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Korest Foundation

Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$68k
Granted FY2017
15
Grants FY2017
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k12 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NAPLES MUSIC CLUB$10,000
CHAMPIONS FOR LEARNING$10,000
FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY$10,000
BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE$8,750
FUN TIME EARLY CHILDHOOD ACAD$6,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COU$5,799
EVERGLADES FOUNDATION$5,510
RICHARD TUCKER MUSIC FOUNDATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
MOORINGS PARK FOUNDATION$1,269
SAINT THOMAS CHURCH$1,000
EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER CTY$700
NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDENS$500
SAFER$500
COLLIER 100 CLUB$200
02The need
02

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 (FY17–17, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MOORINGS PARK FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%FUN TIME EARLY CHILDHOOD ACAD: $6k → 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 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
Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc

To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…

Education
2
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
3
Naples Zoo Inc

Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…

Animals
4
Florida Keys Educational Foundation Inc

To provide financial and other essential support to further the mission and goals of the college of the florida keys (cfk).

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5
The Florida Aquarium Inc

The Florida Aquarium's mission focuses on our Shared Purpose of a commitment to save marine wildlife, with a Vision to be Florida's leading conservation-based Aquarium. It accomplishes this mission through hosting over 1 million visitors…

Animals
6
National Tropical Botanical Garden

To enrich life by perpetuating tropical plants, ecosystems and cultural heritage through discovery, scientific research, conservation, and education.

Environment
7
The Florida State University Foundation Inc

The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management. the fsu foundation accomplishes its mission by fostering…

Education
8
Florida Education Fund Inc

To strengthen the larger community by developing and implementing programs and services that lead to institutional enhancement and greater educational advancement.

Education
9
Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc

See schedule ocollaboratory is a community foundation with an evolved mission committed to coordinating the solving of southwest florida's major social problems by 2040. since our founding in 1976, we have been supporting local causes and…

Philanthropy
10
Education Foundation of Palm Beach County Inc

The foundation is the nexus of palm beach county's public schools, the private sector, and the community. it facilitates student achievement by supporting high quality public education through partnership, grants, events and public…

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11
Tampa Bay Partnership Inc

The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.

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12
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Botanical Garden Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Everglades Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Naples Music Club Inc: $10,000 · OtherNaples Music Club IncCHAMPIONS FOR LEARNING: $10,000 · OtherCHAMPIONS FOR LEARNINGFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITYBASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE: $8,750 · OtherBASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTECOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,799 · OtherCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · Other+3 more: $1,700 · OtherFun Time Early Childhood Academy Inc: $6,000 · Human ServicesFun Time Ear…MOORINGS PARK FOUNDATION INC: $1,269 · Human ServicesMOORINGS PAR…THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $5,510 · EnvironmentTHE EVERGL…NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $500 · EnvironmentNAPLES BOT…RICHARD TUCKER MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC: $700 · Philanthropy
Other$48,749Human Services$7,269Environment$6,010Arts & Culture$5,000Philanthropy$700

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFun Time Early Childhood Academy Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,799 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $5,510 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOORINGS PARK FOUNDATION INC: $1,269 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Collier Community Foundation IncFL13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Collier Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Naples Botanical Garden Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 15 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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