· Private foundation
The John R and Ruth W Gurtler 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of THE JOHN R AND RUTH W GURTLER FOUNDATION 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 $10k3 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $241k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHN HOPKINS SCHOOL OF NURSE | $70,000 |
| THE CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER | $45,000 |
| WINTER PARK PUBLIC LIBRARY | $30,000 |
| GRACE MEDICAL HOME | $30,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA | $25,000 |
| ROLLINS COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| SCOUTING AMERICA | $25,000 |
| A GIFT FOR TEACHING | $23,500 |
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF WINT | $15,500 |
| SUPPORT OUR SCHOLARS | $12,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLO | $10,000 |
| WINTER PARK DAY NURSERY | $8,000 |
| WINTER PARK YMCA FAMILY CENTER | $5,000 |
| FAST START MANAGEMENT INC | $2,500 |
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, $488k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- RCROLLINS COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $390k · revenue +72%
- WPWINTER PARK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $213k · revenue +60%
- AGA GIFT FOR TEACHING INC9× · 2017–2025 · $151k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +261%
- APALBIN POLASEK MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDENS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +62%
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.
To assist parents in developing their children to be strong in mind, spirit, and body, using christ as their example and teaching the principles found in god's holy word, the bible.
To ensure college and career success for high-potential students from low-income backgrounds, and through our efforts help build diverse, equitable, and vibrant communities. we do this through a comprehensive model of financial aid and…
The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Child care
Florida college, as a private, independent liberal arts college, provides a comprehensive undergraduate experience designed to develop students spiritually, mentally, physically, and socially; to integrate into the students' lives the…
Winter park university, inc. (formerly the rocky mountain college of art and design foundation, inc.) (wpu or the organization) was organized to be operated exclusively for public, charitable, and educational purposes. (continued on…
Preschool serving children ages 2 to 6
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.
Our approach is to ensure academic success by increasing instructional time, small class sizes, and providing an academic foundation. our core values are perseverance, communication, collaboration, and critical thinking.
Empowerment through employment for blind or visually impaired individuals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lighthouse Central Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Junior Achievement of Central Florida Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 19 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 ROLLINS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WINTER PARK LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds A GIFT FOR TEACHING INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE WINTER PARK HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WINTER PARK DAY NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds Grace Medical Home Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ALBIN POLASEK MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDENS 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: Magruder Chesley G Fdn Im · Central Florida Foundation · Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation · The Galloway Foundation · James T and Diana P Barnes Foundation Inc · The Lee Foundation · Anderson-Devitt Foundation Inc · The Warren and Augusta Hume Foundation Inc · Westgate Resorts Foundation Inc F/K/A Westgate Foundation Inc · Williams M M & R P Fdn Ta · Universal Orlando Foundation Inc · Heart of Florida United Way 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 John R and Ruth W Gurtler 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.
- Rollins College — 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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