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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 FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$240k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $618,706, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,987,768 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,369,062 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $440k
$14,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Episcopal Childrens Services: $10k → 14%Faith Neighborhood Center: $159k → 10%The Neighborhood Center: $63k → 10%Faith Neighborhood Center: $23k → 10%Haven of Lake and Sumpter County: $20k → 10%Love Groveland Inc: $8k → 10%Central Florida Hope Center: $124k → 10%Family Matters of Central Florida: $25k → 10%Family Matters of Central Florida: $20k → 10%Family Matters of Central Florida: $15k → 10%New Vision for Independance Inc: $6k → 10%Lake Community Action Agency: $25k → 10%Lake Community Action Agency: $7k → 10%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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 12 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +47% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
27

Total granted

$1.0M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+47%

Still filing today

75%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $480k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’24
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FA
    Feed And Instruct The Hungry Neighborhood Center
    6× · 2020–2025 · $244k · revenue +198%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $150k · revenue +37%
  • WK
    Word Keepers of Clermont Florida Inc
    4× · 2020–2023 · $75k · revenue ×16 · 30% of their budget

Funded once

  • LB
    Lifestream Behavioral Center Inc
    3× · 2021–2023 · $400k · revenue +7%
  • CF
    Central Florida Hope Center Inc
    3× · 2021–2023 · $124k · revenue -15%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2020–2023 · $80k
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
Lamp of Hope Ministry Inc

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…

Human Services
2
Lyfehouse Inc

Youth and Family training services.

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3
Hope South Florida Inc

Providing hope for the homeless and hurting through housing, case management, support services and strategic alliances.

Human Services
4
Find Feed & Restore Inc

Eliminate homelessness through housing, financial literacy and mental health counseling.

Housing & Shelter
5
Hope Helps Inc

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.

Human Services
6
Living Hope Inc

Living Hope is a charitable organization partnering with schools, the faith community, and stakeholders in trauma and behavioral health in North Central Florida

Health
7
Grace Counseling Center of Florida Inc

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.…

Health
8
Choices House Inc

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

Human Services
9
Feeding Dreams Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
10
Florida Economic Consortium Inc

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…

Community Improvement
11
Central Florida Childrens Home

To provide homes for disadvantaged children.

Human Services
12
House of Hope Orlando Inc

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…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Florida Hope Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
19/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Montgomery Center for Excellence: $240,000 · OtherMontgomery Center for ExcellenceLIVING MESSAGE CHURCH INC: $222,504 · OtherLIVING MESSAGE CHURCH INCSamaritans Purse: $80,000 · OtherSamaritans PurseIndividual grant recipient: $80,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE CHURCH AT SOUTH LAKE: $63,500 · OtherTHE CHURCH AT SOUTH LAKEIndividual grant recipient: $48,160 · Other+23 more: $436,442 · Other+23 moreFeed And Instruct The Hungry Neighborhood Center: $244,078 · Human ServicesFeed And Instruct The Hu…Central Florida Hope Center Inc: $123,818 · Human ServicesCentral Florida Hope Cen…Word Keepers of Clermont Florida Inc: $74,548 · Human ServicesWord Keepers of Clermont…FAMILY MATTERS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY MATTERS OF CENTRA…LAKE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $31,500 · Human ServicesLAKE COMMUNITY ACTION AG…HAVEN OF LAKE AND SUMTER COUNTIES INC: $20,000 · Human Services+3 more: $23,500 · Human ServicesLifestream Behavioral Center Inc: $400,000 · HealthLifestream Behavior…NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $57,686 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE S…SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc: $150,011 · Recreation & SportsLake County Rowing Association: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsEARLY LEARNING COALITION OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $59,492 · EducationGREENVILLE TECH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationEDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $21,992 · EducationHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LAKE-SUMTER FLORIDA INC: $68,904 · Housing & ShelterCentral Florida Pediatric Therapy Foundation Inc: $21,525 · Housing & ShelterHANDS OF HOPE AMERICA: $64,548 · Youth DevelopmentFORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,170,606Human Services$577,444Health$457,686Recreation & Sports$160,011Education$106,484Housing & Shelter$90,429Youth Development$74,548

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 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
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 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 Lake County Rowing Association ↗
  • Who funds EPISCOPAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds STRAIGHT FORWARD MINISTRIES 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.

United Way of Lake an…Live Well Foundation …Mount Dora Community …Hans and Cay Jacobsen…Harper Family Charita…Second Harvest Food B…Charles B & Mary M Mc…Schmid Foundation IncWilliams M M & R P Fd…Parker Irma & Orville…Dorothy B C Steves Ch…W T Bland Jr Charitab…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Community Foundation of South Lake County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Foundation of South Lake County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 37%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
6report 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
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.

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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