· Public charity
Florida's Natural Growers Foundation Inc
Provide support for various local non-profit organizations whose focus is on health, education or youth.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $111,865 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $285,015 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $173,150 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $98k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $42,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF POLK COUNTY | $31,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL FL SUCCESS BY 6 POLK - IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| LAKE WALES CARE CENTER | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL FL FAMILY FUNDAMENTALS | $7,865 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL FL SUCCESS BY 6 HIGHLANDS - IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $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 (FY18–23, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
14 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- UWUnited Way of Central Florida Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $162k · revenue +24%
- PEPOLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP INC3× · 2022–2024 · $135k · revenue +396%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF POLK COUNTY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $97k · revenue +163%
Funded once
- COCIRCLE OF FRIENDS MINISTRY INCone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue -63%
- PCPOLK COUNTY SCHOOL BOARDone grant, 2017 · $10k
- LWLAKE WALES CHARTER SCHOOLS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +59%
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.
We will lead community efforts in supporting the success of children.
The learning resource center of polk county, inc. (lrc) is passionately devoted to pursuing its mission to help students maximize their learning potential by providing personalized supplemental education programs for students, consultative…
Provides college scholarships and mentoring programs for deserving low-income children whose household income falls below 185% of the federal poverty guidelines from middle school through college.
To strenghten and instill pride in family and community through the development of programs and institutions that cultivate self-development, teach self-disipline, build confidence and promote cutural awareness.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us the most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
The mission of the lake county ymca is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
Connected polk is committed to transforming polk county's educational landscape by engaging the business community. connected polk's mission is to enhance high school and post-secondary graduates' preparedness, making polk county a premier…
Youth for Christ reaches young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other like-minded partners to raise up life long followers of Jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to prayer and the Word of…
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.
The ymca of central florida improves lives of all in central florida by connecting individuals, families, and communities with opportunities based on christian values that strengthen spirit, mind, and body.
The cfef maximizes the impact of florida's local education foundations to facilitate their support of classroom innovation and student achievement, often serving as a conduit for public and private funders interest in impacting student…
To create and cultivate learning opportunities that empower children and families to thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Polk County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Healthy Start Coalition of Hardee Highlands and Polk Counties Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 20 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 United Way of Central Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF POLK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CITRUS CENTER BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY START COALITION OF HARDEE HIGHLANDS AND POLK COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF POLK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds REDLANDS CHRISTIAN MIGRANT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC ↗
- Who funds LAKE WALES SOCCER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds POLK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LAKE WALES INC C/O YMCA OF WEST CENTRAL FL ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF FRIENDS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE WALES CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE WALES CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds LINKS TO SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds KID PACK 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: United Way of Central Florida Inc · Givewell Community Foundation Inc · Mountain Lake Community Service Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation · George Jenkins Foundation Inc · The Jahna Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Epic Affect Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Detroit Tigers Foundation of Florida Inc · Polk Sheriff's Charities Inc
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 Florida's Natural Growers Foundation 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.
- Redlands Christian Migrant Association Inc — 51% of income from government
- Lake Wales Charter Schools Inc — 7% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- Lake Wales Care Center 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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