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The Valor Foundation Inc

The primary objective of this non-profit foundation since 1988 has been to provide for the perpetual distribution of lorraine sinkler writings and class recordings to libraries, select groups, bookstores, and individuals.

$160k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2022.

Health$4kHousing & Shelter$2kEducation$1kFood & Nutrition$1kHuman Services$1kAnimals$1kRecreation & Sports$900
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$99,622
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEN TOBIN FOUNDATION$99,622
NEW JERUSALEM MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH OF HOLLYWOOD INC$60,285
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MORONGO BASIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $500 → 14%ELLISON INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $700 → 14%FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA: $600 → 13%CAMILLUS HOUSE: $500 → 15%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $600 → 17%MORONGO BASIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $500 → 14%ELLISON INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $700 → 14%FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA: $600 → 13%CAMILLUS HOUSE: $400 → 15%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $550 → 17%NEW JERUSALEM MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH OF HOLLYWOOD INC: $60k → 13%SYLVESTER AT UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $700 → 15%BROWARD OUTREACH CENTER: $600 → 13%SYLVESTER AT UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $700 → 15%BROWARD OUTREACH CENTER: $600 → 13%MAKE A WISH SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: $500 → 13%BEN TOBIN FOUNDATION: $100k → 13%HOLLYWOOD POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE: $500 → 13%HOLLYWOOD POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE: $400 → 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.
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.

7%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11k · 10 repeat orgs$160k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
1

Total granted

$11k
$500

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+43%

Still filing today

70%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’25
HealthFood & NutritionAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1k · revenue +12%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1k · revenue +74%
  • MB
    MORONGO BASIN HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1k · revenue +118%

Funded once

  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INCgraduated
    2× · 2021–2022 · $500 · revenue +43%
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
H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Hospital Inc

The primary purpose of the h. lee moffitt cancer center and research institute hospital, inc. ("hospital") is to contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer.

Health
2
St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc

St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…

Health
3
The Shriners' Hospital for Children

Shriners children's is committed to compassionate, high-quality care that improves children's lives, in a family-centered and collaborative environment. (continued on schedule o)

Health
4
Adom Health Foundation Inc

The mission of adom health foundation, inc. is to provides compassionate and philanthropic support for the health care ministry of the congregation of the sisters of st. joseph of st. augustine, florida, to the uninsured and underserved in…

Health
5
St John Bosco Clinic Inc

The mission of st. john bosco clinic is to serve the basic primary medical needs of the uninsured and underserved children and adults in miami-dade county, without regard to the person's race, age, gender, ethnicity or religious…

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6
Florida Health Sciences Center Inc

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:…

Health
7
Mariners Hospital Inc

As part of the baptist health network, the mission of mariners hospital inc is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist health is a…

Health
8
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc

Sarasota memorial healthcare foundation is the philanthropic partner that helps sarasota memorial health care system bring world-class care to our community.

Health
9
Mila's Miracle Foundation

The mission of mila's miracle foundation is to find and fund paths to a cure for batten and other life-threatening neurological disorders. families in this community have been pivotal in raising the necessary funds and awareness. together,…

Health
10
Bethesda Hospital Foundation Inc

Bethesda hospital foundation is a not-for-profit organization established for the benefit and support of bethesda hospital. its purpose is to assist the hospital in accomplishing its mission through the acquisition, management and…

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11
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
12
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Southern Florida Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Ben Tobin Foundation. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEN TOBIN FOUNDATION: $99,622 · OtherBEN TOBIN FOUNDATIONNEW JERUSALEM MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH OF HOLLYWOOD INC: $60,285 · OtherNEW JERUSALEM MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH OF HOLLYWOOD INC+4 more: $4,400 · OtherELLISON INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,400 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,200 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,150 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: $500 · HealthFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $1,200 · Food & NutritionMORONGO BASIN HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · AnimalsTHE COSAC FOUNDATION INC: $900 · Human Services
Other$164,307Health$4,250Food & Nutrition$1,200Animals$1,000Human Services$900

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetELLISON INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMORONGO BASIN HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCAMILLUS HOUSE INC: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COSAC FOUNDATION INC: $900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Valor Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Valor Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Camillus House Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Cosac Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 Valor Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Valor Foundation Inc 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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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