You may want to check over all those letters, bills and solicitations you receive in the mail a little more closely.

That's the message a group in Manatee County is giving after they nearly lost a big donation.

Jane Evers, the founder of Feeding Empty Little Tummies, said she's used to getting a lot of unwanted mail delivered to the mailbox of her Bradenton home, much of which she typically tosses out.

But she's recently had a change of heart about that.

"It was some company I never heard of, some foundation I don't know in Wilmington, Delaware," Evers said. "I looked at it and I thought it was junk mail."

As Evers went to throw the unopened envelope away, she said her husband urged her not to.

"He said, 'Jane, you need to open it, it could have a thousand dollars in it, for all you know," said Evers. "I said, 'Oh, yeah, right.' So, I opened it and it did have a check in it for $15,000 from an anonymous donor."

That donation will go a long way. Evers said the money will be used to feed the homeless children her group serves.

Every week, she and other volunteers fill up backpacks with nutritional food and then deliver them to schools. From there, school employees give them out to students to take home with them for the weekend.

"It's such a tragedy that we have homeless, hungry children," volunteer Pat Roberts said. "To find out the children are going home hungry over the weekend, I just had to help alleviate that as much as possible."

Every penny donated to this organization goes directly to the children. The group has no overhead costs. The space where they store their food and supplies is provided to them by a local church free of charge. The volunteers use their own cars and gas to drop off and pick up the backpacks at the schools weekly.

It's a big job volunteers said they're happy to do and is only possible thanks to generous donations like the one that almost didn't make it.

"Whoever did this, and if you happen to be listening or watching this out there, thank you, thank you," said Evers. "This was such a blessing to the children."

FELT currently provides weekend meals for about 150 to 160 students a week. Thanks to the recent donations, they plan on feeding an additional 50 kids per week starting in January.

FELT is in need of more volunteers. If you'd like to help or learn more about the group, visit their website at: www.feltinc.org.