· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $11,144 |
| PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS | $7,500 |
| LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER OF POLK CO | $5,900 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF POLK COUNTY | $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 (FY17–17, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% 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.
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.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down.
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 FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- PEPOLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP INC2× · 2017–2019 · $12k · revenue +584%
- THTALBOT HOUSE MINISTRIES OF LAKELAND INC2× · 2017–2018 · $11k
- PCPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC2× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- PSPOLK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue +36%
- CCCHILDREN'S CLOTHES CLOSET AT FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $2k
- PRPEACE RIVER CENTERone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
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…
We will lead community efforts in supporting the success of children.
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…
To create and cultivate learning opportunities that empower children and families to thrive.
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.
The organization's mission is to passionately promote self-worth, personal responsibility, and academic success for qualified, financially at-risk students throughout palm beach county by providing a unique set of resources which includes…
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.
Charting a course for living, learning, and earning with vision loss.
Lakeshore community health care provides access to comprehensive, integrated health care, regardless of ability to pay, eliminating health disparities among the underserved.
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…
To educate and support parents, early childhood professionals and the community as we collaborate to continue to provide the highest quality early learning programs for our children
See Schedule OLakeland Regional Health's strategic imperative is to develop as a nationally recognized, fiscally strong and growing collaborative regional health system that improves lives by offering safe, high quality, equitable and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Polk Education Foundation and Business Partnership Inc and the most unlike its peers is Read Lakeland Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 24 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 POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC ↗
- Who funds LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER OF POLK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds POLK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARKER STREET MINISTRIES INC AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds LAKELAND VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INC ↗
- Who funds KID PACK INC ↗
- Who funds POLK VISION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKELAND COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds READ Lakeland Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL FLORIDA SPEECH & HEARING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE TO THE ELDERLY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds PAINT YOUR HEART OUT LAKELAND INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
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: 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
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 Lakeland Area Chamber Foundation Inc 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.
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% 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.