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The Lester Napier 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.

$167k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$416kHuman Services$350kHousing & Shelter$237kHealth$171kArts & Culture$134kYouth Development$90kCommunity Improvement$87kPhilanthropy$68kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$24k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$25,000
PREBLE STREET$25,000
SECOND SERVINGS HOUSTON$15,000
TARGET HUNGER$15,000
MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION$15,000
BATH AREA FOOD BANK$10,000
BIG SUNDAY$10,000
UNDIES FOR EVERYONE$10,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY$7,000
LITERACY COALITION OF PALM BEACH$7,000
YWCA OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$7,000
CENTER FOR CHILD COUNSELING$7,000
VITA NOVA$7,000
HOME SAFE$7,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $522k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SUNFLOWER OF PEACE FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%INTERMOUNTAIN CHILDRENS SERVICES: $7k → 9%MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION: $40k → 9%MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION: $15k → 9%MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION: $15k → 9%PARA LOS NINOS: $30k → 14%MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION: $15k → 9%MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION: $15k → 9%MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION: $15k → 9%PREBLE STREET: $35k → 7%CARIDAD CENTER: $7k → 11%PREBLE STREET: $25k → 7%TARGET HUNGER: $10k → 16%CARIDAD CENTER: $7k → 11%PREBLE STREET: $25k → 7%TARGET HUNGER: $5k → 16%CARIDAD CENTER: $7k → 11%PREBLE STREET: $25k → 7%THE CHANGE REACTION: $15k → 14%TARGET HUNGER: $15k → 16%PREBLE STREET: $25k → 7%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $10k → 14%VITA NOVA: $7k → 11%PREBLE STREET: $25k → 7%TARGET HUNGER: $15k → 16%PREBLE STREET: $25k → 7%BATH AREA BACKPACK PROGRAM: $5k → 9%TARGET HUNGER: $15k → 16%BATH AREA BACKPACK PROGRAM: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $10k → 14%SEAGULL SERVICES: $7k → 11%THE ARC OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $7k → 11%THE ARC OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $7k → 11%THE ARC OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $7k → 11%THE GLADES INITIATIVE INC: $7k → 11%THE GLADES INITIATIVE INC: $7k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MT
MA
RI
CA
DC
TX
FL
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 37 repeat orgs$295k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
26

Total granted

$1.5M
$281k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+9%

Still filing today

86%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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

  • PS
    PREBLE STREET
    7× · 2017–2024 · $185k · revenue +182%
  • MM
    MIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $115k · revenue +58%
  • RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2017–2020 · $110k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • PL
    PARA LOS NINOSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +64%
  • AH
    ANNUNCIATION HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • OL
    OFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +45%
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
United Way of Palm Beach County Inc

To ensure that everyone in Palm Beach County has access to the basics: A quality education, a place to live, financial stability, good medical care, and enough to eat.

Philanthropy
2
Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc

The Palm Beach County Food Bank is dedicated to fighting hunger and improving food security in Palm Beach County by providing food, nutrition education and financial assistance services.

Food & Nutrition
3
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
4
Project Open Hand

Project Open Hand's mission is to improve health outcomes and quality of life by providing nutritious meals to the sick and vulnerable, caring for and educating our community.

Food & Nutrition
5
Brighter Bites Inc

To create communities of health through fresh food. Brighter Bites seeks to improve health outcomes among children and families in under-resourced communities by using data-driven, evidence-based strategies for providing fresh produce and…

Food & Nutrition
6
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
7
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
8
Feeding South Florida Inc

Feeding south florida's mission is to end hunger in south florida by providing immediate access to nutritious food, leading hunger and poverty advocacy efforts, and transforming lives through innovative programming and education.

Food & Nutrition
9
Port Angeles Food Bank

Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.

Food & Nutrition
10
Family Promise of NorthCentral Palm Beach County

Family Promise North Central Palm Beach County is responding to the ongoing crisis of family homelessness in Palm Beach County, Florida by uniting with our community partners to help local homeless children by empowering their families to…

Housing & Shelter
11
Meals On Wheels of the Palm Beaches Inc

Meals on wheels of the palm beaches mission is to nourish and enrich the lives of homebound seniors by delivering fresh food daily with compassion and love.

