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Shadow Wood Charitable Foundation Inc

Shadow wood charitable foundation, inc. Is committed to supporting charitable programs that improve the lives of southwest florida residents in need. The foundation raises funds and distributes them to section 501 (c)(3) charities that serve those residents through social service programs. It also has scholarship award and emergency…

$1.8M
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2026
17
Organizations funded FY2025
12%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$55,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$390,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 17
FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
2
Total assets, FY2026
$348k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 12% of the organizations Shadow Wood Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPublic BenefitHuman ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionEducationOther
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
FY2026still arriving18$1.7M0%
FY202517$1.8M12%
FY202414$1.3M14%
FY202314$1.4M0%
FY202217$1.1M24%
FY202112$834k25%
FY202010$768k0%
FY201910$520k20%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$3.6MHuman Services$1.9MEducation$1.7MCrime & Legal$671kPhilanthropy$520kHealth$514kReligion$101kFood & Nutrition$93k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Habitat for Humanity for Lee and Hendry Counties Inc$2,873,453101%
New Horizons of Southwest Florida Inc$1,174,270107%
Interfaith Charities of South Lee Inc$936,738105%
Ana's Friends Inc$889,000820%
Hearts & Homes for Veterans Inc$778,230810%
Valerie's House Inc$602,80054%
The Salvation Army$601,35010n/a
Cafe of Life Inc$497,500107%
Literacy Council Gulf Coast Inc$398,2561013%
Florida Lions Eye Clinc Inc$247,00056%
Show all 22 grantees
All grantees of Shadow Wood Charitable Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Habitat for Humanity for Lee and Hendry Counties Inc$2,873,453101%
New Horizons of Southwest Florida Inc$1,174,270107%
Interfaith Charities of South Lee Inc$936,738105%
Ana's Friends Inc$889,000820%
Hearts & Homes for Veterans Inc$778,230810%
Valerie's House Inc$602,80054%
The Salvation Army$601,35010n/a
Cafe of Life Inc$497,500107%
Literacy Council Gulf Coast Inc$398,2561013%
Florida Lions Eye Clinc Inc$247,00056%
The Foundation for Lee County Public Schools Inc$234,61953%
Bonita Springs Assistance Office Inc$198,800711%
Alliance for Period Supplies of SWFL Inc$188,000518%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$136,5003n/a
Lamb of God Lutheran Church$130,70010n/a
Lee Memorial Health System Foundation Inc$125,00030%
Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc$68,37420%
Pathways Early Education Center of Immokalee Inc$60,00021%
Laces of Love Charitable Foundation$30,00022%
St Matthews House Inc$18,37520%
Lee Memorial Heath System Fnd$15,0001n/a
Meals on Wheels of Bonita Springs Inc$10,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shadow Wood Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHabitat for Humanity for Lee and Hendry Counties Inc: $2,873,453 over 10y, 1.4% of budgetNew Horizons of Southwest Florida Inc: $1,174,270 over 10y, 6.6% of budgetInterfaith Charities of South Lee Inc: $936,738 over 10y, 5.2% of budgetAna's Friends Inc: $889,000 over 8y, 20% of budgetHearts & Homes for Veterans Inc: $778,230 over 8y, 9.5% of budgetValerie's House Inc: $602,800 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetCafe of Life Inc: $497,500 over 10y, 7.2% of budgetLiteracy Council Gulf Coast Inc: $398,256 over 10y, 13% of budgetFlorida Lions Eye Clinc Inc: $247,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetThe Foundation for Lee County Public Schools Inc: $234,619 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetBonita Springs Assistance Office Inc: $198,800 over 7y, 11% of budgetAlliance for Period Supplies of SWFL Inc: $188,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetLee Memorial Health System Foundation Inc: $125,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHarry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc: $68,374 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPathways Early Education Center of Immokalee Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLaces of Love Charitable Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSt Matthews House Inc: $18,375 over 2y, 0.1% 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 17.

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.

The United Way of Lee County IncFL24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The United Way of Lee County Inc · Collier Community Foundation Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Pelican Sound Charitable Foundation Inc · West Bay Community Charitable Foundation · Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · Dodson Foundation Inc · Copperleaf Charitable Foundation Inc · Spring Run Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Collier and the Keys Inc · Carol B Phelon Foundation · The League Club Inc

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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How do I get to Shadow Wood Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Shadow Wood Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Shadow Wood Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Shadow Wood Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Shadow Wood Charitable Foundation Inc reported 19 grants totaling $1,750,150 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does Shadow Wood Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (39%), Human Services (21%), Education (19%).
Who are Shadow Wood Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Habitat for Humanity for Lee and Hendry Counties Inc ($2.9M), New Horizons of Southwest Florida Inc ($1.2M), Interfaith Charities of South Lee Inc ($937k).
Does Shadow Wood Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Shadow Wood Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The United Way of Lee County Inc, Collier Community Foundation Inc, The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation.
Where is Shadow Wood Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Shadow Wood Charitable 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 24 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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