· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 LEARNING ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| THE IDDEAL PLACE COMM FNDN | $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 |
| JERUSALEM KNIGHTS HOSPITALLER OF FL | $10,000 |
| THE CHILDRENS PLACE AT HOME SAFE | $10,000 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO | $8,000 |
| SECOND CHANCE INITIATIVE | $8,000 |
| HELP OUR WOUNDED FOUNDATI | $8,000 |
| RATON END FND INC OF BOCA | $6,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA | $5,000 |
| BOCA RATON HISTORICAL SOCIETYMUSEUM | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- UWUnited Way of Palm Beach County Incone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -53%
- TCTHE CHILDREN S PLACE ATone grant, 2021 · $25k
- BDBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +153%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS 4 LIBERTY INC ↗
- Who funds Boca Raton Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds REUNITE THE FIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT OF GIVING NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PLACE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT AUSTIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLORIA M SILVERIO FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Charles and Elsie Gols Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charles and Elsie Gols Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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