Florida · Public charity
Empty Bowls of Naples Inc
The "Empty Bowls Project" is an international grassroots effort to raise both money and awareness in the fight to end hunger. The mission is to creat positive and lasting change through the arts, education and projects that build the community.
- $225k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $36,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 12
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $233k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Empty Bowls of Naples Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $225k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $146k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $185k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $180k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $116k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $153k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $115k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meals of Hope Inc | $95,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Our Daily Bread Food Pantry Incorporated | $70,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Midwest Food Bank Nfp | $55,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Youth Haven Inc | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Community Cooperative Inc | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| St Matthews House Inc | $42,000 | 3 | 0% |
| NAMI Collier County Inc | $35,500 | 3 | 1% |
| New Hope Ministries | $35,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Baker Senior Center Naples Inc | $32,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Feed Thy Neighbor | $22,000 | 3 | 2% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meals of Hope Inc | $95,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Our Daily Bread Food Pantry Incorporated | $70,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Midwest Food Bank Nfp | $55,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Youth Haven Inc | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Community Cooperative Inc | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| St Matthews House Inc | $42,000 | 3 | 0% |
| NAMI Collier County Inc | $35,500 | 3 | 1% |
| New Hope Ministries | $35,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Baker Senior Center Naples Inc | $32,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Feed Thy Neighbor | $22,000 | 3 | 2% |
| St Vincent Depaul Society Naples | $22,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Shelter for Abused Women | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Catholic Charities Diocese of Venice Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Grace Place for Children and Families Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Child's Path Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Feeding Dreams Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($564k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Empty Bowls of Naples Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Collier Community Foundation Inc · The League Club Inc · Naples Children Foundation Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Sutton Family Foundation · Carol B Phelon Foundation · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
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About Empty Bowls of Naples Inc
- How much does Empty Bowls of Naples Inc give?
- Empty Bowls of Naples Inc reported 14 grants totaling $225,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Empty Bowls of Naples Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (57%), Human Services (25%), Community Improvement (4%).
- Who are Empty Bowls of Naples Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Meals of Hope Inc ($95k), Our Daily Bread Food Pantry Incorporated ($70k), Midwest Food Bank Nfp ($55k).
- Does Empty Bowls of Naples Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Empty Bowls of Naples Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Collier Community Foundation Inc, The League Club Inc, Naples Children Foundation Inc.
- Where is Empty Bowls of Naples Inc based?
- Empty Bowls of Naples Inc is based in FL.
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