· Private foundation
Harper Family Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $739k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $135k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lake Cares Food Pantry | $300,000 |
| Hand in Hand | $135,000 |
| Meaningful Milestone Academy Inc | $40,000 |
| Rollins College | $40,000 |
| Legacy Foundation Inc | $40,000 |
| Reed Chartible Foundation Inc | $35,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $30,000 |
| Shepard's Hope Inc | $30,000 |
| Paralyzed Veterans of America | $25,000 |
| Building Blocks Ministries Inc | $25,000 |
| OCA-Opportunity Community Ability | $25,000 |
| Russell Home for Atypical Children | $25,000 |
| Calvary Chapel if the Lakes Inc | $25,000 |
| Shriners Hospital for Children | $25,000 |
| Angel Flight | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 39% 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.
100 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 57 since wound down; 9 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; $115k 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
- LCLake Cares Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $478k · revenue +193%
- HIHand in Hand Lake County Inc5× · 2018–2024 · $170k · revenue +122%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER ORLANDO INC8× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- GSGirl Scouts of Citrus Council Incone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -2%
- HHoopsLife2× · 2018–2019 · $27k
- FCFIRST CHURCH OF GOD INCone grant, 2022 · $17k
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.
Ability 1st, the center for independent living of north florida, is a community-based, organization that provides services to persons with varying disabilities. our mission is to empower people with disabilities to live independently and…
Empowering individuals who have developmental disabilities by advocating on their behalf and by providing or facilitating meaningful employment, recreational, and social opportunities and affordable housing choices.
Hope Services, Incorporated is an organization established to assist in transitioning disabled individuals into employable individuals and helping place them into jobs.
To create lasting support and advocacy for people living with disabilities such that they are presented with opportunities to find dignified independence and gainful employment.
The mission of the florida center for the blind is to foster hope, confidence and independence in individuals with visual impairments; and to educate the community about preventing vision loss.
Provide guardian and guardianship services to indigent and developmentally disabled citizens with no family or friends to make medical or financial decisions for them in citrus, hernando, lake, sumter and marion counties.
To facilitate services, resources, and partnerships that support people with disabilities, along with their families, caregivers, and community members.
Part iii, line 1 to empower people with disabilities to attain equal opportunities in society by providing training, education, advocacy, and resources needed to live independently.
Disability rights florida advocates, educates, investigates, and litigates to protect and advance the rights, dignity, equal opportunities, self-determination and choices for all people with disabilities.
New horizons provides services to developmentally and physically challenged individuals in northwest florida. these services include habilitation training, medical monitoring, physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, and…
The scarc, inc. evaluation, training and emplyment center provides therapeutic work, supported independent living, adult basic education, socialization opportunities, and transportation to adults who are developmentally disabled and who…
The mission of the lighthouse is to educate, empower and employ residents of pasco, hernando and citrus, fl counties who are visually impaired and blind.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Care Center for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oviedo High School Njrotc Boosters. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
89 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. 89 of the 185 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 Lake Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Hand in Hand Lake County Inc ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER ORLANDO INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL FLORIDA CHAPTER PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Building Blocks Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Wheelchairs 4 Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds MEANINGFUL MILESTONES ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SEMINOLE CO BAR ASSOC LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NO LIMITS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds OCA OPPORTUNITY COMMUNITY ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds WINTER PARK DAY NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds The Russell Home For Atypical Children Inc ↗
- Who funds ROLLINS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY MATTERS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds CARDS2WARRIORS ORG INC ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Harbor House of Central Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HELP 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: Central Florida Foundation · Williams M M & R P Fdn Ta · Heart of Florida United Way Inc · The Dr P Phillips Foundation · Universal Orlando Foundation Inc · Mount Dora Community Trust · The Lee Foundation · The Chatlos Foundation Inc · Charles B & Mary M McLin Foundation · W T Bland Jr Charitable Tua · Orlando Health Inc · Publix Super Markets 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 Harper Family Charitable 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.
- Health Care Center for the Homeless Inc — 34% of income from government
- Harbor House of Central Florida Inc — 24% of income from government
- Brevard County Legal Aid Inc — 13% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Ways for Life Inc — 5% of income from government
- Impower Inc — 5% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Parc Inc — 2% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc — 0% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Promise Inc — 0% of income from government
- Building Blocks Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
- Primrose Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Arc Nature Coast 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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