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Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc

Direct support organization of the florida commission on community service.

$9.9M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
59
Itemized grants FY2025
80
Organizations funded FY2024
45%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$9.2M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,730,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 80
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$16M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 45% of the organizations Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.4M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving56$9.0M36%
FY202480$35M45%
FY202377$29M69%
FY202219$2.0M11%
FY202132$7.6M22%
FY202035$7.6M23%
FY201955$4.3M73%
FY201866$2.2M100%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$86MHuman Services$4.9MFood & Nutrition$2.6MEducation$2.4MHousing & Shelter$2.3MPhilanthropy$855kCommunity Improvement$820kInternational$800kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Family Endeavors Inc$12,138,65533%
The St Bernard Project Inc$4,445,000510%
Rebuilding Together Greater Florida Inc$4,147,321522%
Florida Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church$3,074,0996n/a
Inspiritus Inc$3,000,00036%
All Hands and Hearts Smart Response Inc$2,575,000417%
Beacon of Hope Pine Island Inc$2,542,0841n/a
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami Inc$2,046,23833%
The Education Foundation of the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association Inc$2,000,000266%
Volusia Interfaith Agencies Networking in Disaster Inc$1,529,606596%
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All grantees of Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Family Endeavors Inc$12,138,65533%
The St Bernard Project Inc$4,445,000510%
Rebuilding Together Greater Florida Inc$4,147,321522%
Florida Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church$3,074,0996n/a
Inspiritus Inc$3,000,00036%
All Hands and Hearts Smart Response Inc$2,575,000417%
Beacon of Hope Pine Island Inc$2,542,0841n/a
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami Inc$2,046,23833%
The Education Foundation of the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association Inc$2,000,000266%
Volusia Interfaith Agencies Networking in Disaster Inc$1,529,606596%
Sendmemissions Inc$1,468,000336%
Compass 82 Inc$1,442,390414%
The Salvation Army$1,307,6112n/a
The Foundation for Lee County Public Schools Inc$1,250,000217%
Lake Support and Emergency Recovery Inc$1,218,071655%
United Way of Collier and the Keys Inc$1,167,644414%
Alabama-West Florida Conference$1,150,0003n/a
Gulf County School Board$1,125,0001n/a
The United Way of Lee County Inc$1,125,00034%
Florida Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists$1,040,1005n/a
Education Foundation of Sarasota County$1,000,000317%
Project Dynamo Inc$1,000,000181%
Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I$1,000,00014%
Edward Waters University Inc$1,000,00013%
Education Foundation of Collier County Inc$950,000212%
Centro Campesino Farmworker Center Inc$848,51147%
Federal Alliance for Safe Homes Inc$798,124224%
Feeding Florida Inc$771,50043%
United Way of Broward County Inc$740,40641%
The Salvation Army$730,8894n/a
All Faiths Food Bank Inc$725,00031%
Charlotte Local Education Foundation$700,000250%
Cedar Key Aquaculture Association$700,0001n/a
Florida Sheriffs Association Inc$700,00023%
Florida State Lodge Fop Memorial Foundation Inc$700,000265%
Florida Pba Heart Fund Inc$700,000251%
Safe Children Coalition Inc$650,00021%
Senior Connection Center Inc$650,00021%
Mothers Helping Mothers Inc$650,000244%
Bridge a Life Inc$650,000265%
Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratories Inc$633,860229%
Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc$625,00021%
Florida Baptist Convention$625,0003n/a
Team Rubicon Inc$603,52341%
Camelot Community Care Inc$600,00010%
Area Agency of Aging of Central Fl$600,00012%
Nu-Hope Elder Care Services Inc$600,000116%
Area Agency on Aging For$600,00012%
The Desoto County Education Foundation Inc$600,000261%
Senior Friendship Centers Inc$600,00014%
One More Child Inc$600,0001n/a
Northeast Florida Area Agency on Aging Inc$600,00012%
Osceola County Council on Aging Inc$600,00013%
