· Public charity
Hobe Sound Community Chest Inc
The mission of the hobe sound community chest, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 42 grants below total $2,572,914 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,699,003 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $126,089 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $640k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $817k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOBE SOUND EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $802,494 |
| BANNER LAKE CLUB | $300,000 |
| COUNCIL ON AGING OF MARTIN COUNTY | $140,238 |
| HOUSE OF HOPE INC | $132,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MARTIN COUNTY | $90,360 |
| TYKES & TEENS INC | $90,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MARTIN COUNTY | $87,500 |
| MARTIN COUNTY HEALTH START COALITION | $85,000 |
| PROJECT LIFT | $75,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $65,000 |
| LIGHT HOUSE ART CENTER | $51,200 |
| HOBE SOUND NATURE CENTER | $49,760 |
| LOVE AND HOPE IN ACTION INC | $45,000 |
| SAFESPACE INC | $40,000 |
| HPS HELPING PEOPLE SUCCEED INC | $38,400 |
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 (FY17–25, $6.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 1% 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.
51 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- HSHOBE SOUND CHILD CARE CENTER INC7× · 2017–2025 · $4.7M · revenue +186% · 37% of their budget
- TBTHE BANNER LAKE CLUB INC7× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +194%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY7× · 2017–2025 · $994k · revenue +511%
Funded once
- MCMARTIN COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERSone grant, 2024 · $50k
- TMTC MUSICone grant, 2021 · $42k
- WCWHOLE CHILD CONNECTIONone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
Hospice of martin & st. lucie, inc. exists to provide hospice, grief counseling, education and other services to patients and families, dealing with death and dying so that they might live as fully and comfortably as possible. hospice…
None
The organization's mission is to help families (full-time martin county working parent(s) and their children) experiencing or facing homelessness achieve sustainable independence through a community-based response.the organization does…
To inspire participation and passion for the arts of martin county, florida. key programs include the court house cultural center gallery and educational arts programs.
The mission of the samaritan health and wellness center, inc. is to reclaim the healing ministry of jesus christ by providing affordable, professional primary health care and counseling for the working uninsured and under insured in lee…
To provide temporary shelter for abused and neglected children and support families at risk of abuse.
To provide exceptional health care, hope and compassion to every person, every time.
The family healthcare foundation's mission is to be the trusted leader in our community, ensuring access to high-quality healthcare for all in the tampa bay area. see also schedule o.
The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…
Association was formed for the advancement of educational, scientific and literary purposes; including the acquisition, establishment, maintenance and promotion of the use of public libraries in martin county.
Early learning childcare
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Club of Martin County and the most unlike its peers is Hobe Sound Soccer Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 59 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 HOBE SOUND CHILD CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BANNER LAKE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JESUS HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COUNCIL ON AGING OF MARTIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE DUNBAR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LIFT INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds TYKES & TEENS INC ↗
- Who funds MARTIN COUNTY HEALTHY START COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE AND HOPE IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds HOBE SOUND NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Library Foundation of Martin County ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE ARTCENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HPS Helping People Succeed Inc ↗
- Who funds Hobe Sound Soccer Club ↗
- Who funds TREASURE COAST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SAFESPACE INC ↗
- Who funds CARING CHILDREN CLOTHING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds 211 Palm BeachTreasure Coast Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF MARTIN & ST LUCIE INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S COMMUNITY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds MARTIN COUNTY SOUTH YOUTH ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH & PALLIATIVE SERVICES OF THE TREASURE COAST INC ↗
- Who funds CAREBAG INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVES HELPING NATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF THE WORLD CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES OF HOBE SOUND INC ↗
- Who funds MARTIN COUNTY POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGU ↗
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: The Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · United Way of Martin County Inc · Loblolly Community Foundation Inc · W and H Thomas Charitable Trust · Gordana Uscumlic Foundation · United Way of Martin County Foundation Inc · Susan R and John W Sullivan Foundation · Mariner Sands Charity Week Inc · The Fine Foundation · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · Impact100 Martin 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 Hobe Sound Community Chest 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.
- Safespace Inc — 25% of income from government
- 211 Palm BeachTreasure Coast Inc — 17% of income from government
- Jesus House of Hope Inc — 3% of income from government
- Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% of income from government
- The Banner Lake Club Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lighthouse Artcenter Inc — 0% of income from government
- Christian Community Care Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Place of Hope 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.