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Lakeland Area Chamber Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$30k
Granted FY2019
4
Grants FY2019
4
Organizations funded FY2019
0%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2019
$11,144
Organizations funded a year
2 to 23
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
1
Total assets, FY2019
$836k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 0% of the organizations Lakeland Area Chamber Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20194$30k0%
FY20182$17k50%
FY201723$32kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Education$37kReligion$14kYouth Development$10kHuman Services$8kHealth$3kArts & Culture$2kFood & Nutrition$2kCommunity Improvement$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lakeland Area Chamber Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPolk Education Foundation and Business Partnership Inc: $12,144 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPace Center for Girlsinc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLearning Resource Center of Polk County Inc: $8,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPolk State College Foundation: $6,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetParker Street Ministries Inc and Subsidiaries: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLakeland Volunteers in Medicine Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKid Pack Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPolk Vision Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLakeland Community Theatre Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREAD Lakeland Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCentral Florida Speech & Hearing Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAchievement Academy Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVolunteers in Service to the Elderly Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Home Society of Florida: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPaint Your Heart Out Lakeland Inc: $900 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetFlorida Children's Museum Inc: $789 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

United Way of Central Florida IncFL26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Central Florida Inc · Givewell Community Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Glenn W & Hazelle Paxson Morrison Foundation Inc · George Jenkins Foundation Inc · Harrell Family Charities Inc · Blanton Charitable Foundation Inc · The Campisi Family Foundation Inc · Iron Horse Family Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Lakeland Area Chamber Foundation Inc

How much does Lakeland Area Chamber Foundation Inc give?
Lakeland Area Chamber Foundation Inc reported 4 grants totaling $29,544 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Lakeland Area Chamber Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Education (47%), Religion (18%), Youth Development (13%).
Who are Lakeland Area Chamber Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Polk Education Foundation and Business Partnership Inc ($12k), Talbot House Ministries of Lakeland Inc ($11k), Pace Center for Girlsinc ($10k).
Does Lakeland Area Chamber Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lakeland Area Chamber Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lakeland Area Chamber Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Central Florida Inc, Givewell Community Foundation Inc, Publix Super Markets Charities Inc.
Where is Lakeland Area Chamber Foundation Inc based?
Lakeland Area Chamber Foundation Inc is based in FL.

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 24 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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