· Private foundation
WJ & Lela Budwine 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Florida Studio Theatre | $20,000 |
| WUSF Public Media | $10,000 |
| Manatee Community Foundation | $10,000 |
| Sarasota Orchestra | $5,000 |
| Women Resource Center of Manatee In | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +91% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $170k · revenue +101%
University of South Florida Foundation Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +55%- WRWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF MANATEE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $47k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- NCNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2.1M · revenue ×103
- NCNational Christian Foundation Realone grant, 2019 · $852k
- CSCal State Fullerton Philanthropic Fone grant, 2024 · $40k
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.
To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…
The foundation raises charitable funds from the public to provide support to the college through student scholarships, awards, and faculty support for academic extracurricular activities.
The mission of the fsw foundation is to support the strategic priorities of florida southwestern state college by providing additional funding and resources.
To empower women to fund transformational grants to nonprofits in sarasota and manatee counties
South florida bible college & theological seminary is an institution of higher learning where the bible is central in preparing men and women for ministry to serve christ and his church through biblical thought and christian life.
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…
Aviva is a not-for-profit organization offering a full continuum of retirement rental options - from independent living to advanced care services that provide security, wellness, intellectual and spiritual fulfillment.
The mission of the north florida college foundation is to identify, acquire and manage assets with the utmost sincerity, honesty, integrity, competence, and transparency and to nurture and assist students in reaching their global,…
To have, to hold and to manage an endowment fund for the benefit of the Florida West Coast Symphony, Inc. d/b/a Sarasota Orchestra, a 501(c)(3) organization.
Provides college scholarships and mentoring programs for deserving low-income children whose household income falls below 185% of the federal poverty guidelines from middle school through college.
Habitat for Humanity of Collier County, Inc. is part of a global, nonprofit housing Organization operated on Christian principles that seeks to put God's love into action by building homes, communities and hope.
To encourage, solicit, receive and administer gifts and bequests of property and funds for scientific, educational and charitable purposes, all for the advancement of florida international university and its objectives (see schedule o for…
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 54 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.
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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 Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · The Mary Parker Foundation 157823-000 · The Tillie Jennie & Harold Schwartz Foundation Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization WJ & Lela Budwine Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from WJ & Lela Budwine Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bishop Museum of Science and Nature Inc: 2% of income from government
- Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra: 0% of income from government
- Florida Studio Theatre Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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