· Private foundation
The Solomon Level 8 Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
78% of The Solomon Level 8 Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Tampa Bay Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year The Solomon Level 8 Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $39k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k20 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| CONGREGATION RODEPH SHOLOM | $7,500 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| TAMPA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $1,000 |
| labrador retriever rescue of florid | $500 |
| Florida Southern College | $360 |
| UNIV OF SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION | $350 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $215 |
| Synagogue of the Summit | $200 |
| WUSF | $200 |
| YOUNG ISRAEL OF TAMPA | $180 |
| Glacier Nat'l Park Conservancy | $180 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $150 |
| Muscular Dystrophy Association | $100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
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 (FY17–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 37% of The Solomon Level 8 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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2018, 10 since wound down; 42 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2025, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY3× · 2018–2022 · $55k · revenue +76%- LULEHIGH UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2020 · $15k · revenue +69%
- TJTAMPA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC2× · 2018–2023 · $2k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- SRSTARTING RIGHT NOWone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +6%
- SJST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL OF TAMPA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +994%
- BMBLOSSOM MONTESSORI SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $540
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 fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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,…
The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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 University of Michigan. 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 40 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) — 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 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.
38 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. 38 of the 79 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 JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds STARTING RIGHT NOW ↗
- Who funds TAMPA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds University of South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LABRADOR RETRIEVER RESCUE OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL OF TAMPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GROW INTO YOU FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds COURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION 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: Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Frank E Duckwall Foundation · Top Jewish Foundation Inc · Pinellas Community Foundation · Castor-Bell-Lewis Family Foundation Inc · Edward & Blossom Leibowitz Family Foundation Inc · The Saunders Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment 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 Solomon Level 8 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.
- Bay Area Legal Services Inc — 14% of income from government
- United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% of income from government
- Grow Into You Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Southern College — 0% of income from government
- Menorah Manor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tampa Museum of Art 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.