Food & Nutrition
12
Hunger Action Los Angeles Inc

Hunger action los angeles ends hunger and promotes healthy eating through advocacy, education, and appropriate direct service. the chief program area currently is the market match prgram operated by hala at 22 farmers markets in la county…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bath Area Back Pack Program. 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

53 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. 53 of the 65 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
37/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PREBLE STREET: $185,000 · Human ServicesPREBLE STREETMIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION: $115,000 · Human ServicesMIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTIONTarget Hunger Inc: $60,000 · Human ServicesTarget Hunger IncPARA LOS NINOS: $30,000 · Human ServicesPARA LOS NINOSTHE ARC OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $21,000 · Human ServicesCaridad Center Inc: $21,000 · Human Services+11 more: $107,000 · Human Services+11 moreNEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS: $59,888 · OtherNEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORSLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $45,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANKSECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON: $45,000 · OtherSECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTONMid Coast Hunger Prevention Program: $25,000 · OtherANNUNCIATION HOUSE INC: $25,000 · OtherOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC: $25,000 · OtherAdopt-A-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc: $21,000 · OtherGREATER W HOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION: $20,000 · OtherBig Sunday: $80,000 · OtherBig SundayUndies for Everyone: $52,500 · OtherUndies for EveryoneCANCER ALLIANCE OF HELP AND HOPE INC: $21,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $20,000 · Other+17 more: $150,250 · Other+17 moreRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $110,000 · Food & NutritionRHODE ISLAND…BATH AREA FOOD BANK: $61,500 · Food & NutritionBATH AREA FO…Lucilles 1913 Community Kitchen: $15,000 · Food & NutritionLucilles 191…Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $10,000 · Food & NutritionArt Division: $70,000 · Arts & CultureNew Urban Arts: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMILAGRO FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 · Arts & CultureOASIS HEALTH NETWORK INC: $45,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S COMMUNITY CARE INC: $21,000 · HealthFAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY: $21,000 · HealthCLINICS CAN HELP INC: $14,000 · HealthTHE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON: $10,000 · HealthTEXAS DIAPER BANK: $5,000 · HealthWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $65,000 · InternationalNOVA UKRAINE: $25,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · InternationalProvidence CityArts for Youth Inc: $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC: $21,000 · Youth DevelopmentWISE READERS TO LEADERS: $20,000 · Youth Development
Human Services$539,000Other$589,638Food & Nutrition$196,500Arts & Culture$134,000Health$116,000International$100,000Youth Development$96,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPREBLE STREET: $185,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMIDCOAST MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION: $115,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $110,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBig Sunday: $80,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetArt Division: $70,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBATH AREA FOOD BANK: $61,500 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetTarget Hunger Inc: $60,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetProvidence CityArts for Youth Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetUndies for Everyone: $52,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetNew Urban Arts: $50,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetOASIS HEALTH NETWORK INC: $45,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON: $45,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetPARA LOS NINOS: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMid Coast Hunger Prevention Program: $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNOVA UKRAINE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S COMMUNITY CARE INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAdopt-A-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc: $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER ALLIANCE OF HELP AND HOPE INC: $21,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF YELLOWSTONE VALLEY: $21,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCaridad Center Inc: $21,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWISE READERS TO LEADERS: $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLucilles 1913 Community Kitchen: $15,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetTHE CHANGE REACTION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChristians Reaching Out To Society Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUrban Youth Impact Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GLADES INITIATIVE INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCLINICS CAN HELP INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYWCA OF PALM BEACH COUNTY: $14,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMILAGRO FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILD COUNSELING INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHELP OF OJAI INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSUNFLOWER OF PEACE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LORD'S PLACE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVita Nova Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIntermountain Childrens Home: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPalm Beach County Literacy Coalition Inc: $7,000 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.

The Mary Alice Fortin…Lost Tree Village Cha…Community Foundation …Leslie L Alexander Fo…The Chamber of Nonpro…The Jim Moran Foundat…The Batchelor Foundat…Town of Palm Beach Un…Quantum Foundation IncUnited Way of Palm Be…The Palm Beach Post S…The Mirasol Foundatio…
The Mary Alice Fortin FoundationFL42.8× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · The Chamber of Nonprofit Health and Human Agencies in Palm Beach County Inc · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc · Quantum Foundation Inc · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · The Palm Beach Post Season to Share Inc · The Mirasol Foundation Inc

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 The Lester Napier Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lester Napier Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Ywca of Palm Beach County: 72% of income from government
  • Vita Nova Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Adopt-a-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc: 15% of income from government
  • The Lord's Place Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Center for Child Counseling Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Caridad Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to The Lester Napier Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Lester Napier Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 65 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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