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Ruth a Wilson Private Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRACE CITY CHURCH OF FLORIDA INC | $6,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $6,000 |
| ALICE DRIVE BAPTIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF POLK COUNTY | $2,200 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $1,864 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 80% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +120% since the first grant, against +59% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH9× · 2017–2025 · $88k
- ADALICE DRIVE BAPTIST CHURCH4× · 2022–2025 · $17k
- THTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF POLK COUNTY INC5× · 2018–2025 · $11k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- FMFIRST MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $6k
- GSGood Shepherd Hospice Incone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +2%
- LCLAKES CHURCH1ST BAPTIST CH OF LKLDone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
Polk county health services inc improves the wellbeing and quality of life for iowans, primarily focused on individuals with brain health concerns and / or disabilities such as intellectual disability, developmental disability, substance…
Polk vision actively facilitates a process through which polk county achieves its full potential by identifying and building awareness of community priorities impacting quality of life, education, infrastructure, economic development,…
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…
Atrium health floyd polk medical center is a 25-bed critical access hospital whose mission is to improve health, elevate hope, and advance healing to the community it serves.
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…
To serve at any time upon proper request, any mission of mercy, to aid and assist in case of disaster or accident where human life is, has been, or is likely to be endangered, where such is within the ca
The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.
The floyd-polk healthcare foundation, inc. (the "foundation"), is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of and to carry out the purposes of floyd healthcare management, inc., polk medical center,…
Safety of victims of domestic violence
Bay park community hospital is dedicated to premier service, committed to superior quality, and devoted to our patients and families. our values include: collaboration - working together as a team, internally with employees, physicians,…
The mission is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and scout law.
Hospice of Okeechobee, Inc. provides hospice services that relieve the suffering of persons residing in its communities affected by life-limiting illnesses and end-of-life issues so all may live as fully and comfortably as possible.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Polk State College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Bartow Rotary Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 17 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 THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF POLK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WINTER HAVEN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds POLK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITRUS CENTER BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF POLK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds POLK SHERIFF'S CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds LAKELAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARTOW ROTARY FOUNDATION 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: Lillian E Bunker Private Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation · Givewell Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Ruth a Wilson Private 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.
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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