· Private foundation
The Walter Foundation
Its FY2019 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 FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| National Christian Foundation | $18,422,247 |
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 (FY17–18, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% 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 +50% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2019, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18M 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
- TUThe University of Tampa Incorporated2× · 2017–2018 · $350k · revenue +77%
- TCTHE CRISIS CENTER OF TAMPA BAY INC2× · 2017–2018 · $75k · revenue +142%
- TGTAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $68k · revenue +753%
Funded once
- FTFAITH TAMPA BAY INCone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -62% · 32% of their budget
- KGKelly Green Clearwater Martin Luther King Jr Neighborhoodone grant, 2017 · $46k
- MOMeals on Wheels of Tampa Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +91%
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 tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.
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.
To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.
Discovering, preserving, and learning from our region's past to inform our common future. the history center includes three floors of permanent and temporary exhibition galleries focusing on 12,000 years of florida history.
BAYCARE HEALTH SYSTEM, INC. (BCHS) WILL IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF ALL WE SERVE THROUGH COMMUNITY-OWNED HEALTH CARE SERVICES THAT SET THE STANDARD FOR HIGH-QUALITY, COMPASSIONATE CARE. BCHS is the best place to work, receive and provide care.…
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…
The mission of the Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa a/k/a ZooTampa at Lowry Park, is to rescue, rehabilitate and care for animals.(Expanded mission on Schedule O)ZooTampa creates exceptional personalized experiences that connect…
Maintain and raise funds for the benefit of the tampa museum of art, inc.
Partnering with families, TBCA exists to educate the mind, engage the heart, and empower students to change their world through a growing relationship with Jesus Christ for Gods and glory.
The mission of the orlando health foundation is to support the strategic priorities of orlando health through philanthropy. this is accomplished through special events and annual major and planned gift fundraising efforts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tampa General Hospital Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer 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 44 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 72 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 Tampa Incorporated ↗
- Who funds BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
- Who funds CONSTRUCTION FOR WORLDWIDE EVANGELISM INC A/K/A CWE MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds THE CRISIS CENTER OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds FAITH TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Tampa Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds Hope International Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TAMPA THEATRE INC A/K/A TAMPA THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds RTS Missions Inc ↗
- Who funds TAMCO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK VILLAGE YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds The Florida Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds MORE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LifePath Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of South Florida 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 · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Vinik Family Foundation · Frank E Duckwall Foundation · The Spurlino Foundation · Lightning Foundation · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · New York Yankees Tampa Foundation Inc · Clark Family Fund Inc · Mary & Bob Sierra Family Foundation Inc · Triad Foundation Inc
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 Walter 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.
- The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay Inc — 6% of income from government
- Tampa Metropolitan Area Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Florida Aquarium 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.