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Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation Inc

Raise funds for charitable organizations whose primary function is to care for children in distress and need

$3.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Itemized grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
8%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$2.5M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$208,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$285,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 12
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$4.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentHealthEducationHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
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
FY2025still arriving12$2.5M0%
FY202412$2.2M8%
FY202312$2.4M17%
FY202212$2.4M17%
FY202112$2.4M17%
FY20203$24k67%
FY201912$3.4Mn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$4.7MHuman Services$2.6MYouth Development$2.0MCrime & Legal$1.7MHousing & Shelter$1.2MEducation$740kFood & Nutrition$647kCommunity Improvement$325kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEmerald Coast Childrens Advocacy Center Inc: $1,660,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetEmerald Coast Autism Center In: $1,443,000 over 6y, 8.3% of budgetChildren in Crisis Inc: $1,236,500 over 6y, 13% of budgetChildrens Volunteer Health Network Inc: $1,090,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetThe Boys and Girls Clubs of Th Emerald Coast Foundation Inc: $885,500 over 4y, 39% of budgetSacred Heart Foundation Inc: $883,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetMental Health Association of Okaloosa/Walton Counties Inc: $761,775 over 5y, 41% of budgetEllison McCraney Ingram Foundation: $740,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetFood for Thought Outreach Inc: $647,400 over 4y, 28% of budgetPoint Washington Medical Clinic Inc: $545,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetShelter House Inc: $524,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetOpportunity Place Inc: $511,800 over 4y, 34% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Walton County Inc: $485,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetCaring & Sharing of South Walton Inc: $420,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of the Emerald Coast Inc: $390,250 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetHorizons of Okaloosa County Inc: $375,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetPathways for Change Inc: $240,400 over 2y, 26% of budgetYouth Village Inc: $217,500 over 2y, 35% 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 18.

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 Emerald CoastFL22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Emerald Coast · The St Joe Community Foundation Inc · Dugas Family Foundation Inc · The Alys Foundationinc · Gulf Power Foundationinc · Emerald Coast Community Wellness Foundation · Impact 100 of Northwest Florida Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation Inc

How much does Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation Inc give?
Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation Inc reported 12 itemized grants totaling $2,484,000, out of $3,191,100 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 12 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (31%), Human Services (17%), Youth Development (13%).
Who are Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Emerald Coast Childrens Advocacy Center Inc ($1.7M), Emerald Coast Autism Center In ($1.4M), Children in Crisis Inc ($1.2M).
Does Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way Emerald Coast, The St Joe Community Foundation Inc, Dugas Family Foundation Inc.
Where is Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation Inc based?
Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation 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 21 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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