· Public charity
The United Way of Lee County Inc
The United Way of Lee, Hendry, and Glades is a volunteer driven organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for all people in our community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 92 grants below total $9,143,696 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $21,725,979 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,582,283 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $920k
- $50k–250k40 grants · $4.7M
- $250k+10 grants · $3.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Abuse Counseling and Treatment (ACT) | $586,284 |
| Community Cooperative | $369,000 |
| Children's Advocacy Center of Southwest Florida | $364,600 |
| SalusCare | $363,392 |
| Salvation Army of Lee Hendry & Glades The | $351,300 |
| Lee County Legal Aid Society | $350,503 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Lee County | $277,927 |
| Healthy Start of Southwest Florida | $268,873 |
| LARC | $261,000 |
| The Sky Family YMCA FM and Bonita | $259,902 |
| Catholic Charities Foundation | $201,116 |
| Alvin A Dubin Alzheimer's Resource Center | $198,254 |
| IMPACT For Developmental Education | $198,009 |
| Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida | $197,845 |
| Literacy Council of the Gulf Coast | $185,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $19.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% 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 +42% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
119 repeat relationships — 87 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- CCCOMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +56%
- ACABUSE COUNSELING & TREATMENT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +50%
- SISALUSCARE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +7%
Funded once
- SHSAMARITAN HEALTH & WELLNESS CENTER INCone grant, 2023 · $260k · revenue -8%
- BTBETTER TOGETHER STRENGTHENING FAMILES INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +109%
COMMUNITY ASSISTED AND SUPPORTED LIVING INC2× · 2023–2024 · $175k · revenue +14%
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.
The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…
For 80 years, suncoast center, inc. has held true to its mission of "strengthening, protecting, and restoring lives for a healthy community" by providing a comprehensive range of evidence-based services that address emotional wellness,…
Our mission is "delivering care that changes people's lives"
The safe children coalition's mission is to protect children and youth, strengthen families, and build community.
The mission of the child protection center, inc. is the prevention, intervention and treatment of child abuse. we envision a community where children are safe from abuse and free to thrive. to successfully address the issue of child abuse,…
Families first of palm beach county, through innovative programs, promotes generational change by addressing families emotional, physical, and social well-being.
Our mission is a seamless, accessible, recovery-oriented system of behavioral health care driven by consumers, providers, and other stakeholders, in which innovation and collaboration are the norm and diversified financial resources…
To strengthen our communities by caring for families and individuals impacted by substance abuse and to promote mental well-being. operation par, inc. offers a full continuum of services at locations in pinellas, pasco, lee, manatee,…
To provide primary care and behavioral health services to children, adults, and families in south florida across a broad range of health services and community-based programs; and to oversee the coordinated child welfare system of care…
The lord's place, inc. (the lord's place or agency) is a non-sectarian organization dedicated to breaking the cycle of homelessness for men, women and children in our community. supportive services offered through our housing programs…
Lutheran social services of northeast florida, inc. (lss) was formed in 1979 by lutheran congregations located in northeast florida as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit social ministry organization. the agency is led by a board of directors…
To cultivate financial resources dedicated to building stronger families and stronger communities through the operations and programs of families first. contributing to the foundation is an investment in a safe, healthy and sustainable…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Cooperative Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chrysallis Wellness 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.
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 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
143 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. 143 of the 146 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 COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ABUSE COUNSELING & TREATMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SALUSCARE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds LARC INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC ↗
- Who funds LEE COUNTY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY START COALITION OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL GULF COAST INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds QUALITY LIFE CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT FOR DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SW FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ALVIN A DUBIN ALZHEIMER'S RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE OF SW FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Lehigh Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOSPICE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTERSTONE OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH CHARITIES OF SOUTH LEE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT DENTISTS CARE OF SOUTHWEST FL INC ↗
- Who funds DR PIPER CENTER FOR SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CLUBHOUSE OF SOUTHWEST FL INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds BONITA SPRINGS ASSISTANCE OFFICE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOUTH PINELLAS INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH PLANNING COUNCIL OF SW FL ↗
- Who funds NAMI LEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds VALERIE'S HOUSE 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: Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Collier Community Foundation Inc · The League Club Inc · Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc · Cape Coral Community Foundation · Fred & Jean Allegretti Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Carol B Phelon Foundation · Daniel R & Anne M Harper Foundation · Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc · Claibourne F Foulds Fdn Tr
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 The United Way of Lee County 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.
- Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc — 69% of income from government
- Dr Piper Center for Social Services Inc — 51% of income from government
- Redlands Christian Migrant Association Inc — 51% of income from government
- Martha's House Inc — 49% of income from government
- Lutheran Services Florida Inc — 19% of income from government
- 211 Palm BeachTreasure Coast Inc — 17% of income from government
- Family Health Centers of Southwest Florida Inc — 11% of income from government
- Community Assisted and Supported Living Inc — 7% of income from government
- Southwest Florida Council Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- Hibiscus Children's Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Mcgregor Clinic Inc — 2% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- Special Equestrians Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lee County Alliance for the Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lee County Housing Development Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Saluscare Inc — 0% of income from government
- Larc Inc — 0% of income from government
- Camelot Community Care Inc — 0% of income from government
- Valerie's House Inc — 0% of income from government
- Real Life Children's Ranch Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners for Breast Cancer Careinc — 0% of income from government
- Chrysallis Wellness 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.