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HWO Inc

The mission of HWO Inc.

$590k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$251k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$1.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$350kFood & Nutrition$268kCommunity Improvement$23kEnvironment$18kEducation$7kYouth Development$7k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $430,281, the rows itemized in this filing. The $590,396 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $160,115 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $84k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $82k
  • $250k+1 grant · $251k
$22,751
Median grant
2
States reached
$112M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Heart Association$250,905
BikeWalk Central Florida$81,855
MobileMedix Plus$33,770
West Orange Chamber of Commerce$22,751
Get Cooking Incorporated$15,000
Bloom and Grow Garden Society$12,500
American Cancer Society$7,500
Shepherd's Hope Inc$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%American Heart Association: $251k → 14%GROW HEALTHY KIDS: $7k → 11%BIKEWALK CENTRAL FLORIDA: $158k → 13%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $227k → 14%US HUNGER FKA FEEDING CHILDREN EVERYWHERE INC: $225k → 11%BIKEWALK CENTRAL FLORIDA: $111k → 13%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $169k → 14%Local Health Council of East Central Florida: $88k → 11%BikeWalk Central Florida: $82k → 13%American Heart Association: $76k → 14%LOCAL HEALTH COUNCIL OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA: $81k → 11%MobileMedix Plus: $34k → 13%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $17k → 14%LOCAL HEALTH COUNCIL OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA: $46k → 11%BLOOM AND GROW GARDEN SOCIETY: $18k → 13%Bloom and Grow Garden Society: $13k → 13%GET COOKING INCORPORATED: $15k → 13%Get Cooking Incorporated: $15k → 13%UCF FOUNDATION: $7k → 13%Shepherd's Hope Inc: $6k → 13%SHEPHERD'S HOPE INC: $6k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 30% of HWO Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 56% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 27%.

HWO Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 7 repeat orgs$295k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$1.4M
$239k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+108%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationPublic Safety & DisasterYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $740k · revenue +33%
  • BW
    BIKE WALK CENTRAL FLORIDA INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $350k · revenue +45%
  • BA
    BLOOM AND GROW GARDEN SOCIETY INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • FC
    Feeding Children Everywhere Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $225k · revenue +108%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue -9%
  • GH
    GROW HEALTHY KIDS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +207%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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2
Florida Alliance of Children's Councils & Trusts Inc

To promote policies that build effective primary prevention and early intervention systems of support for florida's children and families by engaging and enhancing the collective strengths of the individual children's services councils of…

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3
North Central Florida Health Planning Co

Wellflorida's mission is to forge partnerships in planning, research and service that build healthier communities. partnerships have included the development of federally qualified health centers, chronic disease management programs and…

Health
4
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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5
American Institute for Cancer Research

Aicr champions the latest and most authoritative scientific research from around the world on cancer prevention and survival through diet, weight and physical activity, so that we can help people make informed lifestyle choices to reduce…

Health
6
Central Florida Kidney Centers Inc

Our mission is to provide exceptional dialysis care and services to individuals with end-stage kidney disease throughout central florida. we are dedicated to expanding access to treatment and ensuring all those in need receive quality…

Health
7
Florida Healthy Kids Corporation

To ensure the availability of child-centered health plans that provide comprehensive, quality healthcare services, healthy kids coverage include doctors visits, immunizations, dental care, emergency care, hospital stays and much more.

Health
8
Florida Association of Community Health Centers Inc

The mission of the florida association of community health centers, inc. is to advance florida's community health centers through resource development, partnerships, technical assistance, and increased community awareness.

Health
9
Florida Association of Free and Charitable Clinics Inc

To represent and support not-for-profit clinics and networks that provide quality, cost-effective healthcare services at little or no charges to low-income, uninsured and under-served floridians

Health
10
Central Florida Health Care Coalition Inc

The organization provides healthcare research and education to members and the public.

Health
11
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
12
Central Florida Family Health Center Inc

Provide primary medical and dental care to the low-income, underinsured, uninsured, medicaid and medicare populations of seminole and orange counties in florida.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grow Healthy Kids Inc; the most unlike its peers is Get Cooking Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

American Heart Association Inc: $739,537 · HealthAmerican Heart Association IncHEALTH COUNCIL OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA: $214,355 · HealthHEALTH COUNCIL OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA+2 more: $29,500 · HealthBIKE WALK CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $350,215 · Public Safety & DisasterBIKE WALK CENTRAL FLORI…Feeding Children Everywhere Inc: $225,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding Childre…MobileMedix Plus: $33,770 · OtherWEST ORANGE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $22,751 · OtherGET COOKING INCORPORATED: $30,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · EducationBLOOM AND GROW GARDEN SOCIETY INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentGROW HEALTHY KIDS INC: $6,512 · Youth Development
Health$983,392Public Safety & Disaster$350,215Food & Nutrition$225,000Other$56,521Education$37,000Environment$30,000Youth Development$6,512

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $739,537 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBIKE WALK CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $350,215 over 3y, 17% of budgetFeeding Children Everywhere Inc: $225,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetHEALTH COUNCIL OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA: $214,355 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetBLOOM AND GROW GARDEN SOCIETY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetGET COOKING INCORPORATED: $30,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetWEST ORANGE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $22,751 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERD'S HOPE INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROW HEALTHY KIDS INC: $6,512 over 1y, 2.7% of budget
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.

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.

Orlando Health IncFL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization HWO Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from HWO Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Bike Walk Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to HWO Inc?

Find your warmest path to HWO Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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