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Why Not Change the World 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.

$49k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$16k
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.

Education$63kScience & Tech$30kHealth$16kReligion$5kArts & Culture$4kCommunity Improvement$2kFood & Nutrition$2kYouth Development$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$42k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE GENEVA SCHOOL INC$16,228
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION$15,000
ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTER$5,000
SPIE$5,000
SPACEKIDS GLOBAL$3,000
RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE$1,824
CHANCE 2 DANCE$1,800
SPECIAL OLYMPICS$1,000
REED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$180
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $5k → 9%RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $2k → 11%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA METRO ORLANDO BSA GOLDEN EAGLE DINNER: $2k → 14%SPECIAL OLYMPICS: $1k → 10%THE GENEVA SCHOOL INC: $16k → 11%CHABAD OF GREATER ORLANDO: $2k → 13%RAMAH DAROM INC: $2k → 8%SPIE: $5k → 12%CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $1k → 10%RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $2k → 11%CHANCE 2 DANCE: $2k → 13%SPIE: $5k → 12%ENTREPRENEURS ALLIANCE OF ORLANDO: $1k → 13%SPIE: $5k → 12%CONGREGATION OHEV SHALOM: $2k → 13%ENTREPRENEURS ALLIANCE OF ORLANDO: $750 → 13%ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTER: $10k → 13%ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTER: $5k → 13%REED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $180 → 13%OCA: $3k → 13%4R FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $20k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%SPACEKIDS GLOBAL: $3k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 18% of Why Not Change the World Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 69% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 56%.

Why Not Change the World Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 13% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$86k · 6 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$86k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
-3%

Still filing today

100%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
EducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • OS
    ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue +16%
  • SO
    SOCIETY OF PHOTO OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +13%
  • CA
    CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $11k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -3%
  • O
    OCA
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • CO
    CHABAD OF GREATER ORLANDO
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
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
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
2
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Usf Research Foundation Inc

To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.

Education
5
Florida Institute of Technology Inc

Florida institute of technology's mission is to provide high-quality education to a culturally diverse student body in order to prepare students for entering the global workforce, seeking higher-education opportunities, and serving within…

Education
6
Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford

The principal objects of the University are the advancement of learning by teaching and research, and its dissemination by every means. We work as one Oxford bringing together our staff, students and alumni, our colleges, faculties,…

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7
The Scripps Research Institute

The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…

Health
8
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc

Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…

Education
9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
10
Acec Research Institute

Acec research institute serve as the leading source of knowledge and thought leadership for creating a more sustainable, safe, secure, and technically advanced built environment. identify, fund, and provide industry wide research forecasts…

Unclassified
11
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
12
Nova Southeastern University Inc

The mission of Nova Southeastern University-a selective, doctoral research university-is to deliver academic programs in a dynamic, innovative environment. We foster academic excellence, leadership, integrity (continued on Schedule O) and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orlando Science Centerinc; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
4/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCThe Geneva School Inc: $16,228 · EducationThe Geneva School IncRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $3,648 · EducationRensselaer Polytechnic InstituteSPACEKIDS GLOBAL INC: $3,000 · Education+1 more: $180 · EducationSOCIETY OF PHOTO OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS: $15,000 · OtherSOCIETY OF PHOTO OPTICAL…OCA: $2,500 · OtherOCACHABAD OF GREATER ORLANDO: $1,800 · OtherCHABAD OF GREATER ORLAND…RAMAH DAROM INC: $1,800 · OtherRAMAH DAROM INCENTREPRENEURS ALLIANCE OF ORLANDO INC: $1,750 · OtherENTREPRENEURS ALLIANCE O…CONGREGATION OHEV SHALOM INC: $1,500 · OtherCONGREGATION OHEV SHALOM…BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA METRO ORLANDO BSA GOLDEN EAGLE DINNER: $1,500 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ME…SPECIAL OLYMPICS: $1,000 · OtherORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureORLANDO SCIENCE…CHANCE 2 DANCE INC: $1,800 · Arts & CultureCHANCE 2 DANCE …CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $11,000 · HealthCHARCOT-MARIE-…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER U…4ROOTS FOUNDATION INC: $1,600 · Philanthropy
Education$63,056Other$26,850Arts & Culture$16,800Health$16,000Philanthropy$1,600

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Geneva School Inc: $16,228 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY OF PHOTO OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $3,648 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPACEKIDS GLOBAL INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHANCE 2 DANCE INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetENTREPRENEURS ALLIANCE OF ORLANDO INC: $1,750 over 2y, 17% of budget4ROOTS FOUNDATION INC: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Dr P Phillips Fou…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Dr P Phillips FoundationFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dr P Phillips Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Why Not Change the World Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Why Not Change the World Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Orlando Science Centerinc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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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Find your warmest path to Why Not Change the World 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 18 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-PF 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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