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Foundations That Fund Recreation & Sports in Florida

Imperigo has identified 468 funders that made 2,769 grants totaling $572.0M to 526 recreation & sports organizations in Florida, with a median grant of $16K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.

Recreation & Sports Funding in Florida

Total granted $572.0M
Funders 468
Grants 2,769
Organizations funded 526

Top Funders — page 2 of 4

26. Road Runners Club of America - Jacksonvi
6 grants to 2 organizations · largest $90K · through 2024 · 30.6% of their giving
$172K
27. Florida Lighthouse Association Inc
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $200K · through 2024 · 16.2% of their giving
$200K
28. Tampa Bay Super Bowl Lv Host Committee Inc
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $139K · through 2023 · 100.0% of their giving
$139K
29. The United Way of Lee County Inc
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $451K · through 2024 · 2.2% of their giving
$1.2M
30. The Living Stones Foundation Charitable Trust
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $200K · through 2022 · 5.9% of their giving
$400K
31. Tangerine Sports Association Inc
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $103K · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$103K
32. Bert Fish Medical Center Auxiliary Inc New Smyrna Beach Florida
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $100K · through 2024 · 33.2% of their giving
$100K
33. Florida Foundation for Responsible Angling Inc
6 grants to 2 organizations · largest $30K · through 2024 · 12.8% of their giving
$149K
34. Polywogs Charities Inc
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $45K · through 2025 · 15.4% of their giving
$120K
35. Tampa Bay Buccaneers Foundation Inc
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $62K · through 2024 · 5.8% of their giving
$310K
36. Cps Cares Inc
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $86K · through 2024 · 13.9% of their giving
$126K
37. Universal Orlando Foundation Inc
11 grants to 3 organizations · largest $151K · through 2024 · 3.7% of their giving
$466K
38. Emerald Coast Foundation Inc
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $20K · through 2023 · 20.9% of their giving
$80K
39. Seminole Region Charity Golf Tournament Inc
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $80K · through 2024 · 12.6% of their giving
$121K
40. HCSO Charities Inc
9 grants to 3 organizations · largest $19K · through 2024 · 11.9% of their giving
$127K
41. The Wawa Foundation Inc
8 grants to 2 organizations · largest $324K · through 2024 · 1.6% of their giving
$925K
42. Sigma Delta Tau Society Alpha House Corp
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $71K · through 2024 · 18.7% of their giving
$71K
43. Rex & Brody Foundation Inc
2 grants to 2 organizations · largest $35K · through 2023 · 55.1% of their giving
$65K
44. Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc
35 grants to 17 organizations · largest $178K · through 2024 · 1.2% of their giving
$1.1M
45. Michael and Christine Farah Family Fndtn
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $75K · through 2024 · 16.3% of their giving
$75K
46. Friends of Hawaii Charities Inc C/O 141 Hawaii LLC
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $50K · through 2022 · 6.1% of their giving
$200K
47. Children's Healthcare Charity Inc
7 grants to 4 organizations · largest $224K · through 2022 · 2.4% of their giving
$492K
48. The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc
49 grants to 10 organizations · largest $500K · through 2024
$1.7M
49. Gainesville Quarterback Club
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $21K · through 2024 · 50.1% of their giving
$53K
50. Polk Sheriff's Charities Inc
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $82K · through 2022 · 8.4% of their giving
$124K

Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to recreation & sports work in Florida, not by dollar totals alone — a foundation that concentrates its giving here is usually a better prospect than a larger one for which this is a rounding error. 14 of the funders counted here are donor-advised fund sponsors, which grant on behalf of individual donors and accept no applications; they are marked and ranked last.

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About This Data

A grant appears here when a funder reported it on its IRS Form 990 and the recipient organization is classified under the NTEE group covering recreation & sports work, with an address in Florida. Grants are counted from the 2025 filing year backward.

Some 990 grant schedules list a recipient by name and address without an EIN, and those grants cannot be matched to a classification — so the totals above represent identifiable recreation & sports funding in Florida, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.

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