· Private foundation
The Spirit Airlines Charitable 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $571k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $127k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Magdalena Morganstern (Honor Flight gift cards) | $71,697 |
| YMCA of South Florida | $55,000 |
| Mano Amiga | $49,000 |
| The Humane Society of Broward County | $27,500 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters Broward | $26,000 |
| The Treasure Beach Foundation | $25,000 |
| MAO Arts Studio | $25,000 |
| World Bicycle Relief | $25,000 |
| Houston Food Bank | $25,000 |
| Tree People | $25,000 |
| The Patch Dania Beach | $25,000 |
| The First Tee of Broward | $20,000 |
| BRCA Strong | $20,000 |
| National Women's Shelter Network | $20,000 |
| Big Dog Ranch Rescue | $20,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $223k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% 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.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 33 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $382k 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
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $173k · revenue +21%
- EAEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue +40%
- TITREEPEOPLE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- SCSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue ×121
- BCBroward Collegeone grant, 2023 · $50k
- ULUrban League of Broward County Incone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -1%
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.
Organization mission: florida's children first is a non-profit, nonpartisan, independent advocacy organization committed to protecting and advancing the rights of children and youth impacted by the child welfare, juvenile justice, and…
Families first of palm beach county, through innovative programs, promotes generational change by addressing families emotional, physical, and social well-being.
To cultivate financial resources dedicated to building stronger families and stronger communities through the operations and programs of families first. contributing to the foundation is an investment in a safe, healthy and sustainable…
Provide services and programs for women, teens, children, and families of miami-dade county in focusing our mission of eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
Childnet's mission is to protect broward and palm beach counties' abused, abandoned and neglected children, to ensure their safety and to promptly provide them with a permanent, loving home.
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…
Organization - kids beating cancer, inc., (kbc) is a nonprofit, nonstock florida corporation formed in 1992. kbc provides access to life-saving treatments through the science of cellular therapy and advancing pediatric innovative, novel,…
To provide services and programs for children.
Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
Children's home society of florida mission statement:building bridges to success for children
The mission of the boys & girls club of palm beach county is to inspire and assist all young people, especially those who need them most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Juvenile Diabetes Cure Alliance. 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 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 5% 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.
68 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. 68 of the 148 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 HUMANE SOCIETY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Urban League of Broward County Inc ↗
- Who funds TREEPEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds SOLDIERS' ANGELS ↗
- Who funds PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF TROPICAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds JACK AND JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO COMMUNITY & YOUTH TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds SACHAMAMA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC ↗
- Who funds Homeless Veterans Services Of Dallas 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: The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Baptist Health South Florida Inc · The Frederick a Deluca Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Thomas Family Foundation Inc · The Harry T Mangurian Jr Foundation Inc · The Taft Foundation · Florida Panthers Foundation Inc · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Broward Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · Charles F and Esther M Frye 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 Spirit Airlines Charitable 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.
- Friends of the Underline Inc — 66% of income from government
- Urban League of Broward County Inc — 44% of income from government
- Girl Scout Council of Tropical Florida Inc — 14% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
- Jack and Jill Children's Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- Broward Childrens Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Historical Association of Southern Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue 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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