· Public charity
United Way of Central Florida Inc
Mission Statement: To inspire our community to give, advocate and volunteer by identifying needs and mobilizing vetted resources to create positive local change.
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.
The 65 grants below total $8,112,841 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,110,563 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $997,722 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $496k
- $50k–250k32 grants · $3.5M
- $250k+9 grants · $4.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POLK COUNTY SCHOOL READINESS COALITION INC | $824,345 |
| PEACE RIVER CENTER FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT INC | $689,990 |
| Boys & Girls Club Of Polk County | $634,862 |
| Salvation Army Serving Western Polk (Lakeland) | $366,187 |
| FLORIDA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC | $360,874 |
| Central Florida Health Care Inc | $318,937 |
| Central Florida Speech & Hearing Center Inc | $299,897 |
| Talbot House Ministries Of Lakeland Inc | $293,287 |
| The Wilson House Inc | $275,578 |
| Achievement Academy Inc | $230,184 |
| LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER OF POLK COUNTY INC | $223,358 |
| MULBERRY COMMUNITY SERVICE CTR INC | $213,038 |
| FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC | $186,000 |
| GIRLS INCORPORATED OF LAKELAND INC | $184,956 |
| Alliance For Independence Inc | $169,890 |
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, $9.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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 +27% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
103 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF POLK COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $4.2M · revenue +272%
- PCPOLK COUNTY SCHOOL READINESS COALITION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +86%
- PRPEACE RIVER CENTER FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +70%
Funded once
The United Way of Lee County Incone grant, 2023 · $401k · revenue -41%- UWUNITED WAY OF CHARLOTTE COUNTY INCone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -32%
- UWUNITED WAY OF COLLIER AND THE KEYS INCone grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue -13%
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.
To prevent and reduce hunger and homelessness in central florida by equipping individuals and families to become self-sufficient through housing, outreach, prevention, and education.
Charting a course for living, learning, and earning with vision loss.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
Providing home, hope and healing to abused and neglected children and teens in southwest florida.
Helping people throughout life's journey: the organization provides behavioral health (mental health and substance abuse) services and child protective services. people of all ages are included in the scope of our services.
Charitable or educational purposes related to services for persons experiencing homelessness and persons at risk of homelessness in the service area. in pursuance of the foregoing purposes, vfcch shall facilitate and coordinate the…
Providing hope for the homeless and hurting through housing, case management, support services and strategic alliances.
The mission of the lighthouse is to educate, empower and employ residents of pasco, hernando and citrus, fl counties who are visually impaired and blind.
To promote policies that build effective primary prevention and early intervention systems of support for florida's children and families by engaging and enhancing the collective strengths of the individual children's services councils of…
The corporation is organized for the purpose of permanently reducing the number of homeless individuals and families in the central florida region.
Provide guardian and guardianship services to indigent and developmentally disabled citizens with no family or friends to make medical or financial decisions for them in citrus, hernando, lake, sumter and marion counties.
For 80 years, suncoast center, inc. has held true to its mission of "strengthening, protecting, and restoring lives for a healthy community" by providing a comprehensive range of evidence-based services that address emotional wellness,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cbm Ministries of Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sheryls Breastfest Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
204 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 204 of the 300 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF POLK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds POLK COUNTY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds POLK COUNTY SCHOOL READINESS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE RIVER CENTER FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL FLORIDA SPEECH & HEARING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MULBERRY COMMUNITY SERVICE CTR INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL FLORIDA HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER OF POLK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF LAKELAND INC ↗
- Who funds LAKELAND VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE TO THE ELDERLY INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE USA SUNSHINE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF WINTER HAVEN ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE WALES CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds NU-HOPE ELDER CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FROSTPROOF CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Heartland for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of West Central Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds HELP OF FORT MEADE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HEART FOR WINTER HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF FLORIDA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE AGRICULTURAL AND LABOR PROGRAM 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: Givewell Community Foundation Inc · George Jenkins Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc · Glenn W & Hazelle Paxson Morrison Foundation Inc · Harrell Family Charities Inc · Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation · The Libertore Fund for Children Inc · The Campisi Family Foundation Inc · United Way Suncoast Inc · Lakeland Area Chamber Foundation · Florida's Natural Growers 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 United Way of Central Florida Inc 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.
- Hands of Hope America — 98% of income from government
- The Agricultural and Labor Program Inc — 97% of income from government
- Mid Florida Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
- Redlands Christian Migrant Association Inc — 51% of income from government
- Mulberry Community Service Ctr Inc — 9% of income from government
- Central Florida Health Care Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- Academy Prep Center of Lakeland Inc — 4% of income from government
- Tri-County Human Services Inc — 4% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of Central Florida Inc — 3% of income from government
- Peace River Center for Personal Development Inc — 3% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay Inc — 3% of income from government
- United Way of South Sarasota County Inc — 2% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Youth and Family Alternatives Inc — 2% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Volusia-Flagler Counties Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% of income from government
- The United Way of Lee County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Spca Inc — 0% of income from government
- Heart of Florida United Way Inc — 0% of income from government
- Lake Wales Care Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Faith Without Works Inc — 0% of income from government
- Safe Children Coalition Inc — 0% of income from government
- Women and Youth Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay Inc — 0% of income from government
- New Beginnings High School — 0% of income from government
- Catapult Lakeland Inc — 0% of income from government
- Theatre Winter Haven 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.