· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FAITH XTREME INC | $75,000 |
| LAKELAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL 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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +82% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 47 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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