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Community Foundation of the Florida Keys

To connect people, resources and needs through philanthropy.

$1.8M
Granted FY2021
32
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$404k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$2.5MPublic Safety & Disaster$872kHousing & Shelter$559kEnvironment$452kFood & Nutrition$317kAnimals$299kEducation$238kReligion$133kOther$0
02FY2021 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 32 grants below total $1,217,669 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,829,989 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $612,320 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 · FY2021

  • Under $10k14 grants · $104k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $251k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $459k
  • $250k+1 grant · $404k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Studios of Key West$403,788
USCGC Ingham Memorial Museum$210,000
Monroe County Board of County Commissioners$147,000
Fringe Theater Key West$51,395
Key West Botanical Garden Society$50,541
Metropolitan Community Church Key West$48,400
Sister Season Fund$33,650
Presbyterian Church (USA) A Corporation$24,167
Star of the Sea Foundation$23,350
St Paul's Episcopal Church$21,000
Samuel's House$19,369
Key West Literary Seminar$14,000
Unity of the Keys Spiritual Center$14,000
Florida Keys Council of the Arts$12,200
Florida Keys SPCA$11,260
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $374k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AIDS Healthcare Foundation: $6k → 14%Child Care Aware of America: $9k → 7%KAIR (Keys Area Interdenominational Resources): $40k → 13%Independence Cay: $30k → 13%KAIR (Keys Area Interdenominational Resources): $11k → 13%Samuels House Inc: $70k → 13%Samuel's House Inc: $62k → 13%Samuels House Inc: $23k → 13%Wesley House Family Services: $22k → 13%Samuel's House: $19k → 13%Samuel's House Inc: $17k → 13%Womankind Inc: $16k → 13%Catholic Charities: $10k → 13%Hospice of the Florida Keys and Visiting Nurse Associatin: $10k → 13%Key West Police Department Love Fund: $10k → 13%Womankind Inc: $6k → 13%Womankind Inc: $5k → 13%Just Older Youth: $8k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.6M · 44 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2021, 22 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
62

Total granted

$4.6M
$858k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+25%

Still filing today

82%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $249k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther

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

  • TS
    THE STUDIOS OF KEY WEST
    5× · 2017–2021 · $966k · revenue +7%
  • MH
    MIAMI-DADE HISTORICAL MARITIME MUSEUM INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $540k · revenue +139% · 58% of their budget
  • FK
    FLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $287k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • MC
    MONROE COUNTY COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN INC
    one grant, 2017 · $45k · revenue -56%
  • SC
    ST COLUMBA EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $41k
  • KW
    KEY WEST ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +27% · 30% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Florida Keys Fishing Guides

Dedicated to the conservation and preservation of the waters in and around south florida through wise fishery & watermanagement practices, while recognizing the importance of sport fishing to the local economy and the cultural heritage of…

Animals
2
Performing Arts Center of Key West Inc

Provide performing arts to the florida keys.

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3
Friends of the Monroe County Public Library in Key West Florida Inc

To Provide financial support for the Monroe County Public Library in Key West, FL

Education
4
Key Peninsula Civic Center Association

Operate a community center for the benefit of the citizens of the key peninsula.

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5
Florida Keys Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center Inc

Rescue, rehabilitate, and release native and migratory wild birds harmed or displaced; provide or locate a humane shelter for those birds that cannot be released; and educate the public.

Animals
6
Key West Garden Club Inc

The club's mission is to provide education opportunities for the community relating to tropical gardening and the west martello fort, a historic facility home of the kw garden club

Environment
7
Pigeon Key Foundation Inc

Research and education

Environment
8
Key West Military Affairs Committee Inc

To foster and strengthen the relationship between the civilian and military communities.

Public Benefit
9
Montessori Children's School of Key West Inc

Provide preschool education and childcare in Key West.

Education
10
Florida Keys Board of Realtors Charitable Trust Inc

To provide outreach programs, grants, scholarships and charitable donations within the local community.

