· Private foundation
The Saunders Foundation
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 $10k7 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $237k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Museum of Science and Industry | $200,000 |
| Oasis Opportunities | $40,000 |
| Champions for Children | $30,000 |
| Judeo Christian Health Clinic Inc | $25,000 |
| Voices for Children of Tampa Bay In | $20,000 |
| Eckerd College | $15,000 |
| More Health Inc | $15,000 |
| Seniors in Service of Tampa Bay Inc | $15,000 |
| Children's Home Network | $15,000 |
| Tampa Metroplitan Area YMCA Inc | $12,000 |
| Lighthouse of Pinellas | $10,000 |
| Stageworks Inc | $10,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity of Hillsboroug | $10,000 |
| Great Exploration Childrens Museum | $10,000 |
| Cornerstone Family Ministries Inc | $10,000 |
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, $379k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Saunders Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 89% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +62% since the first grant, against +55% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 5 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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
- TUThe University of Tampa Incorporated7× · 2017–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +77%
- CFCHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $183k · revenue +24%
- TMTAMPA MUSEUM OF ART INC3× · 2017–2023 · $155k · revenue +682%
Funded once
- TBTAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER STone grant, 2017 · $50k
- FWFISH & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA Igraduatedone grant, 2018 · $28k · revenue +169%
- FWFLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTone grant, 2017 · $27k
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.
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…
To develop and sustain a thriving local economy by focusing on the attraction, expansion and retention of high wage jobs and capital investment.
Orlando health is a trusted leader inspiring hope through the advancement of health. our mission as a community-owned organization is to improve the health and quality of life of the individuals and communities we serve.
The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.
Working in partnership with state business leaders to secure florida's future.
As the region's leading safety net hospital, tampa general hospital is committed to providing area residents with excellent and compassionate health care ranging from the simplest to the most complex medical services. our shared purpose:…
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
The mission of the orlando health foundation is to support the strategic priorities of orlando health through philanthropy. this is accomplished through special events and annual major and planned gift fundraising efforts.
To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.
To promote visitation to florida by strengthening florida's share of the global travel market with the goal of maximizing the economic impact of travel and tourism to florida.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tampa Museum of Art 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 41 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 76 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 University of Tampa Incorporated ↗
- Who funds THE TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds OASIS Network of New Tampa Inc ↗
- Who funds TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc ↗
- Who funds Hillsborough Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds Eckerd College ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Chapters Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SENIORS IN SERVICE OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds JUDEO CHRISTIAN HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds LifePath Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of West Central Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds A Brighter Community Inc ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Wheelchairs 4 Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds A KID'S PLACE OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF PINELLAS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Florida Aquarium 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: Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Vinik Family Foundation · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · Frank E Duckwall Foundation · The Spurlino Foundation · Rays Baseball Foundation Inc · Pinellas Community Foundation · The Florida Medical Clinic Foundation of Caring Inc · New York Yankees Tampa 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 Saunders 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.
- University Area Community Development Corporation Inc — 100% of income from government
- Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc — 69% of income from government
- Seniors in Service of Tampa Bay Inc — 48% of income from government
- Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa Inc — 37% of income from government
- Champions for Children Inc — 14% of income from government
- Brookwood Florida Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Centre for Women Inc — 6% of income from government
- Tampa Metropolitan Area Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I — 1% of income from government
- United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Children's Home Inc — 0% of income from government
- Eckerd College — 0% of income from government
- Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc — 0% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tampa Museum of Art Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Holocaust Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Florida Aquarium 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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