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University of Central Florida Foundation Inc

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$47M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$40M
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$4,552,673
Median grant
1
States reached
$679M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA$40,236,436
UCF ATHLETICS ASSOCIATION INC$4,552,673
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION$2,261,444
UCF STADIUM CORPORATION$250,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $40.2M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $217k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $36.4M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $20.5M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $20.2M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $14.9M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $14.1M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $13.8M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $13.3M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $9.7M → 13%UCF CONVOCATION CORPORATION INC: $1.1M → 13%UCF CONVOCATION CORPORATION INC: $915k → 13%UCF CONVOCATION CORPORATION INC: $697k → 13%UCF CONVOCATION CORPORATION INC: $593k → 13%UCF FINANCE CORPORATION: $62k → 13%UCF CONVOCATION CORPORATION INC: $800 → 13%UCF ATHLETICS ASSOCIATION INC: $15.5M → 13%UCF ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $6.9M → 13%UCF ATHLETICS ASSOCIATION INC: $5.7M → 13%UCF ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $5.7M → 13%UCF ATHLETICS ASSOCIATION INC: $5.4M → 13%UCF ATHLETICS ASSOCIATION INC: $4.6M → 13%UCF ATHLETICS ASSOCIATION INC: $4.1M → 13%UCF ATHLETICS ASSOCIATION INC: $3.5M → 13%UCF ATHLETICS ASSOCIATION INC: $3.2M → 13%UCF GOLDEN KNIGHTS CORPORATION INC: $3.2M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2.3M → 13%UCF GOLDEN KNIGHTS CORPORATION INC: $2.0M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1.3M → 13%UCF GOLDEN KNIGHTS CORPORATION INC: $1.2M → 13%UCF GOLDEN KNIGHTS CORPORATION INC: $1.1M → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $919k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $908k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $678k → 13%UCF GOLDEN KNIGHTS CORPORATION INC: $511k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $389k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $357k → 13%UNIVERSITY CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $302k → 13%UCF LIMBITLESS SOLUTIONS: $256k → 13%UCF GOLDEN KNIGHTS CORPORATION INC: $255k → 13%UCF STADIUM CORPORATION: $255k → 13%UCF STADIUM CORPORATION: $254k → 13%UCF STADIUM CORPORATION: $250k → 13%UNIVERSITY CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $227k → 13%UCF LIMBITLESS SOLUTIONS: $160k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$258M · 7 repeat orgs$495k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +148% since the first grant, against -64% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$258M
$495k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+148%
-64%

Still filing today

43%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • UA
    UCF Athletics Association Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $42M · revenue +55%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $7.3M · revenue +148%
  • LS
    Limbitless Solutions Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $416k · revenue +168% · 45% of their budget

Funded once

  • FI
    FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $217k · revenue -64%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $217k
  • UF
    UCF FINANCE CORPORATION
    one grant, 2018 · $62k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field
04the grantee network

4 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 4 of the 10 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
3/4
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA — $183,161,558 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDAUCF ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC — $12,529,854 · OtherUCF ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INCGOLDEN KNIGHTS CORPORATION — $8,967,337 · Other+4 more — $3,992,893 · OtherUCF Athletics Association Inc — $42,006,882 · EducationUCF Athletics Asso…+1 more — $216,675 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $7,332,983 · Philanthropy
Other$208,651,642Education$42,223,557Philanthropy$7,332,983

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUCF Athletics Association Inc — $42,006,882 over 7y, 15% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $7,332,983 over 9y, 7.4% of budgetLimbitless Solutions Inc — $416,112 over 2y, 45% of budgetFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $216,675 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 UCF Athletics Association Inc
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Limbitless Solutions Inc
  • Who funds FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization University of Central Florida 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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