· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $195k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Meals of Hope | $36,000 |
| Our Daily Bread Food Pantry | $25,000 |
| St Vincent de Paul Society | $22,000 |
| Midwest Food Bank of Florida | $20,000 |
| Youth Haven | $20,000 |
| Community Cooperative | $20,000 |
| New Hope Ministries | $15,000 |
| NAMI Collier County Inc | $13,000 |
| St Matthews House | $12,000 |
| Baker Senior Center Naples | $12,000 |
| Feed Thy Neighbor Inc | $8,000 |
| The Shelter for Abused Women | $8,000 |
| Grace Place | $8,000 |
| Feeding Dreams Inc | $6,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $227k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- MOMEALS OF HOPE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $95k · revenue +14%
- MFMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP3× · 2023–2025 · $55k · revenue +14%
- YHYOUTH HAVEN INC3× · 2023–2025 · $50k · revenue +222%
Funded once
- YHYOUTH HAVENone grant, 2022 · $10k
- CCCOLLIER COUNTY CHILD CAREone grant, 2019 · $10k
- FTFEED THY NEIGHBORone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
To prevent and reduce hunger and homelessness in central florida by equipping individuals and families to become self-sufficient through housing, outreach, prevention, and education.
Feeding south florida's mission is to end hunger in south florida by providing immediate access to nutritious food, leading hunger and poverty advocacy efforts, and transforming lives through innovative programming and education.
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
Daily bread's mission is to ensure no one faces hunger or homelessness alone; to have a community that comes together to share a meal and other resources with our neighbors in need, helping each person move forward and find a home.
Meals on wheels of the palm beaches mission is to nourish and enrich the lives of homebound seniors by delivering fresh food daily with compassion and love.
The mission of meals on wheels plus of manatee, inc. is to assist individuals to live independently by providing nutrition and caring supportive services.
We believe that food is a human right and that food has the power to bring people together. Our vision is to build a stronger, healthier, and hunger-free Coralville community. Powered by community support, the Coralville Community Food…
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
Together with our partners, we provide healthy solutions to end hunger in our community.
Beach food pantry distributes food and personal hygiene supplies to those in need in dare county, north carolina.
To provide comprehensive support services for individuals and families that are in need of everyday necessities due to insufficient financial resources or family instabilty. c.a.r.e.s. will offer food, clothing, job education and training…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Cooperative Inc and the most unlike its peers is Child's Path Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 28 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 MEALS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD FOOD PANTRY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI Collier County Inc ↗
- Who funds BAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds FEED THY NEIGHBOR ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY NAPLES ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD'S PATH INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding Dreams 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: 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
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 Empty Bowls of Naples Inc 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.
- Youth Haven 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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