Florida · Community foundation
Cape Coral Community Foundation
To provide a pool of philanthropic funds to meet charitable needs in the greater cape coral area and to assist in making charitable gifts
- $324k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 13
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
91% of Cape Coral Community Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 12 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Cape Coral Community Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $191k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Itemized, FY2024
- $191k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $59,381
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Cape Coral Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 13 | $191k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $187k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $151k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $174k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $237k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $270k | 63% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $194k | 63% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $91k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Andrew Catholic Parish and Scho | $280,508 | 9 | n/a |
| Valerie's House Inc | $67,265 | 4 | 2% |
| Cape Coral Animal Shelter Corporation | $63,730 | 7 | 2% |
| Royal Palm Sailing Club Inc | $59,381 | 1 | 30% |
| I Will Mentorship Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 16% |
| Community Cooperative Inc | $48,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Samaritan Health & Wellness Center Inc | $46,250 | 3 | 3% |
| Quality Life Center of Southwest Florida Inc | $45,500 | 2 | 2% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southwest Florida Inc | $37,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Southern Florida Inc | $37,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 42 grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($563k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cape Coral Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: The United Way of Lee County Inc · Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Collier Community Foundation Inc · John E & Aliese Price Foundation · The Robert J Gunterberg Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Daniel R & Anne M Harper Foundation · The George and Mary Jo Sanders Foun Inc · Carol B Phelon Foundation · The League Club Inc · Fred & Jean Allegretti Foundation
How this is measured
About Cape Coral Community Foundation
- How much does Cape Coral Community Foundation give?
- Cape Coral Community Foundation reported 13 itemized grants totaling $191,448, out of $323,779 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Cape Coral Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (68%), Human Services (6%), Health (5%).
- Who are Cape Coral Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Andrew Catholic Parish and Scho ($281k), Valerie's House Inc ($67k), Cape Coral Animal Shelter Corporation ($64k).
- Does Cape Coral Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cape Coral Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The United Way of Lee County Inc, Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc, Suncoast Credit Union Foundation.
- Where is Cape Coral Community Foundation based?
- Cape Coral Community Foundation is based in FL.
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