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Innovating Worthy Projects Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$176k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Health$445kRecreation & Sports$165kHuman Services$95kYouth Development$45kArts & Culture$44kEducation$44kInternational$24kAnimals$19kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $116k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
$5,200
Median grant
19
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPE TO WALK$10,000
UP ACADEMY$10,000
CAMP RISE ABOVE$10,000
DANNY DID FOUNDATION$10,000
HEARTGIFT$10,000
MARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP$10,000
FOUDNATION FOR DREAMS$9,800
CLINICS CAN HELP$8,000
CAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS$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
REUNION SPORTIVE D'HAITI INC$5,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SUPPORT MY CLUB: $5k → 11%AARON'S ACES: $9k → 9%VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT: $4k → 13%WHEELCHAIRS 4 KIDS: $10k → 12%HAND IN HAND: $1k → 12%CAMP HIGH HOPES: $2k → 13%ABILITY CENTER: $4k → 17%MOBILITY WORKS FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%KIDS EQUIPMENT NETWORK: $12k → 7%GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND: $9k → 14%ARTISTIC REALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES: $5k → 5%HOSPICE OF THE BLUEGRASS: $3k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $2k → 15%AARON'S ACRES: $8k → 9%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $1k → 14%WHEELCHAIRS 4 KIDS: $8k → 12%KIDS EQUIPMENT NETWORK: $10k → 7%THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE: $5k → 14%AARON'S ACES: $3k → 9%WHEELCHAIRS 4 KIDS: $5k → 12%GRANDMAS PLACE INC: $5k → 11%GRANDMA'S PLACE INC: $5k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 5% of Innovating Worthy Projects Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 14% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 12%.

Innovating Worthy Projects Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.0% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$391k · 19 repeat orgs$537k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
74

Total granted

$391k
$422k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+13%

Still filing today

89%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsEducationArts & CultureReligionOther
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

  • DD
    DANNY DID FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +142%
  • CH
    CAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS
    4× · 2020–2024 · $34k · revenue +180%
  • HI
    HOPECAM INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $31k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • ST
    SAVE THE CHILDREN- UKRAINE CHILDREN'S FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $13k
  • TC
    THE CARE GROUP INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +22%
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
The Children's Theraplay Foundation Inc

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.

Health
2
Special Kids Inc

Provide therapeutic rehabilitation and professional nursing services to children with special needs.

Health
3
Alternatives for Children

To provide quality programs for young children with special needs.

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4
Quest Therapeutic Services Inc

To provide exceptional pediatric therapy services to enhance the lives of children with special needs.

Human Services
5
Teamability Inc

Teamability strives to ensure that children with severe multiple disabilities have the opportunity to benefit from therapeautic educational intervention to participate actively in life.

Education
6
Kids Mobility Network Inc

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…

Human Services
7
Children's Therapy Center of the Quad Cities Nfp

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…

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8
Children At Play Early Intervention Center

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

Education
9
Childkind Inc

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…

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10
Job Options Inc

To actively seek employment for individuals with psychological or physical disabilities.

Employment
11
Ccri Inc

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…

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12
Capability Health & Human Services

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Camp Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

