· Private foundation
Volo Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $421k
- $50k–250k29 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+9 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND EDF | $3,938,522 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKLEY FOUNDATION | $1,463,271 |
| CLEO INSTITUTE INC | $1,321,749 |
| DEPLOYUS | $1,150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $1,100,000 |
| NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $336,000 |
| AMPLIO NETWORK | $300,000 |
| SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS INC | $275,000 |
| PLACE OF HOPE | $200,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC | $200,000 |
| THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION | $130,000 |
| THE CLIMATE GROUP | $125,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $105,000 |
| H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
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, $3.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Volo Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +49% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
81 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 9 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M 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
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +202%- TCTHE CLEO INSTITUTE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +287% · 62% of their budget
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC6× · 2017–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +41%
Funded once
- FFFOUNDATION FOR LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE INCone grant, 2023 · $3.0M · revenue -95% · 83% of their budget
- SCSACHAMAMA CENTER FOR BIOLCULTURAL REGENERATIONone grant, 2019 · $80k
- TLTRAS LA PERLA USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $52k · revenue +52% · 49% of their budget
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…
Working in partnership with state business leaders to secure florida's future.
The mission of Ocean First Institute is ocean conservation through research and education. We work to deepen the natural connection between people and the ocean. We educate and empower people to understand the ocean is our life support…
Climateworks foundation's mission is to connect philanthropy, grantees, and strategic partners to build and deliver high-impact climate solutions that benefit all people.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
My green lab's mission is to build a culture of sustainability in science to transform the industry into a global leader on environmental sustainability. through education, community engagement, and leading-edge certification programs, we…
The advancement of marine and environmental sciences through scientific research, education and public outreach, leading new discoveries, revitalization and sustainability of our oceans and greater public understanding of our marine…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tras La Perla Usa Inc. 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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
116 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. 116 of the 153 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 ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE CLEO INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds AMPLIO NETWORK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds DEPLOYUS INC ↗
- Who funds PUNAHOU SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds JUST CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds SACHAMAMA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WATER PEOPLE THEATER GROUP NFP ↗
- Who funds PLACE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ALIANZA INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE LORD'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE KING'S ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Solutions From The Land ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
- Who funds THE BENJAMIN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
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: United States Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Energy Foundation · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · The Dr P Phillips Foundation · Allegany Franciscan Ministries Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation · Universal Orlando Foundation Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Orlando Magic Youth 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 Volo 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Ideas for Us Inc — 35% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc — 19% of income from government
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc — 6% of income from government
- Community Greening Corp — 5% of income from government
- Orlando Science Centerinc — 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- Florida Next Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Bike Walk Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Oceanographic Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- For Good Movement Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rethink Energy Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Place of Hope 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.