· Private foundation
The Jahna 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $144k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VICTORY RIDGE ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $24,900 |
| Individual grant recipient | $24,900 |
| WARNER UNIVERSITY | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,250 |
| LAKE WALES HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ADVENT HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ROOSEVELT ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| LAKE WALES CARE CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| LW ARTS COUNCIL SANDY'S MUSIC GIRLS | $6,000 |
| FAMILY LITERACY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BLOSSOM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| LAKE WALES POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE | $4,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k 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
- VRVICTORY RIDGE CHARITABLE FUNDINC4× · 2018–2021 · $203k · revenue +222% · 81% of their budget
- LWLAKE WALES CARE CENTER INC7× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +85%
- WIWEBBER INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2023 · $68k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
- VSVANGUARD SCHOOL OF LAKE WALES FLORIDA INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +10%
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.
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
Financial support - sports teams
Support of various charities and granting of scholarships to needy students
Providing young people in the greater lakeland areawith the opportunity to learn and participate in the sport of baseball in an organized, fun and safe environment adminiatered by trained volunteers.
Operation, promotion, direction, supervision, and regulation of interscholastic athletics of member high schools in florida.
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…
The learning resource center of polk county, inc. (lrc) is passionately devoted to pursuing its mission to help students maximize their learning potential by providing personalized supplemental education programs for students, consultative…
To sponsor camps for underprivileged children in the lake wales, florida area and to support community and international charitable activities.
To provide high school students with an environment to participate in ice hockey as a high school sport.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blossom Charitable Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lake Wales Police Athletic League Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 20% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 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. 26 of the 83 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 VICTORY RIDGE CHARITABLE FUNDINC ↗
- Who funds VICTORY RIDGE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE WALES CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGE ON THE RIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds WEBBER INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AdventHealth Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Idols Aside Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF FRIENDS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CITRUS CENTER BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE WALES ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE WALES LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE WALES LITTLE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds BLOSSOM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE WALES SOCCER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE WALES POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds WINTER HAVEN HOSPITAL 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: Givewell Community Foundation Inc · Mountain Lake Community Service Inc · Epic Affect Inc · Florida's Natural Growers Foundation Inc · Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation · United Way of Central Florida Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · John & Martha Carter Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Jahna 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.
- Polk County Youth Fair Inc — 0% of income from government
- Lake Wales Care Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Winter Haven Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- Webber International University — 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.