· Public charity
Pelican Sound Charitable Foundation Inc
To support charitable and educational programs of organizations that improve the lives of Southwest Florida residents in need.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Habitat for Humanity | $20,000 |
| New Horizons | $20,000 |
| Hearts and Homes for Veterans | $20,000 |
| ANA Friends | $17,500 |
| Interfaith Charities | $17,500 |
| American Heart Association | $15,000 |
| The Dubin Center | $15,000 |
| Laces of Love | $15,000 |
| Cafe of Life | $15,000 |
| Protected Harbor | $12,500 |
| Our Mothers Home | $12,500 |
| Lamb of God Church (Feeding the 5000 | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
Providing quality affordable housing for low and very-low income families.
Providing hope for the homeless and hurting through housing, case management, support services and strategic alliances.
To assist low income community members with finding affordable housing and learning skills to get a job.
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…
The mission of ability housing is to build flourishing communities where everyone has a home. its vision is a society where housing is a right, not a privilege; and all individuals have safe, affordable housing in vibrant communities. it…
Seeking to put god's love into action, beaches habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.
Space coast habitat for humanity believes that everyone deserves a decent place to live. we bring people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Construction and sale of decent, affordable housing to low-income families in nassau county, florida who are unable to afford conventional homes and mortgages.
Habitat for Humanity of Collier County, Inc. is part of a global, nonprofit housing Organization operated on Christian principles that seeks to put God's love into action by building homes, communities and hope.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Mother's Home of Southwest Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 12 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity for Lee and Hendry Counties Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTS & HOMES FOR VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH CHARITIES OF SOUTH LEE INC ↗
- Who funds ANA'S FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LACES OF LOVE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAFE OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds ALVIN A DUBIN ALZHEIMER'S RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROTECTED HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds OUR MOTHER'S HOME OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Shadow Wood Charitable Foundation Inc · The United Way of Lee County Inc · Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · Collier Community Foundation Inc · West Bay Community Charitable Foundation · Copperleaf Charitable Foundation Inc · Spring Run Charitable Foundation Inc · Daniel R & Anne M Harper Foundation · Dodson Foundation Inc · The League Club Inc · Fred & Jean Allegretti Foundation · Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc
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 Pelican Sound Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
- Protected Harbor Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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