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Lakeland Area Chamber Foundation Inc at a glance

· 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.

$30k
Granted FY2019
4
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2019 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$836k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $1k → 16%VOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE TO THE ELDERLY: $1k → 16%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$48k · 5 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
19

Total granted

$48k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+74%

Still filing today

60%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
EducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • PE
    POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $12k · revenue +584%
  • TH
    TALBOT HOUSE MINISTRIES OF LAKELAND INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $11k
  • PC
    PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • PS
    POLK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue +36%
  • CC
    CHILDREN'S CLOTHES CLOSET AT FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • PR
    PEACE RIVER CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
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
Connected Polk Inc

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…

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2
Polk County School Readiness Coalition Inc

We will lead community efforts in supporting the success of children.

Education
3
Central Florida Development Council Inc

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…

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4
The Early Learning Coalition of Flagler and Volusia Counties Inc

To create and cultivate learning opportunities that empower children and families to thrive.

Education
5
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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6
College for Kids Inc

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…

Education
7
Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children

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.

Crime & Legal
8
Lighthouse Central Florida Inc

Charting a course for living, learning, and earning with vision loss.

Human Services
9
Lakeshore Community Health Care Inc

Lakeshore community health care provides access to comprehensive, integrated health care, regardless of ability to pay, eliminating health disparities among the underserved.

Health
10
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
11
Early Learning Coalition of Lake County Inc

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

Education
12
Lakeland Regional Medical Center Inc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Polk Education Foundation and Business Partnership Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP INC: $12,144 · OtherPOLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP INCTALBOT HOUSE MINISTRIES OF LAKELAND INC: $11,050 · OtherTALBOT HOUSE MINISTRIES OF LAKELAND INCPOLK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $6,600 · OtherPOLK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATIONJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF POLK COUNTY: $6,500 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF POLK COUNTYCHILDREN'S CLOTHES CLOSET AT FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $2,000 · OtherPEACE RIVER CENTER: $2,000 · Other+6 more: $6,400 · Other+6 moreLEARNING RESOURCE CENTER OF POLK COUNTY INC: $8,500 · EducationLEARNING RESOUR…READ Lakeland Inc: $1,200 · EducationREAD Lakeland I…ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMY INC: $1,000 · EducationACHIEVEMENT ACA…PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentPACE CENTER FO…PARKER STREET MINISTRIES INC AND SUBSIDIARIES: $2,000 · Community ImprovementPOLK VISION INC: $1,500 · Community ImprovementLAKELAND COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureFLORIDA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $789 · Arts & CultureLAKELAND VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INC: $2,000 · HealthVOLUNTEERS IN SERVICE TO THE ELDERLY INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $1,000 · Human ServicesKID PACK INC: $1,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$46,694Education$10,700Youth Development$10,000Community Improvement$3,500Arts & Culture$2,289Health$2,000Human Services$2,000Food & Nutrition$1,500

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

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
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.

United Way of Central…Givewell Community Fo…Publix Super Markets …Glenn W & Hazelle Pax…George Jenkins Founda…Harrell Family Charit…Blanton Charitable Fo…The Campisi Family Fo…Iron Horse Family Fou…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Children's Home Society of Florida: 6% of income from government
  • Pace Center for Girlsinc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

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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