· Community foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 166 grants below total $5,194,549 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,318,465 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,123,916 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k47 grants · $329k
- $10k–50k95 grants · $1.9M
- $50k–250k21 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $900,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF LEE HENDRY GLADES AND OKEECHOBEE COUNTIES | $261,800 |
| FINEMARK NATIONAL BANK & TRUST | $260,185 |
| CALUSA NATURE CENTER & PLANETARIUM INC | $135,000 |
| ESTERO FOREVER FOUNDATION | $123,758 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LEE AND HENDRY COUNTIES INC | $109,468 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION | $103,150 |
| HOLY TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| HOPE CLUBHOUSE OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC | $90,632 |
| LEHIGH ACRES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $86,744 |
| FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $76,430 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF BONITA SPRINGS INC | $69,728 |
| TRAILWAYS CAMP | $65,500 |
| SCHOOL DISTRICT OF LEE COUNTY | $65,000 |
| CAPE CORAL ANIMAL SHELTER | $56,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $3.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
248 repeat relationships — 121 still active in FY2025, 127 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $844k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
The United Way of Lee County Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $6.7M · revenue +137%- HFHabitat for Humanity for Lee and Hendry Counties Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +68%
- HFHUMANE FORT WAYNE INC2× · 2019–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +137%
Funded once
- HAHEART AND MIND FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $800k · revenue -8% · 37% of their budget
- SSSWFLCF SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONone grant, 2017 · $570k
- FGFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $228k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Patterson Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
332 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 332 of the 474 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 The United Way of Lee County Inc ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity for Lee and Hendry Counties Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANE FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL REFUGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEART AND MIND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE CLUBHOUSE OF SOUTHWEST FL INC ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Lehigh Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds LEE COUNTY ALLIANCE FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SW FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds SEMINOLE BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOSPICE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds VALERIE'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR LEE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds Community Haven For Adults And Children With Disabilities Inc ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SERVICE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds The Legacy Foundation At Shell Point Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPE CORAL ANIMAL SHELTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BONITA BAY VETERANS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CALOOSA HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE HARBOR ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CLINIC FOR THE REHABILITATION OF WILDLIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Steve Rummler Hope Network ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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: The United Way of Lee County Inc · Collier Community Foundation Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Fred & Jean Allegretti Foundation · The League Club Inc · Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc · Cape Coral Community Foundation · John E & Aliese Price Foundation · Carol B Phelon Foundation · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Daniel R & Anne M Harper Foundation
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 Southwest Florida Community 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.
- Dr Piper Center for Social Services Inc — 51% of income from government
- Redlands Christian Migrant Association Inc — 51% of income from government
- Lutheran Services Florida Inc — 19% of income from government
- Collier Health Services Inc — 15% of income from government
- Family Health Centers of Southwest Florida Inc — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Southwest Florida Council Inc — 6% of income from government
- Florida Arts Inc — 4% of income from government
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation — 4% of income from government
- Regis College — 2% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- Florida Rural Legal Services Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lee County Alliance for the Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Legal Aid Service of Broward County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Protected Harbor Inc — 1% of income from government
- The United Way of Lee County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Saluscare Inc — 0% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- Larc Inc — 0% of income from government
- Paws Lee County Inc — 0% of income from government
- Imaginarium Group Inc — 0% of income from government
- Valerie's House Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center Inc — 0% 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.