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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 FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$59k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

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

5
’17
7
’18
10
’19
14
’20
7
’21
10
’22
8
’23
13
’24
12
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$3.0MHuman Services$245kHealth$213kFood & Nutrition$97kCrime & Legal$80kYouth Development$79kRecreation & Sports$77kAnimals$69kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $191,448 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $323,779 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $132,331 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $89k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROYAL PALM SAILING CLUB INC$59,381
ST ANDREW CATHOLIC PARISH AND SCHO$38,000
FAMILY INITIATIVE INCORPORATED$10,750
COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE MINISTRIES IN$10,000
VALARIE'S HOUSE$10,000
HOPE HOSPICE$10,000
SAMARITAN HEALTH & WELLNESS CENTER$10,000
CAPE CORAL ANIMAL SHELTER$8,125
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LEE & HENDR$8,125
DR PIPER CENTER$8,000
CAPE CORAL CARING CENTER$7,817
FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY$5,750
NEW HORIZONS OF SW FL$5,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $146k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NEW HORIZONS OF SW FL: $6k → 10%LIFELINE FAMILY CENTER INC: $6k → 11%HOPE HOSPICE: $10k → 11%HOPE HEALTHCARE: $6k → 11%COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE MINISTRIES IN: $10k → 11%COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE MINISTRIES IN: $10k → 11%COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE MINISTRIES IN: $10k → 11%COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE MINISTRIES IN: $10k → 11%COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE MINISTRIES IN: $8k → 11%DR PIPER CENTER: $8k → 11%DR PIPER CENTER: $6k → 11%HOPE HOSPICE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $6k → 11%CAPE CORAL CARING CENTER: $13k → 11%CAPE CORAL CARING CENTER: $12k → 11%BROTHERHOOD OF HEROES: $9k → 11%FAMILY INITIATIVE INCORPORATED: $11k → 11%THE FREEDOM & VIRTUE INSTITUTE: $7k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 19 repeat orgs$563k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
24

Total granted

$1.2M
$293k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+42%

Still filing today

84%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther

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

  • VH
    VALERIE'S HOUSE INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $67k · revenue +672%
  • CC
    CAPE CORAL ANIMAL SHELTER CORPORATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $64k · revenue +262%
  • IW
    I WILL MENTORSHIP FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $50k · revenue +254%

Funded once

  • CC
    CAPE CORAL POLICE DEPT
    one grant, 2023 · $53k
  • PI
    PATH2FREEDOM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $27k · revenue +306%
  • BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +3%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Florida Center for Early Childhood Inc

The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…

Human Services
2
The Womens Care Florida Foundation
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3
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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4
Florida Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc

Working in partnership with state business leaders to secure florida's future.

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5
Safe Children Coalition Inc

The safe children coalition's mission is to protect children and youth, strengthen families, and build community.

Human Services
6
Florida Association of Community Health Centers Inc

The mission of the florida association of community health centers, inc. is to advance florida's community health centers through resource development, partnerships, technical assistance, and increased community awareness.

Health
7
Suncoast Center Inc

For 80 years, suncoast center, inc. has held true to its mission of "strengthening, protecting, and restoring lives for a healthy community" by providing a comprehensive range of evidence-based services that address emotional wellness,…

Health
8
Florida Research Center for Agricultural Sustainability Inc
Philanthropy
9
Doctors Hospital Inc

As part of the baptist health network, the mission of doctors hospital, inc. is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist health is a…

Health
10
Cape Canaveral Hospital Inc

We exist to improve the health and wellness of the communities we serve.

Health
11
Centerstone of Florida Inc

Our mission is "delivering care that changes people's lives"

Health
12
Child Protection Center Inc

The mission of the child protection center, inc. is the prevention, intervention and treatment of child abuse. we envision a community where children are safe from abuse and free to thrive. to successfully address the issue of child abuse,…

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Cooperative Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brotherhood of Heroes Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%9%<5yr15%6%5–10yr21%21%10–20yr15%21%20–35yr10%41%35–55yr12%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%1%<5yr15%1%5–10yr21%7%10–20yr15%4%20–35yr10%87%35–55yr12%0%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
15%
394/2,703

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 60 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
24/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,634,069 · PhilanthropySOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC+1 more — $10,000 · PhilanthropyIndividual grant recipient — $321,103 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST ANDREW CATHOLIC PARISH AND SCHO — $280,508 · OtherST ANDREW CATHOLIC PARISH AND …VARIOUS GRANTS OR LESS THAN 5000 — $90,782 · OtherVARIOUS GRANTS OR LESS THAN 50…ROYAL PALM SAILING CLUB INC — $59,381 · OtherCAPE CORAL POLICE DEPT — $53,096 · Other+33 more — $389,947 · Other+33 moreVALERIE'S HOUSE INC — $67,265 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC — $48,000 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesCAPE CORAL CARING CENTER INC — $24,500 · Human ServicesHOPE HOSPICE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $21,398 · Human ServicesDR PIPER CENTER FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC — $14,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY INITIATIVE INC — $10,750 · Human ServicesBROTHERHOOD OF HEROES INC — $8,500 · Human Services+3 more — $18,400 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN HEALTH & WELLNESS CENTER INC — $46,250 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $37,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC — $37,000 · HealthABUSE COUNSELING & TREATMENT INC — $28,235 · HealthPARTNERS FOR BREAST CANCER CAREINC — $6,000 · HealthCAPE CORAL ANIMAL SHELTER CORPORATION — $63,730 · AnimalsI WILL MENTORSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC — $5,500 · Youth DevelopmentQUALITY LIFE CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $45,500 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$2,644,069Other$1,194,817Human Services$237,813Health$154,485Animals$63,730Youth Development$55,500Community Improvement$45,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,634,069 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetVALERIE'S HOUSE INC — $67,265 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCAPE CORAL ANIMAL SHELTER CORPORATION — $63,730 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetROYAL PALM SAILING CLUB INC — $59,381 over 1y, 30% of budgetI WILL MENTORSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetCOMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC — $48,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAN HEALTH & WELLNESS CENTER INC — $46,250 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetQUALITY LIFE CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $45,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $37,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC — $37,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetABUSE COUNSELING & TREATMENT INC — $28,235 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPATH2FREEDOM INC — $26,500 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSALUSCARE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEE BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION BUILDERS CARE — $24,500 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetCAPE CORAL CARING CENTER INC — $24,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HOSPICE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $21,398 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPREMIER MOBILE HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $18,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $16,250 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetDR PIPER CENTER FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC — $14,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY INITIATIVE INC — $10,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCAPE CORAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCAPE CORAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetHabitat for Humanity for Lee and Hendry Counties Inc — $8,125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FREEDOM & VIRTUE INSTITUTE INC — $6,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetLIFELINE FAMILY CENTER INC — $6,400 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPARTNERS FOR BREAST CANCER CAREINC — $6,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHEALTHY START COALITION OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The United Way of Lee…Southwest Florida Com…Suncoast Credit Union…Collier Community Fou…John E & Aliese Price…The Robert J Gunterbe…The Richard M Schulze…Daniel R & Anne M Har…The George and Mary J…Carol B Phelon Founda…The League Club IncFred & Jean Allegrett…
The United Way of Lee County IncFL42.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Cape Coral Community 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc — 69% of income from government
  • Dr Piper Center for Social Services Inc — 51% of income from government
  • Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
  • Saluscare Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Valerie's House Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Partners for Breast Cancer Careinc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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