· Private foundation
The Ronald & Joyce Wanek Foundation Ltd
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k32 grants · $160k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $437k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $682k
- $250k+4 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION | $1,139,179 |
| THE STEM ACADEMY INC | $1,138,760 |
| WHITEHALL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $1,019,680 |
| CITY OF ARCADIA | $254,926 |
| FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $115,854 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| TREMPEALEAU COUNTY AG SOCIETY INC | $100,000 |
| BETHEL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $75,000 |
| WOODLAWN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $70,000 |
| ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH | $67,608 |
| SOUTH TIPPAH SCHOOL DISTRICT | $53,917 |
| THE CHRISTIAN CROSSINGS INC | $50,000 |
| ADVENTHEALTH FOUNDATION WEST FLORIDA | $50,000 |
| NEW ALBANY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $34,825 |
| CITY OF WHITEHALL | $34,200 |
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 (FY17–21, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
51 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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
- WTWESTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2022 · $385k · revenue +445%
- DFDRUG FREE AMERICA FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2022 · $65k · revenue +84%
TAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue +118%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3.3M
- WMWISCONSIN MANUFACTURERS AND COMMERCE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $100k
- TCTHE CROSSING CENTERone grant, 2022 · $100k
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 promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.
The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.
The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management. the fsu foundation accomplishes its mission by fostering…
Our mission is to generate social and economic impact throughout the tampa bay region by attracting, promoting and/or organizing youth and amateur sporting events and initiatives.
The foundation raises charitable funds from the public to provide support to the college through student scholarships, awards, and faculty support for academic extracurricular activities.
Established to help sustain the mission of florida polytechnic university to educate students emphasizing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (stem) in an innovative, technology-rich, and interdisciplinary learning environment.
To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…
To serve our members and enhance our community by building business success.
See schedule ocollaboratory is a community foundation with an evolved mission committed to coordinating the solving of southwest florida's major social problems by 2040. since our founding in 1976, we have been supporting local causes and…
Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.
The mission of the association is to actively promote, represent, and support members and institutions as they provide their students and the citizens of florida with a world-class college system.
Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Christian Crossings Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 126 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 STEM ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOODLAWN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds DRUG FREE AMERICA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLEY FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CROSSINGS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds PEPIN ACADEMIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLEY K-12 ROBOTICS INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF TAMPA 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: Ashley Charitable Foundation Ltd · Vinik Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Frank E Duckwall Foundation · Winona Community Foundation · La Crosse Community Foundation · Top Jewish Foundation Inc · Pinellas Community Foundation · Chris T Sullivan Foundation 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 Ronald & Joyce Wanek Foundation Ltd 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.
- Cuban Club Foundation Inc — 7% of income from government
- Academy Prep Center of Tampa Inc — 3% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs 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.
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