Florida · Private foundation
Harry Debes Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $497k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $23,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Harry Debes Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $497k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $431k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $351k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $310k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $347k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $200k | 46% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $266k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $234k | 32% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Immokalee Foundation Inc | $447,105 | 9 | 2% |
| Gulfshore Playhouse Inc | $162,710 | 3 | 1% |
| Jingled Elves Inc | $78,000 | 6 | 13% |
| The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc | $28,575 | 6 | 0% |
| Path2freedom Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc | $15,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Alliance for Period Supplies of SWFL Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Avow Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Groundswell Community Project | $10,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Place of Hope Inc | $8,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Immokalee Foundation Inc | $447,105 | 9 | 2% |
| Gulfshore Playhouse Inc | $162,710 | 3 | 1% |
| Jingled Elves Inc | $78,000 | 6 | 13% |
| The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc | $28,575 | 6 | 0% |
| Path2freedom Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc | $15,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Alliance for Period Supplies of SWFL Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Avow Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Groundswell Community Project | $10,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Place of Hope Inc | $8,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Naples Take a Soldier Fishing Inc | $5,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Youth Haven Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pace Center for Girlsinc | $4,800 | 2 | 0% |
| Fisher House Foundation Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harry Debes Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Collier Community Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Harry Debes Family Foundation
- How much does Harry Debes Family Foundation give?
- Harry Debes Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $496,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Harry Debes Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Food & Nutrition (18%), Housing & Shelter (14%).
- Who are Harry Debes Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Immokalee Foundation Inc ($447k), Gulfshore Playhouse Inc ($163k), Jingled Elves Inc ($78k).
- Does Harry Debes Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harry Debes Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Harry Debes Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Collier Community Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Harry Debes Family Foundation based?
- Harry Debes Family Foundation is based in FL.
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