· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $112k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $217k
- $250k+1 grant · $401k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EVERGLADES FOUNDATION | $401,000 |
| CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER | $130,000 |
| NAPLES HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $86,500 |
| NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN | $47,300 |
| COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF NAPLES | $45,000 |
| HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| NORTH SHORE COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC | $5,100 |
| NAPLES YACHT CLUB BLUE GAVEL SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $5,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC | $5,000 |
| SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| NORTHWOODS LIVING CARE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| YOUTH HAVEN | $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 (FY21–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 17% of Wavering Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +101% since the first grant, against +73% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 8 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA4× · 2019–2023 · $733k · revenue +82%
THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $545k · revenue +226%- SMST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC2× · 2019–2020 · $500k · revenue +321%
Funded once
- NUNAPLES UNITED CHURCH OF CHRISTone grant, 2021 · $50k
- NCNAMI Collier County Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue +73%
- SLSMOKY LAKE PRESERVATION ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
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…
To enlighten, engage, educate, and enrich the community and to build on naples art's history and position of leadership as a hub of visual arts in southwest florida. we believe art can change lives and improve entire communities. continued…
To educate and inspire a network of service-minded leaders to impact positive change in our community.
To preserve america's everglades and florida bay as natural resources.
See schedule ocollaboratory is a community foundation with an evolved mission committed to coordinating the solving of southwest florida's major social problems by 2040. since our founding in 1976, we have been supporting local causes and…
Naples Pathways Coalition is a non-profit advocacy group working for a fully integrated transportation network of sidewalks, bike lanes, and multi-use pathways to be used by cyclists, pedestrians, and other non-motorized users throughout…
Helping everyone live a longer, happier, and healthier life.
"to help make naples the best place in america to work and live." the greater naples chamber of commerce (the chamber) is a non-profit organization providing services to our members and our community. we strive to fulill the needs of our…
To increase access to quality healthcare and improve the overall health of the community.
We unite the suncoast to protect and improve our waters through science-driven actions.
Naples area board of realtors and association of real estate professionals, inc. (nabor) provide education, ethics enforcement and arbitration services, contracts and forms, an intranet with real estate business content, social functions,…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 25 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 THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds Southwest Florida Music Education Center Inc ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI Collier County Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES YACHT CLUB BLUE GAVEL SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
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: Collier Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wavering Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wavering Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc: 3% of income from government
- The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc: 2% of income from government
- Youth Haven Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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