· Community foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $618,706 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,987,768 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,369,062 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 · $44k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $440k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Montgomery Center for Excellence | $240,000 |
| Samaritans Purse | $80,000 |
| The Neighborhood Center | $62,520 |
| National MS Society | $57,686 |
| Family Matters of Central Florida | $25,000 |
| Verticle Church | $24,000 |
| Thrive Clermont | $21,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| New Beginnings of Central Florida | $14,500 |
| Intnl Found of Christians and Jews | $10,000 |
| Reasins for Hope | $10,000 |
| Zions Hope | $10,000 |
| Oakland Prebyterian Church | $9,000 |
| Hands of Hope America Community Ctr | $8,500 |
| Find Feed & Restore | $8,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $503k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $480k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FAFeed And Instruct The Hungry Neighborhood Center6× · 2020–2025 · $244k · revenue +198%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $150k · revenue +37%
- WKWord Keepers of Clermont Florida Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $75k · revenue ×16 · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- LBLifestream Behavioral Center Inc3× · 2021–2023 · $400k · revenue +7%
- CFCentral Florida Hope Center Inc3× · 2021–2023 · $124k · revenue -15%
- IGIndividual grant recipient4× · 2020–2023 · $80k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Lamp of Hope Ministries is a non profit organization committed to improving the well-being of families and individuals facing poverty homelessness domestic abuse low literacy military family service major illness and the aftermath of…
Youth and Family training services.
Providing hope for the homeless and hurting through housing, case management, support services and strategic alliances.
Eliminate homelessness through housing, financial literacy and mental health counseling.
To prevent and reduce hunger and homelessness in central florida by equipping individuals and families to become self-sufficient through housing, outreach, prevention, and education.
Living Hope is a charitable organization partnering with schools, the faith community, and stakeholders in trauma and behavioral health in North Central Florida
Grace Counseling exists to make professional counseling affordable and accessible, removing barriers so individuals and families can find hope and healing. We provide individual, couples, family and group counseling to ages 4 and older.…
CHOICES House Inc was founded to provide mentoring, therapeudic and transitional living services to adolescent men and women with pre-independent living facility. CHOICES House manages 3 houses serving the State of Florida
The mission of Feeding Dreams to combat childhood hunger and malnutrition that affect one in five children in Florida. Through grants, fundraising efforts, and school partnerships, we delivered 2.5 million highly nutritious meals to…
FEC focuses on financial literacy, job training, education, and access to essential services, helping families build a brighter future. Through workshops, seminars, one-on-one counseling, and partnerships with local organizations, we…
To provide homes for disadvantaged children.
The organization is a residental counseling facility that provides on-site schooling for the youth in the program. this work is based on biblical principals, proven to provide workable and successful solutions in restoring troubled teens…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Florida Hope Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 49 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Lifestream Behavioral Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Feed And Instruct The Hungry Neighborhood Center ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc ↗
- Who funds Central Florida Hope Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Word Keepers of Clermont Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LAKE-SUMTER FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS OF HOPE AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FAMILY MATTERS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Building Blocks Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds E 3 FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds BE FREE LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA'S VISION QUEST INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Central Florida Pediatric Therapy Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Thrive Clermont Inc ↗
- Who funds HAVEN OF LAKE AND SUMTER COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds REASONS FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds STRAIGHT FORWARD MINISTRIES INC ↗
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.
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
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 Community Foundation of South Lake County Inc 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.
- E 3 Family Solutions Inc — 99% of income from government
- Hands of Hope America — 98% of income from government
- Episcopal Children's Services Inc — 42% of income from government
- Be Free Lake Inc — 37% of income from government
- Lifestream Behavioral Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity of Lake-Sumter Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Building Blocks Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
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.