Public Benefit
11
Marine Preservation Society of the Florida Keys Inc

The marine preservation society of the florida keys (mps) is a new nonprofit organization working to steward our beautiful florida keys waters. in an island chain boasting many marine organizations.

Environment
12
The Learning Center of Key West Inc

Provide daycare education of children ages one to four years, focusing on social, behavioral cognitive skills. Located in a multicultural neighborhood, these services facilitate real-income earning households with an engaging environment…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Key West Art and Historical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Key Bridge Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr22%18%10–20yr19%35%20–35yr11%22%35–55yr11%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr22%30%10–20yr19%37%20–35yr11%22%35–55yr11%9%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/115
the rest of the field
12%
69/567

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.

04the grantee network

82 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. 82 of the 116 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/82
Grantees still filing
57/82
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE STUDIOS OF KEY WEST — $965,683 · Arts & CultureTHE STUDIOS OF KEY WESTMIAMI-DADE HISTORICAL MARITIME MUSEUM INC — $540,000 · Arts & CultureMIAMI-DADE HISTORICAL MARITIME MUSEUM INCKEY WEST FILM SOCIETY INC — $171,600 · Arts & CultureKEY WEST FILM SOCIETY INCKey West Impromptu Classical Concerts Inc — $81,200 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $296,685 · Arts & Culture+12 moreKEY WEST ART AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $148,599 · OtherKEY WEST ART AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCMonroe County Board of County Commissioners — $147,000 · OtherMonroe County Board of County Commissio…FLORIDA KEYS OUTREACH COALITION INC — $143,730 · OtherFLORIDA KEYS OUTREACH COALITION INCKEY WEST PLAYERS INC — $134,500 · OtherKEY WEST PLAYERS INCMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH KEY WEST — $118,150 · OtherMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH KEY WESTKEY WEST LITERARY SEMINAR INC — $90,713 · OtherDIOCESE OF SOUTHEAST FLORIDA ST PAULS EPISCOPAL CHURCH 401 DUVAL S — $74,000 · OtherSISTER SEASON FUND INC — $118,707 · OtherSISTER SEASON FUND INC+59 more — $999,499 · Other+59 moreKEY WEST BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY — $400,545 · EnvironmentReef Relief Inc — $15,400 · Environment+1 more — $10,000 · EnvironmentSAMUEL'S HOUSE INC — $191,824 · Human ServicesKEYS AREA INTERDENOMINATIONAL RESOURCES INC — $50,500 · Human ServicesMONROE ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS INC — $35,450 · Human ServicesINDEPENDENCE CAY INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesWOMANKIND INC — $26,803 · Human ServicesWESLEY HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES INC — $22,000 · Human Services+6 more — $53,250 · Human ServicesSTAR OF THE SEA FOUNDATION INC — $119,949 · HealthAH OF MONROE COUNTY — $81,770 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $30,000 · HealthFlorida Keys Healthy Start Coalition — $27,500 · HealthFLORIDA KEYS AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC — $26,500 · HealthA POSITIVE STEP OF MONROE COUNTY — $25,700 · HealthRURAL HEALTH NETWORK OF MONROE CO INC — $15,000 · Health+2 more — $20,000 · HealthFLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC — $286,661 · Animals+2 more — $12,000 · AnimalsMONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $99,143 · EducationMONTESSORI ISLAND CHARTER SCHOOLINC — $19,500 · EducationEARLY LEARNING COALITION OF MIAMI DADE MONROE INC — $15,000 · EducationBIG PINE ELEMENTARY ACADEMY INC — $15,000 · EducationST FRANCIS COLLEGE — $10,000 · EducationKeys To Be The Change Inc — $6,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$2,055,168Other$1,974,898Environment$425,945Human Services$409,827Health$346,419Animals$298,661Education$164,643

