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Child Care of Southwest Florida Inc

To strengthen and enhance the lives of children and their families.

$7.4M
Granted FY2022
171
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$130k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Food & Nutrition$25MCivil Rights$315kHealth$276kEducation$203kHuman Services$126kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kReligion$6k
02FY2022 · 171 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 171 grants below total $5,476,417, the rows itemized in this filing. The $7,366,540 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,890,123 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k25 grants · $170k
  • $10k–50k115 grants · $3.0M
  • $50k–250k31 grants · $2.3M
$26,499
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ODYSSEY CHILD CARE CENTER INC$129,652
VICTORY ACADEMY LEHIGH LLC$120,792
LITTLE KINGDOM CHILD$109,658
FOR KIDS ONLY OF VERO BEACH INC$104,535
KIDDIE ACADEMY OF PORT SAINT LUCIE$100,156
CHILDREN'S CHOICE ACADEMY$94,730
ALL ABOUT KIDZ LEARNING CENTER$92,188
LITTLE BLESSINGS$90,554
CCA ALLSTARS AFTERSCHOOL$87,268
WOODEN SHOES CHILD CARE CENTER$83,376
KINDERLAND PLACE INC I$79,622
THORNBERRY LEARNING ACADEMY$78,897
THE SALVATION ARMY$77,626
TEACHABLE MOMENTS LEARNING CENTER LLC$76,301
THE HEIGHTS CENTER INC$65,471
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $229k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MAJORIE OLSEN HEAD START CENTER: $6k → 11%LE BUNNIES EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY: $30k → 9%LE BUNNIES EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY: $30k → 9%LE BUNNIES EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY INC: $24k → 9%LE BUNNIES EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY INC: $21k → 9%LE BUNNIES EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY: $26k → 9%LE BUNNIES EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY: $21k → 9%RCMA IMMOKALEE COMM SCH-AMP: $7k → 10%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $21k → 10%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $14k → 10%CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY EARLY EDUCAT: $29k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24M · 173 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

173 repeat relationships: 118 still active in FY2022, 55 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

173
50

Total granted

$24M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+62%

Still filing today

6%
6%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $405k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EducationHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TG
    THE GUATEMALAN-MAYA CENTER INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $315k · revenue +172%
  • PA
    PEDIATRIC ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT CARE HOUSING & EVALU SERVICES INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $259k · revenue +13%
  • TH
    THE HEIGHTS CENTER INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $222k · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • KK
    Kids Kastle Child Care Center Corp
    one grant, 2017 · $77k
  • AA
    A'KELYNN'S ANGELS LEARNING CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $70k
  • AM
    A MAGICAL LEARNING CENTER LLC
    one grant, 2017 · $61k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Little Footprints Learning Center

To improve the learning for the childrens in the community

Religion
2
Success Through Academics and Role Models

After school program

Youth Development
3
Children-At-Promise Early Learning

Children at-promise elc has been a trusted leader in early childhood education and childcare for the past 20 years. we serve infants, toddlers, preschool, pre k. our mission at children at-promise is to daily surround your child in a safe,…

Human Services
4
Kid Central

Our mission is to provide quality and safe childcare for the families in our community and provide our youngest learners with a positive start to their education journey.

Education
5
Precious Ones Learning Center Inc

Our goal is to begin to build a positive self-image for the children where they receive quality and personal individualized care in a warm loving environment.

Unclassified
6
Monarch Preschool Inc

Monarch Preschool offers a unique play-based learning experience for your child. Play-based, child-led education supports social and emotional development, strengthens language and numeracy skills, and inspires a life-long love of learning.

—
7
The First Three Years Quality Care for Infants & Toddlers

Education/care for infants & toddlers

—
8
The Sunshine Academy & Daycare Corp

The mission of the sunshine academy and daycare corp. is to partner with manatee county and parents to provide a biblically based academic environment where children can grow intellectually, phsically, socially and spiritually.

Education
9
Aunt Faye Early Learning Academy

The Aunt Faye Educational Foundation's mission is to provide daycare and educational services to underprivileged children, focusing on developing their cognitive, social, and emotional skills. This is achieved through quality education and…

Human Services
10
Tlc Child Care Inc

Provide christian based daycare and pre-school

Human Services
11
Peter Pan Day Care Inc & Kindergarten of Clanton Inc

We are serving day care & child care services for infants & minor children. we provide educational cultural & social training as well as health & physical education to the pupils.

—
12
Kindergarten Preparatory Preschool

Provide high-quality education to young children

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heights Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Thy Kingdom Kids Learning Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 244 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+188 more: $23,685,889 · Other+188 moreFSCA INC: $134,224 · EducationNICAEA ACADEMY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $117,178 · EducationPRECIOUS JEWELS ACADEMY LEARNING CENTER INC: $70,792 · EducationSUPER Y ACADEMY INC: $61,918 · EducationTHY KINGDOM KIDS LEARNING ACADEMY: $34,723 · EducationTHE GUATEMALAN-MAYA CENTER INC: $315,304 · Civil RightsPEDIATRIC ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT CARE HOUSING & EVALU SERVICES INC: $258,565 · HealthLE BUNNIES EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY INC: $153,049 · Human ServicesGRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $34,650 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $34,511 · Human ServicesTHE HEIGHTS CENTER INC: $222,118 · Community ImprovementM AND M FAMILY CARE CENTER INC: $81,939 · Housing & Shelter
Other$23,685,889Education$418,835Civil Rights$315,304Health$258,565Human Services$222,210Community Improvement$222,118Housing & Shelter$81,939

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE GUATEMALAN-MAYA CENTER INC: $315,304 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetPEDIATRIC ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT CARE HOUSING & EVALU SERVICES INC: $258,565 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTHE HEIGHTS CENTER INC: $222,118 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetLE BUNNIES EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY INC: $153,049 over 6y, 11% of budgetFSCA INC: $134,224 over 4y, 11% of budgetLEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $130,570 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCHILD'S PATH INC: $124,279 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetYMCA OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $109,350 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetM AND M FAMILY CARE CENTER INC: $81,939 over 2y, 14% of budgetKids Kastle Child Care Center Corp: $76,714 over 1y, 20% of budgetPRECIOUS JEWELS ACADEMY LEARNING CENTER INC: $70,792 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetSUPER Y ACADEMY INC: $61,918 over 4y, 50% of budgetYMCA of Collier County: $40,851 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHY KINGDOM KIDS LEARNING ACADEMY: $34,723 over 3y, 14% of budgetGRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $34,650 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA: $34,511 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 GUATEMALAN-MAYA CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds PEDIATRIC ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT CARE HOUSING & EVALU SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HEIGHTS CENTER INC ↗

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.

Early Learning Coalition of Broward County IncFL20.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 4 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Early Learning Coalition of Broward County Inc · Carol B Phelon Foundation · Naples Children Foundation Inc · The League Club Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · Collier Community Foundation Inc · The United Way of Lee County Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Child Care of Southwest Florida Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Child Care of Southwest Florida Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Children's Home Society of Florida: 6% of income from government
  • Lee Memorial Hospital Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Ymca of Collier County: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Child Care of Southwest Florida Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 244 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $9.7M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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