· Private foundation
Stellar Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $152k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $128k
- $250k+1 grant · $280k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORDIA FOUNDATION | $280,000 |
| UNF FOUNDATION | $67,500 |
| UF HEALTH JACKSONVILLE | $60,000 |
| DEERWOOD ROTARY CHARITIES INC | $40,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE | $30,000 |
| FBH COMMUNITY INC | $20,000 |
| UF FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| FLAGLER COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| THE WUERFFEL FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| JACKSONVILLE ZOO AND GARDENS | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF FLORIDA'S FIRST COAST INC | $8,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| DEERWOOD COUNTRY CLUB | $1,500 |
| DOWNTOWN ECUMENICAL SERVICES COUNCIL INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 72% 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 +43% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $829k · revenue +56%- FCFLAGLER COLLEGE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $239k · revenue +48%
- JUJacksonville University8× · 2017–2024 · $161k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- YYMCAone grant, 2023 · $28k
- MAMUSEUM AND SCIENCE & HISTORYone grant, 2021 · $25k
- JJJACKSONVILLE JAGUARS LLCone grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
As a part of UF Health, the organization'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…
As a part of UF Health, the organization'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…
University of florida jacksonville physicians, inc. is dedicated to making a difference in the lives of those we serve by providing exceptional and innovative practice management in support of the university of florida college of medicine…
Inspired by jewish values, we protect the vulnerable, empower individuals and strengthen families. (continued on schedule o)
As a part of UF Health, the organization'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…
As a part of UF Health, the organization'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…
Wecarejax coordinates access to compassionate care for uninsured and under-resourced adult duval county neighbors during their individual healthcare journey.
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,…
University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…
As a part of UF Health, the organization'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…
Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Jacksonville Inc and the most unlike its peers is Epstein Community Foundation. 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 29 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 156 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 FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLAGLER COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds FLAGLER HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jacksonville University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FBH COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds DEERWOOD ROTARY CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FLORIDA'S FIRST COAST INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSONVILLE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SEAMARK RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds RODEHEAVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Edward Waters University Inc ↗
- Who funds DREAMS COME TRUE OF JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GENESIS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONEJAX INC ↗
- Who funds River Garden Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ANGELWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds WUERFFEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jacksonville Symphony Association 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 Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · Pga Tour Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · The Gate Foundation Inc · United Way of Northeast Florida Inc · Csx Foundation Inc · Dubow Family Foundation Inc · The Maryellen S Willis Charitable Trust · Crowley Cares Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Michael Cascone Jr & Elizabeth Belyea Cascone Family 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 Stellar 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.
- Womens Center of Jacksonville Inc — 37% of income from government
- Im Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless Inc — 23% of income from government
- Jewish Community Alliance Inc — 12% of income from government
- Edward Waters University Inc — 11% of income from government
- Jacksonville University — 3% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- Cathedral Arts Project Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- Leadership Jacksonville 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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