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Vystar Foundation Inc

Vystar foundation is dedicated to doing good and leading by example through collaborative partnerships that support youth, military members and veterans, and overall community vitality in the areas served by vystar credit union.

$628k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Youth Development$438kHuman Services$190kHousing & Shelter$171kPublic Benefit$80kPhilanthropy$60kFood & Nutrition$40kReligion$40kEducation$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k22 grants · $423k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$873k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$200,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES BUREAU INC$20,000
FIRST COAST HONOR FLIGHT INC$20,000
NORTHEAST FLORIDA WOMEN VETERANS INC$20,000
UNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA$20,000
THE SMALL BUSINESS NATION INC (GEORGIA CROWDFUND INC)$20,000
TOP DOGG K9 FOUNDATION$20,000
FULTON COUNTY SCHOOLS$20,000
REMEMBERING VETS INC DBA REMEMBERING HEROES$20,000
THE 4R FOUNDATION INC$20,000
TRAVIS MANION FOUNDATION$20,000
VETERANS EMPOWERMENT ORGANIZATION OF GA$20,000
DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$20,000
THOMAS UNIVERSITY$20,000
OPERATION LIFELINE INC$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $187k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MARION COUNTY VETERANS HELPING VETERANS INC: $10k → 16%SD GUNNER FUND INC: $20k → 8%SAFE HARBOR CHILDREN'S CENTER ZACH'S PLACE: $20k → 14%IMPOWER INC: $10k → 11%ALACHUA COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS AND HUNGRY: $20k → 19%GOLDEN ISLES VETERANS VILLAGE INC (GIVV): $16k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $11k → 14%GENERATION W INC: $20k → 14%OPERATION NEW UNIFORM INC: $20k → 14%HART FELT MINISTRIES INC: $20k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES BUREAU INC: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

10%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$120k · 3 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
28

Total granted

$120k
$524k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-5%
0%

Still filing today

100%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $563k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitArts & CultureHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NF
    NORTHEAST FLORIDA WOMENS VETERANS INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +21%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue -39%
  • TU
    THOMAS UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue -5%

Funded once

  • HH
    HUBBARD HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +14%
  • HT
    HERE TOMORROW INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • HF
    HART FELT MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +15%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
National Veterans Homeless Support Inc

Mission is to Eliminate Homelessness Among Veterans In Central Florida. Programs include the following: "Search and Rescue", "Transitional Housing and Post Traumatic Stress Awareness".

Public Benefit
2
Tampa Homeless Outreach Inc

To identify, locate, and aid homeless individuals-specifically veterans-by providing emergency assistance, necessities, and housing resources

Human Services
3
Taskforce Fore Ending Homelessness Inc

To get our neighbors experiencing homelessness off the street through proactive outreach and services and provide placement in a program that will help them get "home."

Human Services
4
Tallahassee Veterans Outreach Inc
Public Benefit
5
United States Veterans Initiative

The successful transition of military veterans and their families through the provision of housing, counseling, career development and comprehensive support.

Human Services
6
Ability Housing Inc

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…

Health
7
Housing for Homeless Inc

To increase and provide affordable, accessible, and quality housing solutions and supportive services that promote self-sufficiency and independence for veterans, individuals, and families experiencing housing instability and homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
8
Veterans Outreach of Pennsylvania

Vopa's mission is to stand to combat homelessness among veterans by providing support and services needed to promote an empowered life filled with strength and purpose.

Public Benefit
9
The City Rescue Mission Inc

City rescue mission, inc. (the organization), a not-for-profit organization founded in 1946, exists to transform the lives of the homeless and needy, serving them through the love and compassion of jesus christ. the organization provides a…

Housing & Shelter
10
Homes for Veterans a Nj Non Profit Corporation

Our mission is to provide a holistic approach to support veterans with disabilities by removing barriers in every aspect of their lives. this includes funding customized, barrier-free home modificationssuch as wheelchair-accessible…

Housing & Shelter
11
90 Works Inc

Overcoming homelessness, poverty, and family violence by becoming self-sufficient

