· Private foundation
Hough Family Foundation 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $141k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $875k
- $250k+8 grants · $7.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $3,200,000 |
| YMCA | $1,000,000 |
| THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA | $1,000,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDRENS | $850,000 |
| SIN BARCOS INC | $300,000 |
| ST PETERSBURG FREE CLINIC | $250,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| CANTERBURY ENDOWMENT DISTRIBUTION | $225,000 |
| ST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA | $200,000 |
| SING OUT AND READ | $150,000 |
| READY FOR LIFE | $50,000 |
| GREAT EXPLORATIONS | $50,000 |
| MASTER CHORALE OF TAMPA BAY | $40,000 |
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, $475k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- SPST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $6.8M · revenue +374%
- TFTHE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +50%
- SPST PETERSBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY6× · 2017–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +37% · 78% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $705k
- ECEckerd Collegeone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +23%
- DDMGone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
St Petersburg Arts Alliance is the umbrella organization serving the arts and cultural community: advocating for the arts; facilitating the growth of the arts community; and driving arts-related economics development in St Petersburg and…
To provide educational displays and information on art in our area and to provide scholarships.
To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.
As an arts leader in florida, the ashley gibson barnett museum of art at florida southern college inc (the agb) educates and inspires the community through creative and diverse exhibitions and the acquisition and care of a permanent…
The players theatre's mission is to entertain, educate, and engage the community in high quality live theatre.
The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.
Sarasota Opera produces impassioned opera performances true to the vision of the composer, to entertain, enrich, educate, and inspire a life-long love of opera in our diverse and growing communities.
We aspire to be the premier music organization serving our communities by providing quality, professional performances and educational opportunities.
The st petersburg area chamber of commerce shall be the preeminent leader of business in order to ensure the economic growth and vitality for all in our community.
To inspire, educate and connect our community through the power of shared performing arts experiences.see schedule o for the organization's expanded mission.
The ringling is a place of art, architecture, and circus in an environment that inspires, educates, entertains, and honors the legacy of john & mable ringling.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Petersburg College Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is James Museum 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 39 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 44 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 GREATER TAMPA BAY AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds SIN BARCOS INC ↗
- Who funds ST PETERSBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds University of South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds James Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds The American Stage Company Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SING OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds GREAT EXPLORATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS OF ST PETERSBURG FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds READY FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds VOICES OF HOPE FOR APHASIA INC ↗
- Who funds BURG BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds THE USMMA SAILING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Pinellas Youth Symphony Inc ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS CENTER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SALVADOR DALI MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Eckerd College ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDER OUTDOOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST PETERSBURG OPERA CO 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: Pinellas Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · J Crayton Pruitt Foundation Inc · Francis and Gertrude Levett Foundation · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Thomas A & Mary S James Foundation · Top Jewish Foundation Inc · Rays Baseball Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Sheila a Penrose & R Ernest Mahaffey Charitable Foundation · Raymund Foundation Inc · Westphal Family 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 Hough Family Foundation 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.
- Greater Tampa Bay Area Council Inc Boy Scouts of America — 8% of income from government
- Great Explorations Inc — 1% of income from government
- Eckerd College — 0% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs 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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