· Public charity
Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc
Direct support organization of the florida commission on community service.
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 59 grants below total $9,225,798 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,853,748 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $627,950 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
- $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k46 grants · $3.4M
- $250k+8 grants · $5.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REBUILDING TOGETHER TAMPA BAY INC | $1,730,000 |
| FISH & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA INC | $1,000,000 |
| ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE | $550,000 |
| COMPASS 82 INC | $500,000 |
| INSPIRITUS INC | $500,000 |
| LAKE SUPPORT AND EMERGENCY RECOVERY INC | $500,000 |
| FAMILY ENDEAVORS INC | $500,000 |
| SENDMEMISSIONS INC | $500,000 |
| FLORIDA PBA HEART FUND INC | $200,000 |
| FLORIDA STATE LODGE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC | $200,000 |
| FLORIDA SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATION | $200,000 |
| CITY OF SANIBEL | $125,798 |
| CHARLOTTE LOCAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC | $100,000 |
| CITRUS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $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 (FY18–25, $14.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 7% of Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc’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. Read by recipient address, 67% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 63% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +5% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
114 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 78 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M 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
- RTREBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER FLORIDA INC5× · 2019–2025 · $4.1M · revenue +471%
- IIInspiritus Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +71%
ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC4× · 2018–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +129%
Funded once
- BOBEACON OF HOPE PINE ISLAND INCone grant, 2024 · $2.5M · revenue -70%
- GCGULF COUNTY SCHOOL BOARDone grant, 2020 · $1.1M
- EWEdward Waters University Incone grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue +8%
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.
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.
The corporation is organized for the purpose of permanently reducing the number of homeless individuals and families in the central florida region.
The florida health care education and development foundation, inc. promotes the educational and professional growth of employees in fhca member centers to support staff stability and improved outcomes of resident care. its mission is to…
To promote economic mobility by helping people living in poverty achieve self-sufficiency.
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…
To fight hunger through united forces/partnerships; provide nutritional food products that will nurture, sustain and enhance quality of life; facility, contribute and promote programs for hunger relief, strengthening our communities.
Lead agency in the community for providers of homeless/prevention services in manatee/sarasota. responsible to plan strategies with community partners, assist with grants, educate the public, advocate with local leadership, administer the…
The Corporation at all times shall be operated for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, and to carry out the purposes of Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida, Inc., a Florida not for profit corporation d/b/a Feeding Northeast…
Florida impact to end hunger is dedicated to advancing health equity by ending hunger for all floridians. we mobilize communities to maximize access to federal, state, and local food and nutrition programs with a focus on florida's most…
Provide assistance in the formation of capital to support affordable housing and other related community development initiatives in central florida.
To support the planning, delivery and coordination of high quality services to the hungry, homeless and those at-risk of homelessness in collier county.
The annual financial capability training conference brings together leaders and practitioners of all levels representing non-profit organizations large and small, financial institutions, academic circles, for-profit organizations and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbors 4 Neighbors and the most unlike its peers is Florida State Animal Response. 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 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
198 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. 198 of the 248 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 FAMILY ENDEAVORS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Inspiritus Inc ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds BEACON OF HOPE PINE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUSIA INTERFAITH AGENCIES NETWORKING IN DISASTER INC ↗
- Who funds SENDMEMISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS 82 INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR LEE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE SUPPORT AND EMERGENCY RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COLLIER AND THE KEYS INC ↗
- Who funds The United Way of Lee County Inc ↗
- Who funds FISH & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA I ↗
- Who funds Edward Waters University Inc ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT DYNAMO INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO CAMPESINO FARMWORKER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERAL ALLIANCE FOR SAFE HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA PBA HEART FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STATE LODGE FOP MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE LOCAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds Senior Connection Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SAFE CHILDREN COALITION 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: 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
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 Volunteer 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc — 69% of income from government
- Compass 82 Inc — 61% of income from government
- Redlands Christian Migrant Association Inc — 51% of income from government
- Feeding Florida Inc — 32% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Flagler Volunteer Services Inc — 29% of income from government
- Gulf Coast Partnership Inc — 28% of income from government
- United Way of Broward County Inc — 27% of income from government
- St Johns Housing Partnership Inc — 26% of income from government
- United Way Miami Inc — 23% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami Inc — 22% of income from government
- Osceola County Council on Aging Inc — 22% of income from government
- Community Organizations Active in Disasters Inc — 18% of income from government
- Federal Alliance for Safe Homes Inc — 16% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Palm Beach Inc — 12% of income from government
- United Way of Suwannee Valley Inc — 12% of income from government
- Edward Waters University Inc — 11% of income from government
- Star of the Sea Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Homeless and Hunger Coalition of Northwest Florida Inc — 7% of income from government
- Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc — 7% of income from government
- America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc — 6% of income from government
- Farm Share Inc — 6% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida — 5% of income from government
- Arcadia-Desoto County Habitat for Humanity Incorporated — 5% of income from government
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of Central Florida Inc — 3% of income from government
- Area Agency On Aging of Pasco-Pinellas Inc — 3% of income from government
- United Way of North Central Florida Inc — 3% of income from government
- Coalition of Florida Farmworker Organizations 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
- Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc — 2% of income from government
- Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Northwest Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- Area Agency On Aging for — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Northeast Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Volusia-Flagler Counties Inc — 2% of income from government
- Area Agency On Aging of Palm Beach Treasure Coast Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Hernando County — 1% of income from government
- United Way of Palm Beach County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I — 1% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% of income from government
- United Way of St Johns County Inc — 1% of income from government
- The United Way of Lee County Inc — 1% of income from government
- United Way of Brevard County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Spca Inc — 0% of income from government
- Meals On Wheels Plus of Manatee Inc — 0% of income from government
- Heart of Florida United Way Inc — 0% of income from government
- Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Safe Children Coalition Inc — 0% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Camelot Community Care Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pasco Education Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Sendmemissions Inc — 0% of income from government
- Samuel's House Inc — 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission 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.