· Private foundation
Wayne M Densch Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $129k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $495k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUND | $250,000 |
| CENTRAL FLORIDA YMCA | $200,000 |
| SEMINOLE SOCCER CLUB INC | $135,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CENTRAL FL COUNCIL | $60,000 |
| 100 BLACK MEN OF ORLANDO | $50,000 |
| SUPPORT OUR SCHOLARS | $50,000 |
| CHANCE 2 DANCE INC | $45,000 |
| CENTRAL FLORIDA ZOO & BOTANICAL GAR | $43,940 |
| DARRELL ARMSTRONG FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE CO PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $15,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE STATE COLLE | $6,000 |
| ST JOHNS RIVER FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS | $5,000 |
| KIDS HOUSE OF SEMINOLE | $3,000 |
| STRENGTHEN ORLANDO INC | $2,500 |
| BAHIA SHRINE PROJECT | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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
- SSSEMINOLE SOCCER CLUB INC D/B/A ORLANDO CITY YOUTH SOCCER2× · 2023–2024 · $394k · revenue +19%
- C2CHANCE 2 DANCE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $135k · revenue +111%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE STATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $53k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- WMWAYNE M DENSCH CHARITIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $550k · revenue +27% · 40% of their budget
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FUNDone grant, 2022 · $250k
- WDWAYNE DENSCH PERFORMING ARTS CENTERone grant, 2022 · $180k
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.
Our mission is to generate social and economic impact throughout the tampa bay region by attracting, promoting and/or organizing youth and amateur sporting events and initiatives.
To furnish law enforcement agencies with information on crimes, criminals, and other criminal activity that they would otherwise be unable to obtain.
To enhance the quality of life in the north florida community through the promotion and support of charitable giving.
Advice, counsel, and direct representation in the areas of family law (including divorce, paternity/child custody, and related matters), domestic violence, and immigration (focusing on victims of domestic violence or violent crimes), in…
The mission of the orlando sports foundation, inc. is to promote and provide well organized and efficient athletic and social events in the central florida community to support and contribute to charitable and youth organizations with the…
The mission of heart of florida united way is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our communities. this is accomplished by standing up for the health, education, and financial stability of every person in central florida.
Charting a course for living, learning, and earning with vision loss.
The foundation was organized to support the seminole county sheriff's office through the provision of education, prevention and resources to underserved and at-risk populations in the seminole county, florida community.
Central florida ballet's mission is to entertain, educate, and inspire through the universal art form of dance. with a diverse repertoire of dance productions and programs from classical to contemporary and beyond, each attendee is to be…
To champion a collaborative campaign to permanently connect, protect and restore the Florida Wildlife Corridor, a statewide network of lands and waters that supports wildlife and people. We combine conservation science with compelling…
Enhancing and strengthening our community and our regional core.
Lutheran services florida brings god's healing, hope, and help to people in need in the name of jesus christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Seminole State College of Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wayne M Densch Charities Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 34 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 WAYNE M DENSCH CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds SEMINOLE SOCCER CLUB INC D/B/A ORLANDO CITY YOUTH SOCCER ↗
- Who funds CHANCE 2 DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WUERFFEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE STATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds HELPFUL HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds The St Johns River Festival of the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds LINVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Center for Alcohol Policy ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds ONEPULSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS HOUSE OF SEMINOLE INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Strengthen Orlando Inc ↗
- Who funds DELIVER THE DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC ↗
- Who funds SEMINOLE COUNTY SHERIFF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER 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: Williams Family Foundation · Universal Orlando Foundation Inc · Central Florida Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Wayne M Densch Charitable Trust 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.
- Kids House of Seminole Inc — 10% of income from government
- Orlando Museum of Art 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.
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