· Public charity
United Way of the Florida Keys Inc
The mission of the United Way of the Florida Keys is to be the leader in community caring.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $170,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $175,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,000 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 · FY2017
- Under $10k3 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $151k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Star of the Sea Outreach Miss | $30,000 |
| Marathon Recreation Center | $25,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Keys | $15,000 |
| Florida Keys Children Shelter | $15,000 |
| Keys Area Interdenominational | $15,000 |
| Florida Keys Healthy Start | $11,000 |
| Wesley House Family Services | $10,000 |
| Independence Cay | $10,000 |
| Bahama Village Music Program | $10,000 |
| Florida Keys Outreach | $10,000 |
| Monroe Association ReMARCable | $7,000 |
| Florida Keys Outreach Coal | $6,000 |
| Metropolitan Comm Church | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Our mission is to make safe, affordable, dignified, and desirable housing available to low income residents within and throughout monroe county florida
Provide educational care to preschool aged children in the local community.
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Operate a community center for the benefit of the citizens of the key peninsula.
To teach the joy and skill of sailing through classes, clinics, and learning opportunities for everyone, beginners to advanced.
Do acts of kindness for the community.
To serve and provide resources to the homeless population and provide resources to the impoverished.
Provide daycare education of children ages one to four years, focusing on social, behavioral cognitive skills. Located in a multicultural neighborhood, these services facilitate real-income earning households with an engaging environment…
To provide financial assistance for medical, social, educational, advocacy, normalcy other personal needs or requests of and/or for abused, abandoned, neglected children those otherwise in financial, physical or emotional need in monroe…
To provide services, such as housing, food, clothing, counseling, etc., to minors of the orlando metro area who have been removed from their home primarily due to abuse/neglect.
The good health clinic serves as a primary healthcare home for low-income, uninsured residents of the florida keys; providing and coordinating free health services for those in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florida Keys Childrens Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bahama Village Music Program 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 STAR OF THE SEA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF THE KEYS RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA KEYS OUTREACH COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds KEYS AREA INTERDENOMINATIONAL RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA KEYS CHILDRENS SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Keys Area Inc ↗
- Who funds Florida Keys Healthy Start Coalition ↗
- Who funds WESLEY HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BAHAMA VILLAGE MUSIC PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE CAY INC ↗
- Who funds MONROE ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS 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: United Way of Collier and the Keys Inc · Community Foundation of the Florida Keys · Klaus Murphy Fdn · Ocean Reef Community Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 United Way of the Florida Keys 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.
- Florida Keys Childrens Shelter Inc — 19% of income from government
- Star of the Sea Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Monroe Association for Retarded Citizens Inc — 4% 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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