· Private foundation
The Rist Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| U-MASS | $945,000 |
| FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN STATE COLLEGE | $400,000 |
| FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY | $300,000 |
| SWFL CHILDREN CHARITY WINE FEST | $40,000 |
| JA BUSINESS HALL OF FAME | $25,000 |
| LEE BIA BUILDERS CARE | $10,000 |
| SHELL MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK | $7,500 |
| VALERIE'S HOUSE | $5,000 |
| IMAG | $5,000 |
| IMAG | $5,000 |
| STARABILITY FOUNDATION | $515 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SWFL | $504 |
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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 7 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, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- ULU-MASS LOWELL FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $2.0M
- FSFLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN STATE COLLEGE2× · 2022–2024 · $900k
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC4× · 2021–2024 · $142k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- 2U2021 U-MASS LOWELL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $1.0M
- SISWFL INSTITUTE OF CYBERSECRUITY AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGYone grant, 2023 · $300k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +272%
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.
Community first credit union of florida's mission is to provide the highest in quality financial solutions for every stage of life.
To provide financial and other essential support to further the mission and goals of the college of the florida keys (cfk).
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.
To secure and manage public and private resources to provide optimal benefit to florida's 28 colleges, thereby supporting students who are seeking a post-secondary education that will positively impact their lives and the future of their…
Charting a course for living, learning, and earning with vision loss.
Curating the world for all children to explore
University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…
To strengthen the larger community by developing and implementing programs and services that lead to institutional enhancement and greater educational advancement.
The florida health care education and development foundation, inc. promotes the educational and professional growth of employees in fhca member centers to support staff stability and improved outcomes of resident care. its mission is to…
The organization was established to receive, hold, invest, and administer property and to make expenditures to or for the exclusive benefit of fgcu or a research and development park or research and development authority affiliated with…
To encourage, solicit, receive and administer gifts and bequests of property and funds for scientific, educational and charitable purposes, all for the advancement of florida international university and its objectives (see schedule o for…
The mission of the florida atlantic university foundation inc. is to encourage, promote, and provide funds and other resources for the benefit of florida atlantic university (a part of the florida state university system) in furtherance of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Cooperative Inc and the most unlike its peers is Imaginarium Group Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 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 HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VALERIE'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE CORAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMAGINARIUM GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds SWFL CHILDREN'S CHARITIES INC SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WINE & FOOD FEST ↗
- Who funds LEE BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION BUILDERS CARE ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS EDUCATION CENTER OF THE ISLANDS ↗
- Who funds CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER 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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Rist Family Foundation 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.
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- Imaginarium Group Inc — 0% of income from government
- Valerie's House 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.