· Private foundation
Doris K Hobson Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN | $40,000 |
| LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN IOWA | $20,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT | $20,000 |
| YOUTH HAVEN | $5,000 |
| CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA | $5,000 |
| NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN | $5,000 |
| ARTIS-NAPLES (NAPLES PHILHARMONIC CENTER FOR THE ARTS) | $5,000 |
| HERBERT HOOVER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AVOW FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NAPLES THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $5,000 |
| COLLIER COUNTY SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| UNITED STATES POWER SQUADRON | $3,000 |
| THE GUADALUPE CENTER | $1,000 |
| STEPHENS COLLEGE | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $377k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
24 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 8 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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $291k · revenue +43%- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +33%
- SUSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOLDEN COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTERone grant, 2022 · $20k
- BFBARBARA'S FRIENDS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM)one grant, 2017 · $20k
- BFBARBARA'S FRIENDS-GOLISANA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL'S CANCER FD (LEE HEALTH FND)one grant, 2018 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
Established to help sustain the mission of florida polytechnic university to educate students emphasizing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (stem) in an innovative, technology-rich, and interdisciplinary learning environment.
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…
To provide financial and other essential support to further the mission and goals of the college of the florida keys (cfk).
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To strengthen the larger community by developing and implementing programs and services that lead to institutional enhancement and greater educational advancement.
Fiu health care network's mission is to improve and support medical education at the fiu herbert wertheim college of medicine and provide clinical support services to the larger fiu community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Herbert Hoover Foundation Inc % Paul Morf Simmons Perrine. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds AVOW Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds Naples Therapeutic Riding Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COUNTY SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERBERT HOOVER FOUNDATION INC % PAUL MORF SIMMONS PERRINE ↗
- Who funds Avow Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPHENS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Center Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES POWER SQUADRONS ENDOWMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC ↗
- Who funds HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BABY BASICS OF COLLIER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The League Club Inc · Collier Community Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Doris K Hobson Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- Youth Haven Inc — 0% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Avow Hospice Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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