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The Spirit Airlines Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$716k
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$72k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$801kArts & Culture$523kYouth Development$325kHealth$321kEnvironment$240kPhilanthropy$215kAnimals$213kRecreation & Sports$151kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $571k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $127k
$10,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$648k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Houston Food Bank$25,000
Tree People$25,000
MAO Arts Studio$25,000
The Treasure Beach Foundation$25,000
The Patch Dania Beach$25,000
World Bicycle Relief$25,000
National Women's Shelter Network$20,000
The First Tee of Broward$20,000
BRCA Strong$20,000
Fundacion El Cielo Papa Los Ninos$20,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Roatan Children's Fund: $10k → 9%Homeless Veterans Services of Dallas: $20k → 14%Mandy's Farm: $20k → 14%Friends of the Underline: $25k → 15%Rebuilding Warriors: $10k → 8%Arc Broward: $3k → 13%Center on Halsted: $20k → 14%Juvenile Diabetes Cure Alliance: $10k → 17%Unearth and Empower Communities: $20k → 14%Urban League Broward County: $50k → 13%Jack and Jill Children's Center: $20k → 13%Jack and Jill Children's Center: $15k → 13%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

NH
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
DE
AZ
NM
SC
DC
LA
GA
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 25 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
88

Total granted

$1.7M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+20%

Still filing today

44%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $382k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $173k · revenue +21%
  • EA
    EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue +40%
  • TI
    TREEPEOPLE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • SC
    SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue ×121
  • BC
    Broward College
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • UL
    Urban League of Broward County Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -1%
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
Florida's Children First Inc

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…

Human Services
2
Children's Case Management Organization Inc D/B/a Families First of Pb County

Families first of palm beach county, through innovative programs, promotes generational change by addressing families emotional, physical, and social well-being.

Environment
3
Families First of Palm Beach County Foundation Inc

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…

Human Services
4
Ywca South Florida Inc

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.

Human Services
5
Childnet Inc

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.

Human Services
6
The Florida Center for Early Childhood Inc

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…

Human Services
7
Kids Beating Cancer Inc

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,…

Human Services
8
Boys & Girls Clubs of Miami Inc

To provide services and programs for children.

Youth Development
9
Blood Cancer United Inc

Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Health
10
The Children's Home Society of Florida

Children's home society of florida mission statement:building bridges to success for children

Human Services
11
Boys & Girls Club of Pbc

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.

Youth Development
12
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

68 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/68
Grantees still filing
44/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Mano Amiga: $217,000 · OtherMano AmigaYMCA of South Florida: $185,000 · OtherYMCA of South FloridaBroward Center for the Performing Arts: $125,000 · OtherMagdalena Morganstern (Honor Flight gift cards): $124,220 · OtherNSU Art Museum: $88,500 · Other+101 more: $1,688,123 · Other+101 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD INC: $170,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY …SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropySHEPHERD C…SACHAMAMA INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropySACHAMAMA …+4 more: $40,000 · Philanthropy+4 moreUrban League of Broward County Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesJACK AND JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesMANDY'S SPECIAL FARM: $20,000 · Human ServicesHomeless Veterans Services Of Dallas Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesCenter on Halsted: $20,000 · Human ServicesUNEARTH AND EMPOWER COMMUNITIE: $20,000 · Human ServicesEarth Force Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesJUVENILE DIABETES CURE ALLIANCE: $10,000 · Human ServicesROATAN CHILDRENS FUND: $10,000 · Human ServicesREBUILDING WARRIORS: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesHUMANE SOCIETY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $172,500 · AnimalsBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC: $40,000 · AnimalsCHILDREN'S DIAGNOSTIC & TREATMENT CENTER INC: $20,000 · HealthBRCA Strong Corp: $20,000 · HealthFCANCER: $20,000 · HealthBROWARD CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $20,000 · HealthLUKE'S WINGS: $15,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE CHARLESTON: $10,000 · HealthGRAND STRAND DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY: $10,000 · HealthROYAL DAMES OF CANCER RESEARCH INC: $10,000 · HealthKIDS KICKING CANCER INC: $10,000 · HealthEast Bay Agency for Children: $10,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthGIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF TROPICAL FLORIDA INC: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMPAIGN ONE AT A TIME: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ATLANTIC CITY INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MANCHESTER: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $50,000 · EducationORLANDO COMMUNITY & YOUTH TRUST INC: $35,000 · Education+2 more: $3,700 · Education
Other$2,427,843Philanthropy$340,000Human Services$237,500Animals$212,500Health$156,000Youth Development$110,000Education$88,700

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $172,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD INC: $170,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUrban League of Broward County Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTREEPEOPLE INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOLDIERS' ANGELS: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF TROPICAL FLORIDA INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetORLANDO COMMUNITY & YOUTH TRUST INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJACK AND JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSACHAMAMA INC: $30,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN ROOTS MN: $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S DIAGNOSTIC & TREATMENT CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMANDY'S SPECIAL FARM: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBRCA Strong Corp: $20,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetLATIN AMERICANS FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHomeless Veterans Services Of Dallas Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetFCANCER: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetGeorgia Veterans Day Associati: $20,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetBROWARD CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCenter on Halsted: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNEARTH AND EMPOWER COMMUNITIE: $20,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S SHELTER NETWORK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKeep Pensacola Beautiful Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLUKE'S WINGS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEarth Force Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetINDIA ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetJUVENILE DIABETES CURE ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE CHARLESTON: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCHILDRENS AID CLUB: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetI HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJORGE PASTORE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetWinterfest Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGRAND STRAND DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetROYAL DAMES OF CANCER RESEARCH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBRIDGING THE GAP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SAFE ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPAIGN ONE AT A TIME: $10,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetHISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKIDS KICKING CANCER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOCCER FOR PEACE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetKEEP TAMPA BAY BEAUTIFUL: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMON THREADS: $10,000 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.

  • 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 GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF TROPICAL FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC ↗
  • Who funds ORLANDO COMMUNITY & YOUTH TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds JACK AND JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SACHAMAMA INC ↗
  • Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE UNDERLINE INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP ↗

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 Batchelor Foundat…Baptist Health South …The Frederick a Deluc…Publix Super Markets …The Thomas Family Fou…The Harry T Mangurian…The Taft FoundationFlorida Panthers Foun…The Jim Moran Foundat…Community Foundation …Blue Cross Blue Shiel…Charles F and Esther …
The Batchelor Foundation IncFL19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Spirit Airlines Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Spirit Airlines Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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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How do I get to The Spirit Airlines Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Spirit Airlines Charitable Foundation 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 148 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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