Florida Firefighters Charities Trust$600,000245%
Hardee County Education Foundation Inc$600,000235%
Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida Inc$600,00014%
United Way of Northwest Florida Inc$585,408521%
Samuel's House Inc$573,148419%
The Business and Technology Development Corp$556,2204n/a
St Lucie Habitat for Humanity Inc$525,000213%
Town of Fort Myers Beach$500,0001n/a
The Evangelical Free Church of America$500,0001n/a
Florida National Guard Foundation Inc$500,000191%
Redlands Christian Migrant Association Inc$472,75040%
Better Together Strengthening Familes Inc$450,00023%
Catholic Charities Diocese of Venice Inc$450,00022%
United Way of South Sarasota County Inc$400,000210%
Lee Building Industry Association Builders Care$400,000190%
Samaritan's Purse$400,00010%
Gulf Coast Partnership Inc$400,00028%
City of Sanibel$375,7982n/a
Habitat for Humanity of Bay County Inc$373,88929%
Nonprofit Center of Northeast Florida Inc$356,288326%
Global Empowerment Mission Inc$342,97720%
Star of the Sea Foundation Inc$300,00033%
Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc$263,36640%
Collier County Board of Co$250,0001n/a
Church World Service Inc$250,00030%
Greater Pine Island Alliance$250,000231%
Midwest Food Bank Nfp$246,50010%
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Palm Beach Inc$244,64523%
Habitat for Humanity for Lee and Hendry Counties Inc$228,26821%
Florida Regional Interfaithinterag$226,1182n/a
Rebuilding Together Broward County Inc$225,00029%
Toolbank USA Inc$221,50053%
Bay District Schools$219,8712n/a
The Coordinating Council of Broward Inc$217,746270%
Homeless and Hunger Coalition of Northwest Florida Inc$214,45729%
Palatka Christian Service Center Inc$200,000264%
Communities of Everglades Disaster Recovery$200,000248%
Seminole Home-Based Emergency Assistance Response Team$200,000224%
Our Daily Bread Food Pantry Incorporated$200,00022%
United Way of Florida Inc$200,00026%
Orange County Long Term Recove Dba Rise Orange County$200,000249%
Feeding South Florida Inc$200,00020%
Osceola Redi Inc$200,000243%
Desoto County Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc$200,000274%
Int'L Orthodox Christian Charities Inc$196,18840%
Farm Share Inc$175,00020%
First Call for Help of Broward Inc$175,00012%
Hearts & Hands Disaster Recovery$174,5221n/a
Operation Bbq Relief$171,50031%
Taylor County Education Foundation$150,0002n/a
Lafayette Penny Foundation Inc$150,0002n/a
Suwannee Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc$150,000248%
Ministerio Renacer En Cristo$150,000286%
Dixie Education Foundation Inc$150,000216%
Hamilton County Public Schools Foundation Inc$150,000298%
Madison County Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc$150,000253%
Mercy Chefs Inc$140,00030%
Feeding the Gulf Coast$139,11920%
Florida Presbyterian Disaster Assistance Network I$137,048447%
Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc$132,04521%
Recover Pinellas Inc$125,808318%
Metropolitan Ministries Inc$125,00030%
Florida Emergency Prepareness Association Inc$125,000126%
Community Organizations Active in Disasters Inc$122,43337%
Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc$121,56920%
Rebuilding Together of Central Florida Inc$119,402211%
Disaster Services Corporation-Society of St Vincent de Paul USA$109,75321%
Pasco Education Foundation Inc$100,00015%
Monroe County Community Organization Active in Disaster Inc$100,0001n/a
Daystar Life Center of Citrus County Inc$100,0001n/a
Hernando County Education Direct Support Organization Inc$100,00013%
Pinellas County Education Foundation Inc$100,00011%
Manatee Education Foundation Inc$100,00014%
Catholic Charities Bureau Inc$100,0001n/a
Citrus County Education Foundation$100,00014%
Polk Education Foundation and Business Partnership Inc$100,00011%
Northwest Behavioral Health Services Inc$100,00014%
Highlands Hope Inc$100,000144%
St Johns Housing Partnership Inc$97,13622%
World Renew$96,50020%
Save The Children Federation Inc$96,50020%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$96,50020%
Town of Alford$94,5102n/a
Northeast Florida Builders Association Builders Care Inc$83,955210%
United Way of Palm Beach County Inc$83,20830%
National Church Residences Foundation$78,87721%
Meals on Wheels Plus of Manatee Inc$75,00020%
Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida$75,00021%
