· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| IMAG | $5,000 |
| VALERIE'S HOUSE | $5,000 |
| IMAG | $5,000 |
| STARABILITY FOUNDATION | $515 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SWFL | $504 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- SRSWFL RESPIRATORY CLASSROOM AND SIMULATION LABone grant, 2023 · $100k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 CAPE CORAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds SWFL CHILDREN'S CHARITIES INC SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WINE & FOOD FEST ↗
- Who funds IMAGINARIUM GROUP INC ↗
- 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Rist Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rist Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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