Suncoast Credit Union
Tampa, FL · EIN 59-0291451. Reported 52 grants totalling $3,913,945 to 28 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Suncoast Credit Union, the IRS classifies it under public & societal benefit rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE W61) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 28 distinct organizations, with 26% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 73% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $85,000; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $500,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suncoast Credit Union Foundation | Tampa, FL | $1,025,775 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| National Credit Union Foundation Inc | Madison, WI | $566,387 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Southeastern Credit Union Foundation Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $299,901 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cu Awareness LLC | Madison, WI | $225,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Tampa Bay Area Credit Unions for Kids Inc | Tampa, FL | $199,868 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Tampa Bay Economic Prosperity Foundation | Tampa, FL | $150,132 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Partnership for Strong Families Inc | Gainesville, FL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc | Tampa, FL | $79,627 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Arbor Day Foundation | Lincoln, NE | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| United Way Suncoast Inc | Tampa, FL | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Credit Union National Association Inc | Madison, WI | $65,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Worldwide Foundation for Credit Unions Inc | Madison, WI | $55,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hillsborough Education Foundation Inc | Tampa, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful Inc | Tampa, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hillsborough Organization for Progress and Equality Inc | Tampa, FL | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| African American Credit Union Coalition | Snellville, GA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The School District of Osceola County Fl | Kissimmee, FL | $19,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Central Florida Basketball Partners LLC | Orlando, FL | $10,455 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| All Hands and Hearts Smart Response Inc | Mattapoisett, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Members Development Company LLC | Middleton, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Town of Horseshoe Beach | Horseshoe Beach, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Way of Central Florida Inc | Lakeland, FL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Humane Society of Tampa Bay Inc | Tampa, FL | $7,400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pinella County Sheriffs Police Athletic League Inc | St Petersburg, FL | $5,900 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hardee County Ministerial Association Inc | Wauchula, FL | $5,700 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Golisano Childrens Museum of Naples Inc | Naples, FL | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
10 of 28 (36%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Volunteer Florida Foundation
TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE FOR HURRICANE IAN - Suncoast Cu Foundation
FUNDING EDUCATION & MEDICAL NEEDS OF CHILDREN IN FLORIDA - American Red Cross of Central Florida
TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE FOR HURRICANE HELENE AND MILTON. - National Credit Union Foundation
TO FUND PROGRAMS THAT HELP IMPROVE CONSUMER'S FINANCIAL LIVES & SUNCOAST GAC ATTENDEES ATTENDED DINNER TO SUPPORT HERB WAGNER AWARD WINNERS. - League of Southeastern Cu
TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO SMALLER CREDIT UNIONS - Cu Awareness LLC
TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO CREDIT UNIONS TO GET THE ATTENTION AND CONSIDERATION THEY DESERVE.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 21 of 28 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 6 | $570,410 | $58,395 |
| 2022 | 14 | $1,309,301 | $50,000 |
| 2023 | 11 | $754,462 | $49,868 |
| 2024 | 21 | $1,279,772 | $20,817 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
67% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $50,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Florida.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Suncoast Credit Union's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 15 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 6 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 11904, Tampa, FL, 33680.
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