· Private foundation
The Maryellen S Willis Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $153k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Community Foundation for Northeast Florida | $115,000 |
| Basca Inc | $15,000 |
| Downtown Ecumenical Services Council | $15,000 |
| Friends of James Weldon Johnson CPMS Inc | $10,000 |
| Museum Of Science & History Of Jacksonville | $10,000 |
| Friends of Fishweir Elementary | $10,000 |
| Villages of Hope | $10,000 |
| Barnabas Center Inc | $10,000 |
| Jacksonville Symphony Association | $7,500 |
| North Florida Land Trust Inc | $7,500 |
| First Coast No More Homeless Pets Inc | $7,500 |
| Take Stock in Children | $7,500 |
| The Nemours Foundation | $7,500 |
| Presbyterian Social Ministries Inc | $7,500 |
| Here Tomorrow | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +63% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
70 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- BIBASCA INC6× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +49%
- PSPRESBYTERIAN SOCIAL MINISTRIES INC7× · 2018–2024 · $66k · revenue +168%
- MOMuseum of Science and History of Jacksonville Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue +311%
Funded once
- YCYouth Crisis Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +110%
- PCPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +51%
- RARiverside Avenue Christian Church - Children's Art Centerone grant, 2017 · $6k
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.
Junior achievement of southwest florida is a nonprofit dedicated to inspiring and preparing young people for success.
Shades of Autism Parent Network, Inc. is a Florida nonprofit 501(c)3 organization formed to provide peer support to diverse communities with children on the Autism Spectrum. We are an Autism family support services agency that delivers…
The mission of the ljd jewish family & community services, inc. is to strengthen the entire community by providing family and individual social services in the jewish tradition of helping people help themselves.
Inspired by jewish values, we protect the vulnerable, empower individuals and strengthen families. (continued on schedule o)
Florida mentoring network empowers young people ages 13 to 25 through a proven process of growth, connection, and skill building. we believe in "trusting the process"a journey where consistent mentoring, meaningful relationships, and…
The mission of family foundations of northeast florida, inc. is to maximize the potential of individuals and families to lead better lives. we do this by providing mental health, financial wellness and violence prevention and intervention…
Educate, connect and inspire diverse leaders to build and strengthen their communities.
The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…
The Organization's mission and primary purpose is to inspire young people to succeed in a global economy.
To empower youth to be more active in their neighboods and communities by teaching them community improvement and engaging with city, state, and local government to ensure their needs are met.
Since 1981, children's advocacy center of southwest florida, inc. (cac) has advocated for a healthy, safe community for children through a multidisciplinary team approach to child abuse and neglect. our mission is to create a safe and…
The literacy alliance of northeast florida's mission is to improve the self-sufficients, economic mobility, and quality of life for adults through increasing skills and education levels with formal instruction and volunteer-based tutoring.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rising Leaders of North Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Navy-Ortega-Lakeshore Little League. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
84 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. 84 of the 129 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds BASCA INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN SOCIAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Science and History of Jacksonville Inc ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FLORIDA'S FIRST COAST INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH FLORIDA LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds First Coast No More Homeless Pets Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE HAVEN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF JACKSONVILLEINC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHNS RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCENIC JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds MAINSPRING ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH FLORIDA SCHOOL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSONVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BARNABAS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Pie in the Sky Community Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SCAD ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HERE TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds VISION IS PRICELESS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Crisis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHEDRAL ARTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION 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: The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · United Way of Northeast Florida Inc · Pga Tour Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · The Thomas M and Irene Kirbo Charitable Foundation · The Gate Foundation Inc · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Dubow Family Foundation Inc · Csx Foundation Inc · Southern Baptist Hospital of Florida 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 Maryellen S Willis Charitable Trust 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.
- North Florida Land Trust Inc — 81% of income from government
- Womens Center of Jacksonville Inc — 37% of income from government
- Ability Housing Inc — 14% of income from government
- Operation New Hope Inc — 13% of income from government
- Presbyterian Social Ministries Inc — 9% of income from government
- Epilepsy Florida Inc — 8% of income from government
- Jacksonville Urban League Inc — 7% of income from government
- Youth Crisis Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Dont Miss a Beat Inc — 3% of income from government
- Jacksonville University — 3% of income from government
- Groundwork Jacksonville Inc — 3% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Northeast Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- Cathedral Arts Project Inc — 1% of income from government
- Inspire to Rise Inc — 1% of income from government
- Read Usa Inc — 1% of income from government
- Clara White Mission Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children — 0% of income from government
- Basca Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pine Castle Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mercy Support Sevices 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.