· Private foundation
The Zolfo Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Monsignor Scanlon High School | $32,353 |
| Warriors on the Way | $20,000 |
| Cary Academy | $18,893 |
| St Francis of Assisi Catholic Schoo | $13,822 |
| The Smoke Rise Club | $1,443 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 8 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, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
CARY ACADEMY3× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +45%- GRGoathouse Refuge Incorporated3× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +14%
- SSSEASIDE SEABIRD SANCTUARY2× · 2021–2022 · $2k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- SCSPB CLASSIC LLCone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -73%
- SPSt Pete Classic Raceone grant, 2023 · $4k
- SMSt Mary Our Lady of Graceone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
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.
The mission of santafe healthcare, inc. is to serve as the not-for-profit system parent for its family of not-for-profit, mission-driven, affiliate organizations. see schedule o for continuation of the organization's mission. santafe…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Suncoast hospice institute is now inactive.
The mission of suncoast pace, inc. is to provide a program of all-inclusive care of the elderly. pace provides managed care services for older adults and people over 55 with disabilities who otherwise need nursing home level of care. this…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To enable individuals to remain in their homes by supporting compassionate, effective, life-enhancing health and supportive services. at this time, hfk care corporation is inactive.
To create and sustain preeminent senior living communities that provide a continuum of services in housing, health care and other programs to enhance the quality and dignity of life.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Hospice of martin & st. lucie, inc. exists to provide hospice, grief counseling, education and other services to patients and families, dealing with death and dying so that they might live as fully and comfortably as possible. hospice…
The mission of empath health, inc. is to preserve, protect, and advance the mission of suncoast hospice and its affiliated organizations through strategic leadership, support, and service.
How this is measured
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 24 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CARY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SPB CLASSIC LLC ↗
- Who funds COCO POINT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Goathouse Refuge Incorporated ↗
- Who funds SEASIDE SEABIRD SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds THE SMOKE RISE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOSPICE OF THE FLORIDA SUNCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Zolfo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Zolfo Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Seaside Seabird Sanctuary: 0% of income from government
- The Smoke Rise Club Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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