 |
| THOMAS EDISON & HENRY FORD | $5,000 |
| CTN10 | $5,000 |
| VALERIE'S HOUSE | $5,000 |
| LARC | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $283k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% 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.
67 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCOMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $128k · revenue +56%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE9× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +134%
- HHHOPE HOSPICE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $106k · revenue +4%
Funded once
The United Way of Lee County Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +64%- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COUNCILone grant, 2017 · $10k
- SCSWFL COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…
Charting a course for living, learning, and earning with vision loss.
We continually convene a statewide community of committed leaders to enhance and recharge their leadership skills and to educate and inspire them to work across their strengths and diversities for a better florida. we engage floridians by…
We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…
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,…
Working in partnership with state business leaders to secure florida's future.
Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.
Fpca's mission is to continuously enhance law enforcement by providing a unified voice for police chiefs statewide and nationally, serving as the public face of law enforcement executive leadership, and providing a forum for executive…
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
Hospice of the treasure coast, inc. exists to provide hospice, grief counseling, education and other services to patients and families dealing with death and dying so that they might live as fully and comfortably as possible.
Hospice of martin & st. lucie, inc. exists to provide hospice, grief counseling, education and other services to patients and families, dealing with death and dying so that they might live as fully and comfortably as possible. hospice…
Suncoast hospice's mission is to be the center to improve life for those touched by advanced illness, death, dying, grief, bereavement and other end-of-life issues.
How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 98 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 LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOSPICE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Desire Street Ministries ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GATOR BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds VALERIE'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BABCOCK NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LARC INC ↗
- Who funds LEE COUNTY ALLIANCE FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PATH2FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THOMAS EDISON & HENRY FORD WINTER ESTATES INC ↗
- Who funds ARTFEST FORT MYERS INC ↗
- Who funds TIM TEBOW 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: John E & Aliese Price Foundation · Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · The United Way of Lee County Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Claibourne F Foulds Fdn Tr · Daniel R & Anne M Harper Foundation · Cape Coral Community Foundation · Collier Community Foundation Inc · Idelson Family Foundation Trust · The Fernandez Family Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The George and Mary Jo Sanders Foun Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The George and Mary Jo Sanders Foun Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Southwest Florida Council Inc: 6% of income from government
- Babcock Neighborhood School Inc: 2% of income from government
- Lee County Alliance for the Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
- The United Way of Lee County Inc: 1% of income from government
- Larc Inc: 0% of income from government
- Valerie's House Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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