· Private foundation
Close Friend Foundation
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 $10k5 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,100 |
| THE DUBIN CENTER | $1,000 |
| APPALACHIAN HEALTHCARE FDN | $1,000 |
| THE BRIDGE FUND | $500 |
| HIGH COUNTRY BREAST CANCER FDN | $100 |
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 (FY19–25, $800) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GCGOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSP OF SW FL5× · 2017–2021 · $71k
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2017–2025 · $50k
- LMLEE MEM HEALTH SYSTEM FDN2× · 2022–2024 · $20k
Funded once
- AFAUDUBON FLORIDAone grant, 2024 · $40k
- PCPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +43%
- ASAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +122%
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 provide public education and assistance to those without necessary resources and whom have the need for diagnosis and treatment of breast disease.
To provide confidence, connection and support to seniors living in collier and southern lee counties.
To save the lives of those impacted by breast cancer by supporting sscientific research, community education, public policy through advocacy, and community-based organizations.
Vision: deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time. mission: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. values: we serve with compassion. we pursue excellence. we honor every voice. form 990, part iii,…
To foster and encourage to promote and improve the care given to patients
The mission of wakemed is to improve the health and well-being of our community with outstanding and compassionate care to all.
Vision: deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time. mission: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. values: we serve with compassion. we pursue excellence. we honor every voice.
Vision: deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time. mission: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. values: we serve with compassion. we pursue excellence. we honor every voice. form 990, part iii,…
Vision: deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time. mission: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. values: we serve with compassion. we pursue excellence. we honor every voice. form 990, part iii,…
The mission of the rose is saving lives through quality breast health services, advocacy and access to care for all.
Vision: deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time. mission: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. values: we serve with compassion. we pursue excellence. we honor every voice. form 990, part iii,…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 25 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.
- Who funds LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WATAUGA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALVIN A DUBIN ALZHEIMER'S RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds High Country Breast Cancer Found ↗
- Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FUND ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOSPICE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES 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.
Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Close Friend Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Close Friend Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Pace Center for Girlsinc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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