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE STUDIOS OF KEY WEST — $965,683 over 5y, 11% of budgetMIAMI-DADE HISTORICAL MARITIME MUSEUM INC — $540,000 over 4y, 58% of budgetKEY WEST BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY — $400,545 over 5y, 14% of budgetFLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC — $286,661 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSAMUEL'S HOUSE INC — $191,824 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetKEY WEST FILM SOCIETY INC — $171,600 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKEY WEST ART AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $148,599 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetFLORIDA KEYS OUTREACH COALITION INC — $143,730 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetKEY WEST PLAYERS INC — $134,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetSTAR OF THE SEA FOUNDATION INC — $119,949 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSISTER SEASON FUND INC — $118,707 over 3y, 20% of budgetMONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $99,143 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetKEY WEST LITERARY SEMINAR INC — $90,713 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetAH OF MONROE COUNTY — $81,770 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetKey West Impromptu Classical Concerts Inc — $81,200 over 5y, 24% of budgetMONROE COUNCIL OF THE ARTS CORPORATION — $66,400 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetFRINGE THEATER OF KEY WEST INC — $62,645 over 3y, 25% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $56,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetKEYS AREA INTERDENOMINATIONAL RESOURCES INC — $50,500 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetMONROE COUNTY COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN INC — $44,650 over 1y, 13% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Keys Area Inc — $44,050 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetBAHAMA VILLAGE MUSIC PROGRAM INC — $38,300 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetMONROE ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS INC — $35,450 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPROTECT KEY WEST INC — $35,087 over 3y, 79% of budgetKEY WEST ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetEQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC — $33,700 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDEPENDENCE CAY INC — $30,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetSEACAMP ASSOCIATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFlorida Keys Healthy Start Coalition — $27,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetWOMANKIND INC — $26,803 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFLORIDA KEYS AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC — $26,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetA POSITIVE STEP OF MONROE COUNTY — $25,700 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetFLORIDA KEYS FISHING GUIDES ASSOCIATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetFLORIDA KEYS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST I — $22,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWESLEY HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES INC — $22,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of the Middle Keys Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMONTESSORI ISLAND CHARTER SCHOOLINC — $19,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF UPPER KEYS INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLEADERSHIP MONROE COUNTY INC — $16,200 over 2y, 54% of budgetTHE MARATHON COMMUNITY THEATRE INC — $16,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetCORNERSTONE RESOURCE ALLIANCE INC — $16,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF KEY LARGO CHARITABLE EVENTS INC — $16,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetReef Relief Inc — $15,400 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetEARLY LEARNING COALITION OF MIAMI DADE MONROE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG PINE ELEMENTARY ACADEMY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMM50 RELIEF PROJECT INC — $15,000 over 1y, 76% of budgetOLD ISLAND RESTORATION FOUNDATION — $11,500 over 1y, 4.7% of budget
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.

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.

Ocean Reef Community …United Way of Collier…Edward B and Joan T K…Hunterward FoundationKlaus Murphy FdnKeys Open Doors Found…The Clements Family C…United Way of the Flo…Harry & Harriet Ruchm…The Batchelor Foundat…Lookout Foundation IncThe Dogwood Foundation
Ocean Reef Community Foundation IncFL39.2× affinity17 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ocean Reef Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Collier and the Keys Inc · Edward B and Joan T Knight Foundati Foundation Inc · Hunterward Foundation · Klaus Murphy Fdn · Keys Open Doors Foundation Inc · The Clements Family Charitable Trust · United Way of the Florida Keys Inc · Harry & Harriet Ruchman Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Lookout Foundation Inc · The Dogwood Foundation

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 the Florida Keys 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 280%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Rural Health Network of Monroe Co Inc — 61% of income from government
  • Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Star of the Sea Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Key Bridge Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Early Learning Coalition of Miami Dade Monroe Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Monroe Association for Retarded Citizens Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Ah of Monroe County — 1% of income from government
  • Upper Keys Humane Society Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Monroe Council of the Arts Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Samuel's House Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Key West Film Society Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
28get no government money at all
33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 116 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $2.9M 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 FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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