United Way of North Central Florida Inc$75,00021%
Coalition of Florida Farmworker Organizations Inc$75,0001n/a
Catholic Charities of Florida Inc$71,5001n/a
Islamic Relief USA$71,50010%
Good360$71,50010%
Baker Senior Center Naples Inc$70,76311%
United Way of St Johns County Inc$52,33814%
Flagler Volunteer Services Inc$52,32736%
Rebuild Bay County Inc Fka Bay County Long Term Disaster Recov$51,11028%
Faith Responders Inc$50,0001n/a
United Way of Suwannee Valley Inc$50,00012%
Stronger Than the Storm Inc$50,0001n/a
Cajun Relief Foundation Inc Gaudet$50,0001n/a
Our Daily Bread of Bradenton Inc$50,00019%
Spca Inc$50,00011%
Jefferson County Big Bend Disaster Task Force Inc$50,0001n/a
Area Agency on Aging of Pasco-Pinellas Inc$50,0001n/a
America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc$50,00010%
Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc$50,00010%
United Way of Citrus County Inc$50,00016%
The Twig Cares Inc$50,0001n/a
Area Agency on Aging of Palm Beach Treasure Coast Inc$50,0001n/a
Family Support Services of Suncoast$50,00010%
Battlefront Education and Wellness Inc$50,000139%
Crisis Cleanup LLC$50,0001n/a
Clothes to Kids Inc$50,0001n/a
District School Board of Taylor County$50,0001n/a
Heavy Equipment Response Coalition$50,0002n/a
Nechama - Jewish Response to Disaster$50,00013%
United Way of Hernando County$50,00018%
Catholic Charities of Central Florida Inc$50,00010%
Lions Foundation of Everglades$50,000232%
Perry-Taylor County Chamber of Commerce$50,0001n/a
Fresh Start for Pasco Inc Care of Janet L Martine$50,000128%
Madison County Strong Long Term Recovery Group Inc$50,000126%
A Door of Hope Inc$50,00012%
Family Initiative Inc$50,0001n/a
Compassionate Alliance Inc$50,00014%
Dream Center of Tampa Inc$50,000114%
Children's Network of Hillsborough LLC$50,0001n/a
United Way of Northeast Florida Inc$45,00030%
Northside Naples Kiwanis Foundation Inc$40,970220%
United Way Suncoast Inc$35,00010%
Arcadia-Desoto County Habitat for Humanity Incorporated$27,57521%
Bread of the Mighty Food Bank Inc$25,00010%
Rivertown Community Church Inc$25,0001n/a
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People$25,0001n/a
Chipola Area Habitat for Humanity Inc$25,00012%
Goodwill Industries - Big Bend Inc$25,00010%
First Baptist Church of Horseshoe Beach$25,0001n/a
Area Agency on Aging for North Florida$25,00010%
First Step Food Bank Inc$25,000110%
Pineland Missionary Baptist Church Inc$25,0001n/a
Florida Alliance for Assistive Services & Technology Inc$25,00012%
Eagles Wings Foundation Inc$25,00013%
Neighbors 4 Neighbors$25,00018%
Catholic Charities Bureau Inc Lake City Regional Office$25,0001n/a
Rotary District 6940 Foundation Inc$25,00018%
Florida Humane Society Inc$25,00017%
Lutheran Services Florida Inc$25,00010%
United Way of the Florida Keys Inc$25,0001n/a
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church$25,0001n/a
Protestant Episcopal Church Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast Inc$25,0001n/a
United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc$25,00012%
Heart of Florida United Way Inc$25,00010%
United Way of Central Florida Inc$25,00010%
Peacemakers Family Center LLC$25,0001n/a
Florida State Animal Response$25,0001n/a
Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc$25,00010%
Florida Goodwill Association Inc$25,00013%
Rebuilding Together Miami-Dade Inc$25,00012%
Hope Animal-Assisted Crisis Response$25,0001n/a
Florida Coalition for Children Foundation Inc$25,00017%
Hurricane Relief God 1st Inc$25,0001n/a
Kingdom Empowerment Church Inc$25,0001n/a
Branches Inc$25,0001n/a
NightRunnersMobileCrisisServicesInc$25,000131%
Polk County$25,0001n/a
Mennonite Disaster Service$25,0001n/a
Habitat for Humanity of Key West and Lower Florida Keys Inc$25,00011%
United Way of Brevard County Inc$25,00010%
United Way of Charlotte County Inc$25,0001n/a
Mental Health America of Ne Fl Inc$22,00914%
A Hand Up International Inc Global Outreach Ministries$20,50013%
United Way of West Florida Inc$20,00020%
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission$20,0001n/a
Taylor County Board of County Commissioners$10,0001n/a
Volunteer Action Center of Broward County Inc$10,00012%
Hands on Orlando Inc$10,00014%
Volunteer Action Center of Miami Inc Hands on Miami$10,00015%
Avon Park Housing Development Corporation$9,3271n/a

