· Private foundation
Wharton-Smith Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $105k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Central Florida | $1,500,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $1,017,816 |
| UNF Foundation | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| Atlantic Center for the Arts | $25,000 |
| Coalition for the Homless | $20,000 |
| Minneola Horizon Academy | $3,950 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 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, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCENTRAL FLORIDA ZOO2× · 2020–2021 · $100k
- TCTHE CHRISTIAN SHARING CENTER INC2× · 2021–2024 · $75k · revenue +102%
- IRINDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $70k · revenue -74%
Funded once
- FFFoundation for Seminole State Colleone grant, 2024 · $1.5M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $75k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $70k · revenue +16%
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.
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.
University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…
The mission of the florida atlantic university foundation inc. is to encourage, promote, and provide funds and other resources for the benefit of florida atlantic university (a part of the florida state university system) in furtherance of…
The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management. the fsu foundation accomplishes its mission by fostering…
To secure and manage public and private resources to provide optimal benefit to florida's 28 colleges, thereby supporting students who are seeking a post-secondary education that will positively impact their lives and the future of their…
To assist the university of florida in funding of research & development through grants & contractual arrangements & in the commercialization of intellectual properties, which include inventions, discoveries, processes, & work products.
To support the research and sponsored program activities of faculty, staff, and students while providing high quality administrative, fiscal, and support services in a user-friendly and efficient manner. also to create and develop…
To promote, encourage and facilitate the research and training activities of faculty, staff and students of the florida state university through income from contracts, grants and other sources.
College of central florida foundation's mission is to identify, solicit and acquire restricted and unrestricted resources to support the college in providing educational services to citrus, levy and marion counties.
The foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively to receive, hold, invest, and administer property and to make expenditures to or for the benefit of the university of florida. more specifically, the foundation is organized to…
To provide opportunity to young people and develop leaders for industry, philanthropy, education and the community through the intercollegiate athletic experience.
To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.
Soliciting, receiving, and administering gifts and bequests of property and funds for scientific, educational, and charitable purposes all for the advancement of the university of west florida (uwf). to promote and support education and…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN SHARING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SPRING OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wharton-Smith Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wharton-Smith Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Spring of Tampa Bay Inc: 33% of income from government
- Atlantic Center for the Arts Inc: 5% of income from government
- The Christian Sharing Center Inc: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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