83 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. 83 of the 112 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/83
Grantees still filing
55/83
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Reunion Sportive d'Haiti Inc: $36,500 · OtherReunion Sportive d'Haiti IncHOPECAM INC: $31,000 · OtherHOPECAM INCCOURAGEOUS KIDS: $19,000 · OtherGIFT OF ADOPTION: $18,000 · OtherCAN DO CANINES: $15,000 · OtherSAVE THE CHILDREN- UKRAINE CHILDREN'S FUND: $15,000 · Other+45 more: $257,917 · Other+45 moreDANNY DID FOUNDATION: $39,740 · HealthDANNY DID FOUNDATIONHOPE TO WALK INC: $38,000 · HealthHOPE TO WALK INCDOWN SYNDROME CONNECTION OF THE BAY AREA: $18,648 · HealthDOWN SYNDROME CONNECTIO…FOUNDATION THINKAGAIN: $10,000 · HealthHEARTGIFT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE INC: $10,000 · HealthFoundation for Dreams Inc: $9,800 · HealthSpecial Kids-Special Families Inc: $9,500 · HealthCAPS OF LOVE: $8,200 · HealthCLINICS CAN HELP INC: $8,000 · HealthFAMILY HOUSE INC: $7,500 · Health+6 more: $25,000 · Health+6 moreWheelchairs 4 Kids Inc: $23,000 · Human ServicesWheelchairs 4 Kid…THE KIDS EQUIPMENT NETWORK NFP: $22,400 · Human ServicesTHE KIDS EQUIPMEN…AARON'S ACRES: $19,000 · Human ServicesAARON'S ACRESJOSEPH THOMAS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesJOSEPH THOMAS FOU…Grandmas Place Inc: $9,500 · Human ServicesGrandmas Place In…GIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesGIFT OF ADOPTION …Northwest Kidney Kids Inc: $7,500 · Human ServicesTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $5,420 · Human ServicesOperation Warm Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesARTISTIC REALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesSUPPORT MY CLUB: $5,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGE TO MOBILITY: $5,000 · Human Services+8 more: $19,678 · Human Services+8 moreCAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS: $34,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP HOLIDAY…CAMP RISE ABOVE INC: $29,700 · Recreation & SportsCAMP RISE AB…BRIDGE II SPORTS INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsBRIDGE II SP…ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM OF OHIO: $7,500 · Recreation & SportsADAPTIVE SPO…Jacobs Chance Inc: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsMAGICAL BRIDGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsPALMS TO PINES PARASPORTS: $4,400 · Recreation & SportsHarpers Playground: $4,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE CARE GROUP INC: $10,000 · EducationUP Academy Inc DBA UP Academy Rebel Educator: $10,000 · EducationREAD BETTER BE BETTER: $8,000 · EducationTINY TIM CENTER INC DBA TLC LEARNING CENTER: $8,000 · EducationSOUND START FOUNDATION: $5,530 · EducationTHE PATHFINDER SCHOOL INC: $3,053 · EducationVALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES: $2,500 · EducationTHE SHADOW PROJECT: $2,350 · EducationSOUNDS ACADEMY: $12,000 · Arts & CultureWHYARTS INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AT SARATOGA: $6,790 · Arts & CultureThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc: $3,750 · Arts & CultureAMAZEMENT SQUARE: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureCAVETT KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · Youth DevelopmentGAMERS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$392,417Health$194,388Human Services$145,498Recreation & Sports$99,600Education$49,433Arts & Culture$33,040Youth Development$14,000

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 budgetDANNY DID FOUNDATION: $39,740 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetHOPE TO WALK INC: $38,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetReunion Sportive d'Haiti Inc: $36,500 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetCAMP HOLIDAY TRAILS: $34,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetHOPECAM INC: $31,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCAMP RISE ABOVE INC: $29,700 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetWheelchairs 4 Kids Inc: $23,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE KIDS EQUIPMENT NETWORK NFP: $22,400 over 2y, 13% of budgetAARON'S ACRES: $19,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME CONNECTION OF THE BAY AREA: $18,648 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCAN DO CANINES: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOUNDS ACADEMY: $12,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CARE GROUP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUP Academy Inc DBA UP Academy Rebel Educator: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJOSEPH THOMAS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetBRIDGE II SPORTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDISABILITY EMPOWHER NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFOUNDATION THINKAGAIN: $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetHEARTGIFT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF DELAWARE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFoundation for Dreams Inc: $9,800 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGrandmas Place Inc: $9,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSpecial Kids-Special Families Inc: $9,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAVETT KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGIFT OF ADOPTION FUND INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDSPRING INTERNATIONAL INC: $8,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $8,248 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAPS OF LOVE: $8,200 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetREAD BETTER BE BETTER: $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTINY TIM CENTER INC DBA TLC LEARNING CENTER: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCLINICS CAN HELP INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LUCY PROJECT INC: $7,956 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFAMILY HOUSE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwest Kidney Kids Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFRESH START SURGICAL GIFTS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM OF OHIO: $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWHYARTS INC: $7,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON: $7,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AT SARATOGA: $6,790 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGREEN GUERILLAS INC: $6,100 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetProject Orphans Inc dba Tulsa Girls Home: $5,825 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOUND START FOUNDATION: $5,530 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $5,420 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAST FEET RUNNING AND ATHLETICS INC: $5,200 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGAMERS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Christopher Reeve Fou…The Jordan FundFlorida Panthers Foun…Nora Roberts Foundati…First Nonprofit Found…Creag FoundationRobert & Joan Dircks …Burton Family Foundat…The Jim Moran Foundat…The Batchelor Foundat…Rite Aid Healthy Futu…The Richard M Schulze…
Christopher Reeve FoundationNJ23× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Innovating Worthy Projects Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Innovating Worthy Projects Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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How do I get to Innovating Worthy Projects Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Innovating Worthy Projects Foundation 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 112 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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