· Private foundation
The Von Arx Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $133k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HELP A DIABETIC CHILD | $25,000 |
| CENTENNIAL HIGH BOOSTER CLUB | $17,500 |
| STAND UP FOR ANIMALS | $10,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLNIC | $10,000 |
| HARRY CHAPLIN FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN | $10,000 |
| CROSSNORE SCHOOL & CHILDREN'S HOME | $10,000 |
| PAWCATUCK NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER | $10,000 |
| NAPLES THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $10,000 |
| ST MATTHEWS HOUSE | $10,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| CAMP KESEM | $7,500 |
| DAVID LAWERNCE CENTERS FOR BEHAVIOR | $5,000 |
| GOLDEN PAWS ASSISTANCE DOGS | $5,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - SWFL COUNCI | $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 (FY21–24, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 31% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
24 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
PATTY BAKER HUMANE SOCIETY NAPLES INC4× · 2019–2022 · $80k · revenue +119%- SHSHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN6× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue +16% · 66% of their budget
- NHNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC6× · 2019–2024 · $55k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $6k
- FOFRIENDS OF GRANT FOOTBALLone grant, 2021 · $4k
- BFBOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +85%
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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…
Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.
Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.
We believe that children are our best hope to improve the world.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
We will lead community efforts in supporting the success of children.
To create lasting change by investing in proven programs that transform the lives of vulnerable children in collier county. through strong partnerships, we bridge gaps in education and healthcare delivering measurable results that empower…
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Patty Baker Humane Society Naples Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shriners Hospital for Children. 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 30 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 HELP A DIABETIC CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds PATTY BAKER HUMANE SOCIETY NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Naples Therapeutic Riding Center Inc ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds Golden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds Camp Kesem National ↗
- Who funds Homeless Prenatal Program Inc ↗
- Who funds STAND UP FOR ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PAWCATUCK NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GRANT FOOTBALL ↗
- Who funds KATHERINE DELMAR BURKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOOKS FOR COLLIER KIDS 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: Collier Community Foundation Inc · Carol B Phelon Foundation · The League Club Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 The Von Arx Family 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.
- Southwest Florida Council Inc — 6% of income from government
- Help a Diabetic Child 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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