· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| The Shelter for Abused Women | $8,000 |
| Feed Thy Neighbor Inc | $8,000 |
| Grace Place | $8,000 |
| Feeding Dreams Inc | $6,000 |
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 (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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MOMEALS OF HOPE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $95k · revenue +52%
- MFMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP3× · 2023–2025 · $55k · revenue +14%
- YHYOUTH HAVEN INC3× · 2023–2025 · $50k · revenue +222%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +8%
- YHYOUTH HAVENone grant, 2022 · $10k
- FTFEED THY NEIGHBORone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 28 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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Empty Bowls of Naples Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Empty Bowls of Naples Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Youth Haven Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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