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($110k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 36 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 172 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFamily Endeavors Inc: $12,138,655 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetThe St Bernard Project Inc: $4,445,000 over 5y, 10.0% of budgetRebuilding Together Greater Florida Inc: $4,147,321 over 5y, 22% of budgetInspiritus Inc: $3,000,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetAll Hands and Hearts Smart Response Inc: $2,575,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami Inc: $2,046,238 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetThe Education Foundation of the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association Inc: $2,000,000 over 2y, 66% of budgetVolusia Interfaith Agencies Networking in Disaster Inc: $1,529,606 over 5y, 96% of budgetSendmemissions Inc: $1,468,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetCompass 82 Inc: $1,442,390 over 4y, 14% of budgetThe Foundation for Lee County Public Schools Inc: $1,250,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetLake Support and Emergency Recovery Inc: $1,218,071 over 6y, 55% of budgetUnited Way of Collier and the Keys Inc: $1,167,644 over 4y, 14% of budgetThe United Way of Lee County Inc: $1,125,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetEducation Foundation of Sarasota County: $1,000,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetProject Dynamo Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 81% of budgetFish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I: $1,000,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetEdward Waters University Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetEducation Foundation of Collier County Inc: $950,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCentro Campesino Farmworker Center Inc: $848,511 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetFederal Alliance for Safe Homes Inc: $798,124 over 2y, 24% of budgetFeeding Florida Inc: $771,500 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetUnited Way of Broward County Inc: $740,406 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetAll Faiths Food Bank Inc: $725,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCharlotte Local Education Foundation: $700,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetFlorida Sheriffs Association Inc: $700,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetFlorida State Lodge Fop Memorial Foundation Inc: $700,000 over 2y, 65% of budgetFlorida Pba Heart Fund Inc: $700,000 over 2y, 51% of budgetSafe Children Coalition Inc: $650,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSenior Connection Center Inc: $650,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMothers Helping Mothers Inc: $650,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetBridge a Life Inc: $650,000 over 2y, 65% of budgetGulf Specimen Marine Laboratories Inc: $633,860 over 2y, 29% of budgetHarry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc: $625,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTeam Rubicon Inc: $603,523 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCamelot Community Care Inc: $600,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetArea Agency of Aging of Central Fl: $600,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNu-Hope Elder Care Services Inc: $600,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetArea Agency on Aging For: $600,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetThe Desoto County Education Foundation Inc: $600,000 over 2y, 61% of budgetSenior Friendship Centers Inc: $600,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetNortheast Florida Area Agency on Aging Inc: $600,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetOsceola County Council on Aging Inc: $600,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFlorida Firefighters Charities Trust: $600,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetHardee County Education Foundation Inc: $600,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetCommunity Legal Services of Mid-Florida Inc: $600,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetUnited Way of Northwest Florida Inc: $585,408 over 5y, 21% of budgetSamuel's House Inc: $573,148 over 4y, 19% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 172.

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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.

Publix Super Markets Charities IncFL42.1× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · The Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Inc · United Way Suncoast Inc · The United Way of Lee County Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc · The St Bernard Project Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · Making Change

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc

How much does Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc give?
Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc reported 59 itemized grants totaling $9,225,798, out of $9,853,748 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 80 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (84%), Human Services (5%), Food & Nutrition (3%).
Who are Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Family Endeavors Inc ($12M), The St Bernard Project Inc ($4.4M), Rebuilding Together Greater Florida Inc ($4.1M).
Does Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Publix Super Markets Charities Inc, Suncoast Credit Union Foundation, The Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Inc.
Where is Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc based?
Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc is based in FL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 248 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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