· Private foundation
Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $445k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $810k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF POLK COUNTY INC | $173,000 |
| RIDGE YOUTH AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION INC | $76,275 |
| LAKELAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC | $75,000 |
| FAITH XTREME INC | $75,000 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST USA INC | $70,000 |
| VICTORY RIDGE ACADEMY INC | $66,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA INC | $65,000 |
| WE CARE OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC | $60,000 |
| HALEY CENTER INC | $50,000 |
| WOMEN AND YOUTH CENTER INC | $50,000 |
| PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP OF WINTER HAVEN INC | $50,000 |
| HEART FOR WINTER HAVEN | $44,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $43,000 |
| GREEN HOUSE INITIATIVE | $40,000 |
| POLK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $40,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $725k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +82% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 14 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k 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 ON WHEELS OF POLK COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $960k · revenue +59%
- BFBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2024 · $700k · revenue +82%
- LCLAKELAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2025 · $650k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- TATHE AMERICAN RADIO RELAY LEAGUE INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -7%
- PTPOLK TRAINING CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $33k · revenue +48% · 51% of their budget
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2017 · $30k
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.
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…
The organization is a not-for-profit corporation organized for the purpose of providing housing, supervision, training and therapeutic, medical, educational and other related services to developmentally disabled individuals in the state of…
Polk vision actively facilitates a process through which polk county achieves its full potential by identifying and building awareness of community priorities impacting quality of life, education, infrastructure, economic development,…
Lvim provides high quality, compassionate, free primary medical, dental and mental healthcare to the working uninsured of polk county, florida. lvim is a primary and multi-specialty clinic providing doctor and nurse visits, lab tests,…
To associate its members and the public in efforts to advance the charitable and educational welfare of winter park and surrounding areas. also to preserve the history and the premises of the woman's club of winter park for future…
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…
We will lead community efforts in supporting the success of children.
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.
Our mission is to assist the public and private sector to grow a resilient, inclusive, and equitable economy in winter haven. the whedc occupies a unique position in winter haven, working for the benefit of community and economic growth.…
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.
Hope clubhouse's mission is to be a community of support for adults living with a mental illness which provides opportunities for paid employment and access to education, housing and wellness. the clubhouse philosophy believes in the…
Grow an economy based on high-skill, high-wage sustainable businesses. we focus on business recruitment and expansion, business advocacy, facilitating collaborative partnerships and advancing strategic initiatives in central florida's polk…
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 Apex Soccer Academy Inc. 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 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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 20% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 47 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 ON WHEELS OF POLK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKELAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE HALEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP OF WINTER HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AND YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR OUTDOORS INC ↗
- Who funds WE CARE OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds POLK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MISSION OF WINTER HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF POLK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Youth for Christ of Polk County Inc ↗
- Who funds FAITH XTREME INC ↗
- Who funds VICTORY RIDGE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds KID PACK INC ↗
- Who funds CITRUS CENTER BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE WINTER HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WINTER HAVEN PUBLIC ↗
- Who funds HEART FOR WINTER HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds CYPRESS JUNCTION MONTESSORI INC ↗
- Who funds TOP BUTTONS INC ↗
- Who funds POLK SENIOR GAMES INC ↗
- Who funds 1ST VETERANS KIDS CARE INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN RADIO RELAY LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREEN HOUSE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds POLK TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LOVE OF ELOISE 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: Givewell Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Florida Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Florida's Natural Growers Foundation Inc · The Jahna Foundation Inc · Epic Affect Inc · Lillian E Bunker Private Foundation · Mountain Lake Community Service Inc · Ruth a Wilson Private Foundation · Glenn W & Hazelle Paxson Morrison Foundation Inc · Harrell Family Charities Inc · George Jenkins Foundation 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 Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation 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.
- Wounded Warrior Outdoors Inc — 1% of income from government
- Women and Youth Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Theatre Winter 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.