· Private foundation
The George and Mary Jo Sanders Foun Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of THE GEORGE AND MARY JO SANDERS FOUN INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $10,000 |
| HOPE HOSPICE | $10,000 |
| RELIANT | $8,000 |
| PROJECT DENTISTS CARE | $7,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $7,500 |
| THE BREEZE CHURCH | $6,000 |
| DESIRE STREET MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| THOMAS EDISON & HENRY FORD | $5,000 |
| FORT MYERS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CTN10 | $5,000 |
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 (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 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +82% since the first grant, against +64% for the ones you 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
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
- 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
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Cooperative Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fort Myers High School Athletic Booster Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 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. 39 of the 98 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 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 ↗
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: 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
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 George and Mary Jo Sanders Foun 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.
- 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
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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