· Private foundation
The Charles and Elsie Gols 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $92k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLACE OF HOPE AT THE RINKER CAMPUS | $64,500 |
| THE IDDEAL PLACE COMM FNDN | $50,000 |
| THE LEARNING ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| THE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| GEORGE SNOW SCHLRSHP FUND | $20,000 |
| IMPACT 100 PALM BEACH COUNTY INC | $17,200 |
| COMM FDN FOR PALM BCH & M | $10,113 |
| THE CHILDRENS PLACE AT HOME SAFE | $10,000 |
| JERUSALEM KNIGHTS HOSPITALLER OF FL | $10,000 |
| SECOND CHANCE INITIATIVE | $8,000 |
| HELP OUR WOUNDED FOUNDATI | $8,000 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO | $8,000 |
| RATON END FND INC OF BOCA | $6,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA | $5,000 |
| BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPI | $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 (FY20–25, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
20 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- CACOVA AGUA4× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +132%
- I1IMPACT 100 PALM BEACH COUNTY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $87k · revenue +95%
- TJTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHILDREN S PLACE ATone grant, 2021 · $25k
- UWUnited Way of Palm Beach County Incone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -53%
- P4PAWS 4 LIBERTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +67%
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.
The mission of health foundation of south florida is to invest in and be a catalyst for collaborations, policy and systems change that improves the health of south florida communities, with a focus on vulnerable, low to moderate-income…
Spca florida exists to eliminate animal suffering and to engage the entire community in the welfare and well-being of animals.we accomplish this by advancing model programs to promote the adoption of healthy animals, prevent dog and cat…
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The mission of health foundation of south florida is to invest in and be a catalyst for collaborations, policy and systems change that improves the health of south florida communities, with a focus on vulnerable, low to moderate-income…
Continuing to build a sustainable organization to provide financial assistance and services by planning, organizing,developing, and operating an organization which raises funds to support the efforts of community health of south florida,…
As a statewide association of grantmakers, fpn builds philanthropy for a better florida. we do this through research and education, collaboration, and advancing public policy for the common good of all floridians.
To enhance the local florida united ways' efforts to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
To mitigate the trauma and cultivate the self-worth of kids living in foster care in palm beach county.
To raise the standards, public awareness, and encourage research and publications in anesthesiology
United Way envisions a community of opportunity where everyone has hope and can reach their full potential. United Way's mission is to solve Northeast Florida's toughest challenges by connecting people, resources and ideas.
To establish a system of care guaranteeing that all women have access to prenatal care and that all infants have access to services that promote optimal growth and development.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Her 2ND Chance Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Humane Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 35 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 COVA AGUA ↗
- Who funds IMPACT 100 PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds Help Our Wounded Foundation ↗
- Who funds GEORGE SNOW SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Place at Home Safe Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds United Way of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds HER 2ND CHANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS 4 LIBERTY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Boca Raton Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds REUNITE THE FIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds PLACE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT OF GIVING NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT AUSTIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLORIA M SILVERIO FOUNDATION ↗
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: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Reiling Family Foundation Inc · Pulte Family Charitable Foundation · Quantum Foundation Inc · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 The Charles and Elsie Gols 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.
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- United Way of Palm Beach County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Learning Alliance Inc — 0% of income from government
- Place of Hope Inc — 0% 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.
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