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Wavering Family Charitable Foundation

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.

$760k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$401,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 13
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$10M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Wavering Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving12$760k42%
FY20239$477k0%
FY20229$787k22%
FY202113$711k38%
FY202010$742k0%
FY201912$716kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Environment$1.7MHuman Services$1.2MHousing & Shelter$500kArts & Culture$414kPhilanthropy$408kHealth$124kEducation$105kPublic Safety & Disaster$103kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Conservancy of Southwest Florida$732,74743%
The Everglades Foundation Inc$545,15062%
St Matthews House Inc$500,00022%
Naples Historical Society Inc$293,90069%
Captains for Clean Water Inc$260,00065%
Naples Botanical Garden Inc$166,20060%
Southwest Florida Music Education Center Inc$100,00029%
Neighborhood Health Clinic Inc$99,00061%
Community School of Naples Inc$95,00020%
Naples United Church of Christ$50,0001n/a
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All grantees of Wavering Family Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Conservancy of Southwest Florida$732,74743%
The Everglades Foundation Inc$545,15062%
St Matthews House Inc$500,00022%
Naples Historical Society Inc$293,90069%
Captains for Clean Water Inc$260,00065%
Naples Botanical Garden Inc$166,20060%
Southwest Florida Music Education Center Inc$100,00029%
Neighborhood Health Clinic Inc$99,00061%
Community School of Naples Inc$95,00020%
Naples United Church of Christ$50,0001n/a
The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc$25,00020%
NAMI Collier County Inc$9,2501n/a
North Shore Country Club Foundation Inc$5,10011%
Smoky Lake Preservation Association$5,0001n/a
Youth Haven Inc$5,00010%
Naples Yacht Club Blue Gavel Scholarship Scholarship Fund$5,00013%
Northwoods Living Care Foundation Inc$5,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wavering Family Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Conservancy of Southwest Florida: $732,747 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetThe Everglades Foundation Inc: $545,150 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetSt Matthews House Inc: $500,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetNaples Historical Society Inc: $293,900 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetCaptains for Clean Water Inc: $260,000 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetNaples Botanical Garden Inc: $166,200 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSouthwest Florida Music Education Center Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetNeighborhood Health Clinic Inc: $99,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCommunity School of Naples Inc: $95,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Shore Country Club Foundation Inc: $5,100 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetYouth Haven Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNaples Yacht Club Blue Gavel Scholarship Scholarship Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Collier Community Foundation IncFL17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Collier Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About Wavering Family Charitable Foundation

How much does Wavering Family Charitable Foundation give?
Wavering Family Charitable Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $759,900 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 13 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Wavering Family Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (37%), Human Services (25%), Housing & Shelter (11%).
Who are Wavering Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Conservancy of Southwest Florida ($733k), The Everglades Foundation Inc ($545k), St Matthews House Inc ($500k).
Does Wavering Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wavering Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wavering Family Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Collier Community Foundation Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Wavering Family Charitable Foundation based?
Wavering Family Charitable Foundation is based in IL.

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 25 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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