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Charitable Foundation of the Islands Inc

As a public grantmaking charity serving the islands of sanibel and captiva, our mission is to inspire philanthropy, leadership and collaboration for the vitality of the island communnity.

$575k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
17
Itemized grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
38%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$520k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$167,350
Organizations funded a year
5 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$7.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Charitable Foundation of the Islands Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $336k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentAnimalsPhilanthropyHealthOther
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 arriving16$500k63%
FY202316$724k38%
FY202215$706k33%
FY202117$820k59%
FY202012$298k33%
FY20198$478k25%
FY201812$378k83%
FY20175$183kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$865kHuman Services$778kArts & Culture$716kEnvironment$383kAnimals$242kHealth$238kPublic Safety & Disaster$222kPhilanthropy$213kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
NY
PA
CA
MO
AZ
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fish of Sanibel-Captiva Inc$795,15086%
Ding Darling Wildlife Society Inc$212,73542%
Community Housing and Resources Inc$156,80054%
Linden Hall School for Girls$150,00031%
The United Way of Lee County Inc$126,00050%
Albright College$103,15310%
Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation$82,00040%
St Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church$50,0001n/a
Sanibel Captiva Islands Chamber of Commerce Inc$38,83117%
Syracuse University$32,50020%
Show all 27 grantees
All grantees of Charitable Foundation of the Islands Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fish of Sanibel-Captiva Inc$795,15086%
Ding Darling Wildlife Society Inc$212,73542%
Community Housing and Resources Inc$156,80054%
Linden Hall School for Girls$150,00031%
The United Way of Lee County Inc$126,00050%
Albright College$103,15310%
Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation$82,00040%
St Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church$50,0001n/a
Sanibel Captiva Islands Chamber of Commerce Inc$38,83117%
Syracuse University$32,50020%
Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife Inc$29,60031%
The Foundation for Lee County Public Schools Inc$25,00011%
Captains for Clean Water Inc$20,00021%
Island Seniors Inc$20,0001n/a
Vedanta Society of St Louis$15,0001n/a
Florida Gulf Coast Univeristy Financing Corp$14,21810%
Shell Museum and Educational Foundation Inc$12,50010%
Sanibel Historical Museum & Village Inc$11,00012%
Barrier Island Group for the Arts$10,00010%
Neighborhood Health Clinic Inc$10,00010%
The Arts Partnership$10,00010%
Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc$10,00010%
Friends of Sax-Zim Bog$10,00012%
Man Up to Cancer$10,00013%
Captiva Island Historical Society$10,000112%
Sanibel-Captiva Shell Club Inc$7,0001n/a
Sanibel Community Association Inc$5,38411%

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFish of Sanibel-Captiva Inc: $795,150 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetDing Darling Wildlife Society Inc: $212,735 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetCommunity Housing and Resources Inc: $156,800 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetLinden Hall School for Girls: $150,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe United Way of Lee County Inc: $126,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAlbright College: $103,153 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation: $82,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSanibel Captiva Islands Chamber of Commerce Inc: $38,831 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetSyracuse University: $32,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetClinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife Inc: $29,600 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe Foundation for Lee County Public Schools Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCaptains for Clean Water Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFlorida Gulf Coast Univeristy Financing Corp: $14,218 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShell Museum and Educational Foundation Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSanibel Historical Museum & Village Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBarrier Island Group for the Arts: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNeighborhood Health Clinic Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Arts Partnership: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHarry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Sax-Zim Bog: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMan Up to Cancer: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCaptiva Island Historical Society: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSanibel Community Association Inc: $5,384 over 1y, 0.9% 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 23.

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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.

Lat FoundationCT15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lat Foundation · Eugene Holt Massey Charitable Trust · Hanser Family Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Charitable Foundation of the Islands Inc

How much does Charitable Foundation of the Islands Inc give?
Charitable Foundation of the Islands Inc reported 17 itemized grants totaling $520,424, out of $575,424 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Charitable Foundation of the Islands Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (21%), Human Services (19%), Arts & Culture (17%).
Who are Charitable Foundation of the Islands Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Fish of Sanibel-Captiva Inc ($795k), Ding Darling Wildlife Society Inc ($213k), Community Housing and Resources Inc ($157k).
Does Charitable Foundation of the Islands Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Charitable Foundation of the Islands Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lat Foundation, Eugene Holt Massey Charitable Trust, Hanser Family Foundation.
Where is Charitable Foundation of the Islands Inc based?
Charitable Foundation of the Islands Inc is based in FL.

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 53 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 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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