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12
Veterans Inc

Veterans inc.'s mission is to end homelessness among veterans by helping veterans regain control of their lives. we believe that all veterans have earned respect and gratitude from our nation. this belief is translated into the philosophy…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Five Star Veterans Center; the most unlike its peers is The Twenty Pearls Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
16/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · EducationKENNESAW STATE UNIVERS…THOMAS UNIVERSITY: $39,965 · EducationTHOMAS UNIVERSITYHUBBARD HOUSE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesHUBBARD HOUSE INCHART FELT MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesHART FELT MINISTRIE…Safe Harbor Center Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesSafe Harbor Center …Catholic Charities Bureau Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities …ALACHUA COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS AND HUNGRY INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesALACHUA COUNTY COAL…The SD Gunner Fund Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesThe SD Gunner Fund …GENERATION W INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesGENERATION W INCOPERATION NEW UNIFORM INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION NEW UNIFO…Golden Isles Veterans Village Inc: $15,786 · Human ServicesGolden Isles Vetera…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,800 · Human ServicesIMPOWER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesMARION COUNTY VETERANS HELPING VETERANS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTH FLORIDAINC: $20,000 · OtherFULTON COUNTY SCHOOLS: $20,000 · OtherDePaul School of Northeast Florida: $20,000 · OtherREMEMBERING VETS INC: $20,000 · OtherGEORGIA CROWDFUND INC: $20,000 · OtherNAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES JACKSONVILLE BEACHES MAYPORT COUNC: $20,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $20,000 · OtherVETERANS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INITIATIVE INC: $17,127 · OtherLOOP IT UP SAVANNAH INC: $20,000 · OtherDR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $20,000 · OtherJACKSONVILLE ARTS AND MUSIC SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherHERE TOMORROW INC: $20,000 · OtherTask Force Hydro 1: $19,965 · OtherBeaches Emergency Assistance Ministry I Inc: $20,000 · OtherCLAY COUNTY RESCUE MISSION INC: $20,000 · OtherAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC: $20,000 · OtherTop Dogg K9 Foundation Inc: $20,000 · OtherALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $20,000 · OtherMaliVai Washington Kids Foundation Inc: $16,700 · Other+1 more: $10,921 · OtherUNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC: $40,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF…HEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyHEART OF FLOR…904WARD INC: $20,000 · Philanthropy904WARD INCMOAACC Good Deeds Foundation Inc: $20,000 · PhilanthropyMOAACC Good D…Travis Manion Foundation: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTravis Manion…4ROOTS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Philanthropy4ROOTS FOUNDA…BEACHES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterRESCUE OUTREACH MISSION OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterIM SULZBACHER CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterFIVE STAR VETERANS CENTER: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Drake House Inc: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterFIRST COAST HONOR FLIGHT INC: $20,000 · Public BenefitVETERANS EMPOWERMENT ORGANIZATION OF GEORGIA: $20,000 · Public BenefitHOPE4VETERANS INC: $20,000 · Public BenefitOperation Lifeline Inc: $20,000 · Public BenefitNORTHEAST FLORIDA WOMENS VETERANS INC: $40,000 · Community ImprovementGrand Avenue Economic Community Dev: $20,000 · Community Improvement
Education$239,965Human Services$206,586Other$384,713Philanthropy$140,000Housing & Shelter$95,000Public Benefit$80,000Community Improvement$60,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHEAST FLORIDA WOMENS VETERANS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHOMAS UNIVERSITY: $39,965 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUBBARD HOUSE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHERE TOMORROW INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHART FELT MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLOOP IT UP SAVANNAH INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTH FLORIDAINC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Harbor Center Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBeaches Emergency Assistance Ministry I Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget904WARD INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCatholic Charities Bureau Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE4VETERANS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetALACHUA COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS AND HUNGRY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMOAACC Good Deeds Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetJACKSONVILLE ARTS AND MUSIC SCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe SD Gunner Fund Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetDePaul School of Northeast Florida: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGENERATION W INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBEACHES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESCUE OUTREACH MISSION OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetIM SULZBACHER CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget4ROOTS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOPERATION NEW UNIFORM INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFIVE STAR VETERANS CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTask Force Hydro 1: $19,965 over 1y, 22% of budgetVETERANS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INITIATIVE INC: $17,127 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetMaliVai Washington Kids Foundation Inc: $16,700 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGolden Isles Veterans Village Inc: $15,786 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetThe Drake House Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMPOWER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARION COUNTY VETERANS HELPING VETERANS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Pga Tour IncThe Community Foundat…Blue Cross Blue Shiel…Jacksonville Jaguars …Charities Aid Foundat…Publix Super Markets …Csx Foundation IncUnited Way of Northea…The Jim Moran Foundat…Clay Electric Foundat…Td Charitable Foundat…Pga Tour Charities Inc
Pga Tour IncFL40× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pga Tour Inc · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Csx Foundation Inc · United Way of Northeast Florida Inc · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · Clay Electric Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Pga Tour Charities Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Vystar Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vystar Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Operation New Uniform Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Hubbard House Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Alachua County Coalition for the Homeless and Hungry Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Im Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Alachua Conservation Trust Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Impower Inc: 5% of income from government
  • United Way of Northeast Florida Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Catholic Charities Bureau Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Goodwill Industries of North Floridainc: 1% of income from government
  • Heart of Florida United Way Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Generation W Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Vystar Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Vystar Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 51 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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