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Community Foundation of South Lake County Inc

The Foundations purpose is to enhance the lives of the residents of South Lake County now and for future generations by working together with our donors to build resources, address needs, and collaborate on key community issues and initiatives.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Itemized grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2021
47%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2024
$619k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$14,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$240,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 18
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$20M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 47% of the organizations Community Foundation of South Lake County Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 65% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $850k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21
Human ServicesEducationHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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 arriving18$619k56%
FY202117$1.3M47%
FY202018$386k83%
FY20194$134k50%
FY201714$189kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$568kReligion$403kHuman Services$364kEducation$346kFood & Nutrition$252kRecreation & Sports$160kPhilanthropy$137kYouth Development$117kOther$0

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
Lifestream Behavioral Center Inc$400,00031%
Feed And Instruct The Hungry Neighborhood Center$244,07868%
Living Message Church Inc$222,5047n/a
SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc$150,01151%
Central Florida Hope Center Inc$123,818315%
Word Keepers of Clermont Florida Inc$74,548430%
Habitat for Humanity of Lake-Sumter Florida Inc$68,90491%
Hands of Hope America$64,548381%
The Church at South Lake$63,5006n/a
Family Matters of Central Florida Inc$60,000630%
Show all 37 grantees
All grantees of Community Foundation of South Lake County Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lifestream Behavioral Center Inc$400,00031%
Feed And Instruct The Hungry Neighborhood Center$244,07868%
Living Message Church Inc$222,5047n/a
SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc$150,01151%
Central Florida Hope Center Inc$123,818315%
Word Keepers of Clermont Florida Inc$74,548430%
Habitat for Humanity of Lake-Sumter Florida Inc$68,90491%
Hands of Hope America$64,548381%
The Church at South Lake$63,5006n/a
Family Matters of Central Florida Inc$60,000630%
Early Learning Coalition of Lake County Inc$59,49230%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$57,68620%
New Beginnings of Central Florida Inc$34,50081%
Building Blocks Ministries Inc$32,50065%
E 3 Family Solutions Inc$31,749111%
Lake Community Action Agency Inc$31,50041%
Be Free Lake Inc$30,910113%
Greenville Tech Foundation Inc$25,00030%
Florida's Vision Quest Inc$25,00032%
Vertical Church Inc$24,0002n/a
Educational Foundation of Lake County Inc$21,99222%
Central Florida Pediatric Therapy Foundation Inc$21,52525%
Thrive Clermont Inc$21,000220%
Haven of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc$20,00021%
Real Life Christian Church of Clermont Inc$19,0001n/a
Reasons for Hope Inc$17,70031%
Milestone Counseling Inc$17,5002n/a
Project Sos - Support Our Soldiers Inc$13,5001n/a
First Unted Methodist Clermont$10,1933n/a
Lake County Rowing Association$10,0002n/a
Episcopal Children's Services Inc$10,00020%
Straight Forward Ministries Inc$10,000211%
Forward Paths Foundation Inc$10,00025%
Zion's Hope Inc$10,00020%
South Lake Hospital Foundation Inc$8,13322%
Love Groveland Inc$7,5001n/a
New Vision for Independence Inc$6,00021%

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($579k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Community Foundation of South Lake County Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLifestream Behavioral Center Inc: $400,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFeed And Instruct The Hungry Neighborhood Center: $244,078 over 6y, 7.9% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc: $150,011 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCentral Florida Hope Center Inc: $123,818 over 3y, 15% of budgetWord Keepers of Clermont Florida Inc: $74,548 over 4y, 30% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Lake-Sumter Florida Inc: $68,904 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetHands of Hope America: $64,548 over 3y, 81% of budgetFamily Matters of Central Florida Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 30% of budgetEarly Learning Coalition of Lake County Inc: $59,492 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $57,686 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew Beginnings of Central Florida Inc: $34,500 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetBuilding Blocks Ministries Inc: $32,500 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetE 3 Family Solutions Inc: $31,749 over 1y, 11% of budgetLake Community Action Agency Inc: $31,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBe Free Lake Inc: $30,910 over 1y, 13% of budgetGreenville Tech Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFlorida's Vision Quest Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetEducational Foundation of Lake County Inc: $21,992 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCentral Florida Pediatric Therapy Foundation Inc: $21,525 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetThrive Clermont Inc: $21,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetHaven of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetReasons for Hope Inc: $17,700 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetEpiscopal Children's Services Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStraight Forward Ministries Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetForward Paths Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetZion's Hope Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSouth Lake Hospital Foundation Inc: $8,133 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNew Vision for Independence Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 1.3% 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 28.

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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.

United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties IncFL34.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc · Live Well Foundation of South Lake Inc · Mount Dora Community Trust · Hans and Cay Jacobsen Charitable Foundat · Harper Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc · Charles B & Mary M McLin Foundation · Schmid Foundation Inc · Williams M M & R P Fdn Ta · Parker Irma & Orville Ch Tr Ta · Dorothy B C Steves Char Ta · W T Bland Jr Charitable Tua

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 Community Foundation of South Lake County Inc

How much does Community Foundation of South Lake County Inc give?
Community Foundation of South Lake County Inc reported 18 itemized grants totaling $618,706, out of $2,987,768 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Community Foundation of South Lake County Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (22%), Religion (15%), Human Services (14%).
Who are Community Foundation of South Lake County Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Lifestream Behavioral Center Inc ($400k), Feed And Instruct The Hungry Neighborhood Center ($244k), Living Message Church Inc ($223k).
Does Community Foundation of South Lake County Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation of South Lake County Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc, Live Well Foundation of South Lake Inc, Mount Dora Community Trust.
Where is Community Foundation of South Lake County Inc based?
Community Foundation of South Lake County 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 49 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $1.4M 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 FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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