Skip to content
The Foundation of the Rotary Club of Bonita Springs Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

The Foundation of the Rotary Club of Bonita Springs Inc

Community service and support

$116k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Public Safety & Disaster$56kHealth$48kInternational$22kEnvironment$21kHousing & Shelter$20kEducation$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $11,130, the rows itemized in this filing. The $116,490 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $105,360 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$5,680
Median grant
2
States reached
$736k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WHEELCHAIR FOUNDATION$5,680
GIFT OF LIFE$5,450
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE WHEELCHAIR FOUNDATION: $16k → 9%MEALS OF HOPE: $12k → 10%FRIEND'S OF LOVER'S KEY: $11k → 11%GIFT OF LIFE: $5k → 11%ROTARY FOUNDATION - NATIONAL: $15k → 14%THE WHEELCHAIR FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%GARGIULO EDUCATION CENTER: $6k → 10%FRIEND'S OF LOVER'S KEY: $10k → 11%ROTARY FOUNDATION - NATIONAL: $7k → 14%THE WHEELCHAIR FOUNDATION: $6k → 9%BONITA SPRINGS ASSISTANCE OFFICE: $10k → 11%YMCA: $8k → 11%LITERACY COUNCIL GULF COAST: $6k → 11%HARRY CHOPIN FOOD BANK: $10k → 11%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$92k · 4 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +130% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$92k
$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+130%
+11%

Still filing today

50%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
Food & NutritionEnvironmentHousing & ShelterEducationHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BG
    BEHRING GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2025 · $32k · revenue +176%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF LOVERS KEY INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $21k · revenue +4%
  • CO
    CAFE OF LIFE INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +130%

Funded once

  • MO
    MEALS OF HOPE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +68%
  • TW
    THE WHEELCHAIR FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $11k
  • BS
    BONITA SPRINGS ASSISTANCE OFFICE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -22%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Meals On Wheels of the Palm Beaches Inc

Meals on wheels of the palm beaches mission is to nourish and enrich the lives of homebound seniors by delivering fresh food daily with compassion and love.

Food & Nutrition
2
Empty Bowls of Naples Inc

The "Empty Bowls Project" is an international grassroots effort to raise both money and awareness in the fight to end hunger. The mission is to creat positive and lasting change through the arts, education and projects that build the…

Public Benefit
3
Feeding South Florida Inc

Feeding south florida's mission is to end hunger in south florida by providing immediate access to nutritious food, leading hunger and poverty advocacy efforts, and transforming lives through innovative programming and education.

Food & Nutrition
4
Meals On Wheels Plus of Manatee Inc

The mission of meals on wheels plus of manatee, inc. is to assist individuals to live independently by providing nutrition and caring supportive services.

Food & Nutrition
5
Literacy Alliance of Northeast Florida Inc

The literacy alliance of northeast florida's mission is to improve the self-sufficients, economic mobility, and quality of life for adults through increasing skills and education levels with formal instruction and volunteer-based tutoring.

—
6
Florida Food Force Inc

To fight hunger through united forces/partnerships; provide nutritional food products that will nurture, sustain and enhance quality of life; facility, contribute and promote programs for hunger relief, strengthening our communities.

Food & Nutrition
7
Hope Helps Inc

To prevent and reduce hunger and homelessness in central florida by equipping individuals and families to become self-sufficient through housing, outreach, prevention, and education.

Human Services
8
All Faiths Food Bank Inc

Together with our partners, we provide healthy solutions to end hunger in our community.

Food & Nutrition
9
Floridas Love in Action
Human Services
10
Disability Solutions for Independent Living Inc

Part iii, line 1 to empower people with disabilities to attain equal opportunities in society by providing training, education, advocacy, and resources needed to live independently.

Human Services
11
Boca Helping Hands Inc

Provide food, medical and financial assistance to meet basic human needs as well as education, job training and guidance to create self-sufficiency.

Food & Nutrition
12
Beach Food Pantry Inc

Beach food pantry distributes food and personal hygiene supplies to those in need in dare county, north carolina.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bonita Springs Assistance Office Inc; the most unlike its peers is North Naples Education Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 14 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEHRING GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $31,680 · OtherBEHRING GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE WHEELCHAIR FOUNDATION: $10,500 · OtherTHE WHEELCHAIR FOUNDATIONBONITA SPRINGS ASSISTANCE OFFICE INC: $10,000 · OtherBONITA SPRINGS ASSISTANCE OFFICE INCSALVATION ARMY: $10,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYYMCA: $8,000 · OtherYMCALITERACY COUNCIL GULF COAST INC: $6,000 · OtherLITERACY COUNCIL GULF COAST INCMEALS OF HOPE INC: $12,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS OF HOPE…HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionHARRY CHAPIN …THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $21,500 · InternationalTHE ROTARY F…FRIENDS OF LOVERS KEY INC: $20,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF L…CAFE OF LIFE INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterCAFE OF LIF…NORTH NAPLES EDUCATION CENTER INC: $6,000 · EducationGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC: $5,450 · Health
Other$96,180Food & Nutrition$22,000International$21,500Environment$20,500Housing & Shelter$20,000Education$6,000Health$5,450

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBEHRING GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $31,680 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $21,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF LOVERS KEY INC: $20,500 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetCAFE OF LIFE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMEALS OF HOPE INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBONITA SPRINGS ASSISTANCE OFFICE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH NAPLES EDUCATION CENTER INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL GULF COAST INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

The United Way of Lee…Collier Community Fou…The Richard M Schulze…Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The United Way of Lee County IncFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover 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 · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Foundation of the Rotary Club of Bonita Springs Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Foundation of the Rotary Club of Bonita Springs Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • North Naples Education Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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 · 0–10%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Foundation of the Rotary Club of Bonita Springs Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Foundation of the Rotary Club of Bonita Springs 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.

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 14 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Foundation of the Rotary Club of Bonita Springs’ filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home