· Private foundation
Innovating Worthy Projects Foundation
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $116k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UP ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| DANNY DID FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP | $10,000 |
| HOPE TO WALK | $10,000 |
| HEARTGIFT | $10,000 |
| CAMP RISE ABOVE | $10,000 |
| FOUDNATION FOR DREAMS | $9,800 |
| CAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS | $8,000 |
| CLINICS CAN HELP | $8,000 |
| FRESH START SURGICAL GIFTS | $7,500 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE FT LAUDERDALE | $7,000 |
| WHYARTS INC | $7,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE MIAMI | $6,600 |
| FAST FEET RUNNING AND ATHLETICS | $5,200 |
| HOPECAM INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 61% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 5% of Innovating Worthy Projects 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. Read by recipient address, 14% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 12% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 19 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, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k 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
- DDDANNY DID FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +142%
- HTHOPE TO WALK INC5× · 2020–2024 · $38k · revenue +12%
- CHCAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS4× · 2020–2024 · $34k · revenue +180%
Funded once
- STSAVE THE CHILDREN- UKRAINE CHILDREN'S FUNDone grant, 2022 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $13k
- FDFAMILIAL DYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
Medical facility providing physical, occupational and speech therapy for children with a wide range of special needs, including down syndrome, autism, cerebral palsy and many more. we see children from 18 months to 13 years old.
Provide therapeutic rehabilitation and professional nursing services to children with special needs.
To provide quality programs for young children with special needs.
To provide exceptional pediatric therapy services to enhance the lives of children with special needs.
Teamability strives to ensure that children with severe multiple disabilities have the opportunity to benefit from therapeautic educational intervention to participate actively in life.
Kids Mobility Network provides wheelchairs, adaptive bikes, and other medical equipment to children with disabilities. We serve the uninsured and under-insured families that cannot obtain this necessary and expensive medical equipment…
Based upon medical prescription, the organization provides speech therapy, physical therapy occupational therapy and feeding therapy. the organization provides therapy serices to children with developmental disabilities and developmental…
To provide each child with a unique and individualized educational, therapeutic experience which will lay the foundation for the future as a capable and productive member of their community
Childkind's mission is to empower families caring for children involved with the child welfare system, specializing in those with special health care and developmental needs. whether it be a child with a complex medical or developmental…
To actively seek employment for individuals with psychological or physical disabilities.
The mission of CCRI is to enhance and enrich the lives and learning of people with disabilities. We help people overcome obstacles by offering unique community opportunities to children, adults, and families affected by disability. Our…
Capability health and human services is dedicated to providing transformational and life enhancing services to children and adults with disabilities facing a physical, mental, or social limitation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Camp Inc and the most unlike its peers is Whyarts Inc. 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 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
83 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. 83 of the 112 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 DANNY DID FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE TO WALK INC ↗
- Who funds Reunion Sportive d'Haiti Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS ↗
- Who funds HOPECAM INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP RISE ABOVE INC ↗
- Who funds Wheelchairs 4 Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds THE KIDS EQUIPMENT NETWORK NFP ↗
- Who funds AARON'S ACRES ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME CONNECTION OF THE BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds CAN DO CANINES ↗
- Who funds SOUNDS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE CARE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH THOMAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE II SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY EMPOWHER NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds UP Academy Inc DBA UP Academy Rebel Educator ↗
- Who funds HEARTGIFT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION THINKAGAIN ↗
- Who funds HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Dreams Inc ↗
- Who funds Special Kids-Special Families Inc ↗
- Who funds Grandmas Place Inc ↗
- Who funds CAVETT KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDSPRING INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPS OF LOVE ↗
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: Christopher Reeve Foundation · The Jordan Fund · Florida Panthers Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · First Nonprofit Foundation · Creag Foundation · Robert & Joan Dircks Foundation Inc · Burton Family Foundation · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Rite Aid Healthy Futures · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation
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 Innovating Worthy Projects 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.
- Grandmas Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Shadow Project — 8% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% 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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