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The Robert a Buzzelli Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Robert a Buzzelli Charitable 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.

$250k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$290kRecreation & Sports$285kAnimals$260kInternational$239kFood & Nutrition$186kPublic Safety & Disaster$130kHealth$105kHuman Services$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF SARASOTA COUNTY$25,000
ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK$25,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY$25,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$25,000
US FUND FOR UNICEF$25,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$25,000
GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$25,000
WILDLIFE INC$25,000
CROSSROADS CLUB INC$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 49% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%DIRECT RELIEF: $15k → 14%MAUI UNITED WAY INC: $10k → 9%HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%TOURNIQUET INC: $20k → 13%US FUND FOR UNICEF: $25k → 17%ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK: $40k → 9%WILDLIFE INC: $25k → 10%TURNING POINT OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $50k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 11%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF FLORIDA: $15k → 12%FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA: $10k → 13%FEEDING FLORIDA: $15k → 19%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $35k → 21%JENNINGS TERRACE: $10k → 8%TOURNIQUET INC: $20k → 13%US FUND FOR UNICEF: $25k → 17%ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $35k → 9%CROSSROADS CLUB INC: $30k → 11%FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA: $10k → 13%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $25k → 21%TOURNIQUET INC: $15k → 13%US FUND FOR UNICEF: $25k → 17%ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK: $25k → 9%CROSSROADS CLUB INC: $25k → 11%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $15k → 21%TOURNIQUET INC: $15k → 13%ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK: $15k → 9%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $15k → 21%TOURNIQUET INC: $10k → 13%ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK: $10k → 9%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $12k → 21%TOURNIQUET INC: $10k → 13%ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $10k → 9%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10k → 21%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA: $40k → 9%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA: $40k → 9%HUMANE SOCIETY OF SARASOTA: $32k → 9%THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF SARASOTA COUNTY: $25k → 9%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY: $25k → 9%HUMANE SOCIETY OF SARASOTA COUNTY: $20k → 9%HUMANE SOCIETY OF SARASOTA COUNTY: $15k → 9%HUMANE SOCIETY OF SARASOTA: $10k → 9%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA: $10k → 9%GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $40k → 9%GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30k → 9%GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30k → 9%GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IA
CA
VA
NC
HI
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 22% of The Robert a Buzzelli Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Robert a Buzzelli Charitable Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.8% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 11 repeat orgs$203k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
10

Total granted

$1.1M
$178k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+94%

Still filing today

73%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsInternationalFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SY
    SARASOTA YOUTH SAILING INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $285k · revenue +48% · 29% of their budget
  • ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $143k · revenue +115%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    6× · 2018–2025 · $124k · revenue +163%

Funded once

  • TP
    TURNING POINT OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +52%
  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -7%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Farm Share Inc

A.farm share, inc. (the "organization") is a non-profit organization and was incorporated under the laws of the state of florida on july 8, 1992 as a 501c3 corporation that is tax-exempt under the provision of the internal revenue code.…

Food & Nutrition
2
Humane Society of Manatee County

The humane society of manatee county leads the community in fostering compassion and respect for animals through quality care, education, and advocacy to improve the lives of animals and strengthen the human-animal bond.

Animals
3
Humane Society of Vero Beach and Indian River County Inc

None

Animals
4
Florida Pointer Rescue Inc

Rescue pointer dogs and treat back to health and f

Animals
5
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Tampa Bay Florida Inc

Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…

Animals
6
Florida Food Force Inc

To fight hunger through united forces/partnerships; provide nutritional food products that will nurture, sustain and enhance quality of life; facility, contribute and promote programs for hunger relief, strengthening our communities.

Food & Nutrition
7
Humane Society of Tampa Bay Inc

The Humane Society of Tampa Bay is dedicated to ending animal homelessness and providing care and comfort for companion animals in need. Our vision is "Leading the way because every life counts". In 2025, we saved 10,631 animals.

Animals
8
Island Harvest Ltd

The mission of island harvest is to end hunger and reduce food waste on long island.

Human Services
9
Feeding Hawaii Together

To combat hunger on o'ahu by ensuring reliable access to nutritious, culturally appropriate food for all.

Human Services
10
Suncoast Humane Societyinc

Our mission is to encourage, honor and support the human-animal bond in the suncoast region of florida. our vision is to celebrate a community whose pets are safe and loved. suncoast humane society provides sheltering, prevention and…

Animals
11
Suncoast Partnership to End Homelessness

Lead agency in the community for providers of homeless/prevention services in manatee/sarasota. responsible to plan strategies with community partners, assist with grants, educate the public, advocate with local leadership, administer the…

Human Services
12
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding South Florida Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/22
Grantees still filing
17/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $135,070 · PhilanthropyGULF COAST COMMUNITY…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $135,070 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDA…MAUI UNITED WAY: $10,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropySARASOTA YOUTH SAILING INC: $285,000 · Recreation & SportsSARASOTA YOUTH SAILI…THE SALVATION ARMY: $65,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYTURNING POINT OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $50,000 · OtherTURNING POINT OF CENTRAL FLOR…HUMANE SOCIETY OF SARASOTA: $42,070 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF SARASOTAWildlife Inc: $25,000 · OtherWildlife IncAMERICAN RED CROSS: $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSFEEDING FLORIDA INC: $15,000 · OtherAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $105,075 · OtherAmerican National Red Cross &…CROSSROADS CLUB INC: $55,000 · OtherCROSSROADS CLUB INCHabitat for Humanity of Florida Inc: $15,000 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherTourniquet Inc: $110,000 · AnimalsTourniquet In…Humane Society of Sarasota County Inc: $70,000 · AnimalsHumane Societ…MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 · Animals+1 more: $2,500 · AnimalsALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $143,075 · Food & NutritionALL FAITHS F…FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $28,070 · Food & NutritionFEEDING SOUT…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $124,070 · ReligionUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $75,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $25,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $15,000 · International
Philanthropy$290,140Recreation & Sports$285,000Other$407,145Animals$192,500Food & Nutrition$171,145Religion$124,070International$115,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSARASOTA YOUTH SAILING INC: $285,000 over 8y, 29% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $143,075 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $135,070 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $135,070 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $124,070 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTourniquet Inc: $110,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $105,075 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Sarasota County Inc: $70,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCROSSROADS CLUB INC: $55,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $28,070 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING FLORIDA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Florida Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetJENNINGS TERRACE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG CAT HABITAT EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Paypal Charitable Giv…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Robert a Buzzelli Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert a Buzzelli Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Feeding Florida Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
  • All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Robert a Buzzelli Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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