· Public charity
Universal Orlando Foundation Inc
The foundation seeks to promote the quality of life in the central florida community, addressing needs and concerns primarily in the areas of education, children, family and basic needs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 42 grants below total $2,802,638 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,938,568 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $135,930 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $498k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+2 grants · $644k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY YEAR ORLANDO | $385,389 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC | $258,750 |
| ZEBRA YOUTH INC | $164,000 |
| LGBT CENTER ORLANDO INC | $153,000 |
| A GIFT FOR TEACHING INC | $152,500 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA INC | $150,750 |
| HARBOR HOUSE OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC | $132,000 |
| VALENCIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $125,839 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE | $103,500 |
| ORLANDO AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS INC | $100,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC | $100,000 |
| BREVARD HOMELESS COALTION | $100,000 |
| GIVE KIDS THE WORLD | $87,750 |
| CAMP BOGGY CREEK | $63,250 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER ORLANDO AND OSCEOLA COUNTY INC | $60,700 |
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 (FY17–24, $3.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 74% 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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
85 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k 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
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +49%
CITY YEAR INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +15%- AGA GIFT FOR TEACHING INC8× · 2017–2024 · $920k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- CRCOMIC RELIEF INC DBA COMIC RELIEF USone grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -76%
- MFMID FLORIDA HOMELESS COALITION INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +7%
- LCLake Cares Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +68%
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.
Orlando Center for Justice, Inc.s mission is to bridge the access to justice gap in Florida for newcomers by helping these underserved communities navigate the legal system through education and innovation. We also walk alongside them,…
Our mission is to provide exceptional dialysis care and services to individuals with end-stage kidney disease throughout central florida. we are dedicated to expanding access to treatment and ensuring all those in need receive quality…
The corporation is organized for the purpose of permanently reducing the number of homeless individuals and families in the central florida region.
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.
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…
Organization mission: florida's children first is a non-profit, nonpartisan, independent advocacy organization committed to protecting and advancing the rights of children and youth impacted by the child welfare, juvenile justice, and…
The mission of ability housing is to build flourishing communities where everyone has a home. its vision is a society where housing is a right, not a privilege; and all individuals have safe, affordable housing in vibrant communities. it…
The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…
The central florida sports commission is a non-profit, private organization created to attract international, national and regional events and sports-related business and activities to the central florida area.
As our region's community foundation, central florida foundation serves as a launchpad for high-impact philanthropy through the collective power of head, heart and dollar, targeting today's most critical challenges.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rise Community Solutions Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greyhound Pets of Americagreater Orland. 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 36 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% 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.
119 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. 119 of the 125 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 SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds A GIFT FOR TEACHING INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity Greater Orlando and Osceola County Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds VALENCIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds ZEBRA YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL & NORTHERN FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL FLORIDA COMMUNITY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Orlando After School All Stars Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFE CONCEPTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Harbor House of Central Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO FAMILY STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR OSCEOLA EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMIC RELIEF INC DBA COMIC RELIEF US ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds LGBT CENTER ORLANDO INC ↗
- Who funds Osceola County Council on Aging Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A COMMUNITY HOPE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds NEED TO READ INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS SERVICES NETWORK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Salt Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL FLORIDA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds STONO INSTITUTE FOR FREEDOM JUSTICE AND SECURITY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR FOSTER CHILDREN 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 Dr P Phillips Foundation · Central Florida Foundation · Orlando Magic Youth Foundation Inc · Magruder Chesley G Fdn Im · Orlando Health Inc · Adventist Health SystemSunbelt Inc · Westgate Resorts Foundation Inc F/K/A Westgate Foundation Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Heart of Florida United Way Inc · Devos Family Foundation · Elizabeth Morse Genius 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 Universal Orlando Foundation 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.
- Homeless Services Network of Central Florida Inc — 87% of income from government
- Help Now of Osceola Inc — 48% of income from government
- Brevard Homeless Coalition Inc — 43% of income from government
- Harbor House of Central Florida Inc — 24% of income from government
- Osceola County Council on Aging Inc — 22% of income from government
- United Cerebral Palsy of Central Florida Inc — 13% of income from government
- Mid Florida Homeless Coalition Inc — 13% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Kids House of Seminole Inc — 10% of income from government
- Idignity Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- The Christian Sharing Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Orlando Science Centerinc — 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Rise Community Solutions Inc — 4% of income from government
- Space Coast Health Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Central Florida Council Boy Scouts of America Inc — 2% of income from government
- Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Arts of Central Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Collegiate Pathways Inc — 1% of income from government
- Enzian Theater Inc — 1% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity Greater Orlando and Osceola County Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Heart of Florida United Way Inc — 0% of income from government
- Nami Greater Orlando Inc — 0% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Garden Theatre Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando Inc — 0% of income from government
- Orlando Health 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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