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Charles Wackerle Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Religion$143kInternational$49kHuman Services$33kYouth Development$25kPhilanthropy$13kHealth$8kRecreation & Sports$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $29k
$3,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GLOBAL SERVE INTL$17,701
SUNCOAST COMMUNITY CHURCH$11,301
SARASOTA PRAYER BREAKFAST INC$5,000
CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER$4,301
FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD$3,500
SRQ FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETE$2,000
EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF SW FLORIDA$2,000
HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES$2,000
BSA SOUTHWESTFL COUNCIL$1,500
SARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER$901
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GATOR WILDERNESS CAMP SCHOOL: $7k → 9%GATOR WILDERNESS CAMP SCHOOL: $7k → 9%GATOR WILDERNESS CAMP SCHOOL: $5k → 9%GATOR WILDRENESS CAMP SCHOOL: $3k → 9%GATOR WILDRENESS CAMP SCHOOL: $2k → 9%HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES: $2k → 10%HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES: $2k → 10%FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD: $4k → 9%HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES: $2k → 10%FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD: $4k → 9%FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD: $3k → 9%FLORIDA CENTER EARLY CHILDHOOD: $3k → 9%THE FLORIDA CENTER: $1k → 9%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$256k · 12 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
7

Total granted

$256k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+114%

Still filing today

58%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthReligionInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • GS
    GLOBAL SERVE INTERNATIONAL INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $53k · revenue +125%
  • GW
    GATOR WILDERNESS CAMP SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $24k · revenue +56%
  • TF
    THE FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $14k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • SI
    SOLBON INTERNATIONAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $21k · revenue +114%
  • SAMARITAN COUNSELING SERVICES OF THE GULF COAST INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +60%
  • S
    SERGE
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
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
Samaritan Health & Wellness Center Inc

The mission of the samaritan health and wellness center, inc. is to reclaim the healing ministry of jesus christ by providing affordable, professional primary health care and counseling for the working uninsured and under insured in lee…

Health
2
Marriage Works Inc Power

Marriage works mission is to build strong families on florida's suncoast, one marriage at a time, through education and coaching that teach the skills needed for healthy, lifelong relationships.

Human Services
3
Suncoast Center Inc

For 80 years, suncoast center, inc. has held true to its mission of "strengthening, protecting, and restoring lives for a healthy community" by providing a comprehensive range of evidence-based services that address emotional wellness,…

Health
4
Seamark Ranch Inc

To provide residential care for children from families of crisis.

Human Services
5
Good Samaritan Health Centers Inc

To ensure free access to high-quality, compassionate healthcare that improves the lives of uninsured adult residents in St. Johns County, Florida.

Health
6
Child Protection Center Inc

The mission of the child protection center, inc. is the prevention, intervention and treatment of child abuse. we envision a community where children are safe from abuse and free to thrive. to successfully address the issue of child abuse,…

Crime & Legal
7
Centerstone of Florida Inc

Our mission is "delivering care that changes people's lives"

Health
8
Samaritan Counseling Center Hawaii

Professional and accessible behavioral health counseling sensitive to the spiritual traditions of individuals, families, and communities in Hawaii, regardless of their ability to pay.

Human Services
9
Sav-a-Life of Northwest Fla Inc

Safe Harbor Pregnancy Medical Center assists women and families making a pregnancy decision by providing free medical services including pregnancy tests and limited ultrasounds. Pre-natal and parenting education classes are provided along…

—
10
Grace Counseling Center of Florida Inc

Grace Counseling exists to make professional counseling affordable and accessible, removing barriers so individuals and families can find hope and healing. We provide individual, couples, family and group counseling to ages 4 and older.…

Health
11
Samaritan Center for Counseling and Pastoral Care Inc

We empower individuals, families, and communities and provide a safe space for growth and healing through holistic counseling, integrative medicine, peer support, and education.

—
12
Interhope Inc

To assist in the rescue and care of abandoned and orphaned children in the developing world and to advocate for them by creating awareness of their plight within Christian churches.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Samaritan Counseling Services of the Gulf Coast Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Florida Center for Early Childhood Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 22 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUNCOAST COMMUNITY CHURCH: $34,701 · OtherSUNCOAST COMMUNITY CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $31,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF SW FL: $18,306 · OtherEPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF SW FLSARASOTA PRAYER BREAKFAST INC: $15,000 · OtherSARASOTA PRAYER BREAKFAST INCCHURCH OF THE REDEEMER: $14,951 · OtherCHURCH OF THE REDEEMER+8 more: $16,750 · Other+8 moreGATOR WILDERNESS CAMP SCHOOL INC: $23,650 · Human ServicesGATOR WILDERNESS CAM…THE FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INC: $14,000 · Human ServicesTHE FLORIDA CENTER F…PINES OF SARASOTA INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesPINES OF SARASOTA IN…Hope for Communities Inc: $6,000 · Human ServicesHope for Communities…GLOBAL SERVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $53,101 · ReligionGLOBAL SERVE INTERN…SOLBON INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,612 · HealthSOLBON INT…SARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $6,901 · HealthSARASOTA M…Agape Flights Inc: $25,806 · InternationalAgape Fli…SAMARITAN COUNSELING SERVICES OF THE GULF COAST INC: $13,000 · Philanthropy
Other$131,208Human Services$56,150Religion$53,101Health$27,513International$25,806Philanthropy$13,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGLOBAL SERVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $53,101 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAgape Flights Inc: $25,806 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGATOR WILDERNESS CAMP SCHOOL INC: $23,650 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSOLBON INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,612 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INC: $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN COUNSELING SERVICES OF THE GULF COAST INC: $13,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPINES OF SARASOTA INC: $12,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $6,901 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHope for Communities Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 2.9% 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.

  • Who funds GLOBAL SERVE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Agape Flights Inc ↗
  • Who funds GATOR WILDERNESS CAMP SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds SOLBON INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN COUNSELING SERVICES OF THE GULF COAST INC ↗
  • Who funds PINES OF SARASOTA INC ↗
  • Who funds SARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Hope for Communities 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.

The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Annette J Hagens Memorial Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Charles Wackerle Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles Wackerle Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Pines of Sarasota Inc: 18% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get 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 · 0–20%
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 Charles Wackerle 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 22 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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