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· 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.

$175k
Granted FY2017
13
Grants FY2017
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01FY2017 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $170,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $175,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,000 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.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $151k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$554k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Star of the Sea Outreach Miss$30,000
Marathon Recreation Center$25,000
Keys Area Interdenominational$15,000
Boys and Girls Club of Keys$15,000
Florida Keys Children Shelter$15,000
Florida Keys Healthy Start$11,000
Florida Keys Outreach$10,000
Independence Cay$10,000
Bahama Village Music Program$10,000
Wesley House Family Services$10,000
Monroe Association ReMARCable$7,000
Florida Keys Outreach Coal$6,000
Metropolitan Comm Church$6,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Wesley House Family Services: $10k → 13%Keys Area Interdenominational: $15k → 13%Independence Cay: $10k → 13%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 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
Kind Keys
Philanthropy
2
Florida Keys Community Land Trust I

Our mission is to make safe, affordable, dignified, and desirable housing available to low income residents within and throughout monroe county florida

Housing & Shelter
3
Key West Preschool Co-Operative Inc

Provide educational care to preschool aged children in the local community.

Education
4
The Key Clubhouse of South Florida Inc

None

Health
5
Key Peninsula Civic Center Association

Operate a community center for the benefit of the citizens of the key peninsula.

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6
Key West Community Sailing Center Inc

To teach the joy and skill of sailing through classes, clinics, and learning opportunities for everyone, beginners to advanced.

Recreation & Sports
7
Kids with Kindness Inc

Do acts of kindness for the community.

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8
Cornerstone Resource Alliance Inc

To serve and provide resources to the homeless population and provide resources to the impoverished.

Housing & Shelter
9
The Learning Center of Key West Inc

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…

Education
10
Voices for Florida Keys Children Inc

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…

Philanthropy
11
The Key Haven Families Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
12
Good Health Clinic Inc

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florida Keys Childrens Shelter Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KEYS AREA INTERDENOMINATIONAL RESOURCES INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesKEYS AREA INTERDENOMINATIONAL RESOURC…FLORIDA KEYS CHILDRENS SHELTER INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesFLORIDA KEYS CHILDRENS SHELTER INCINDEPENDENCE CAY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesINDEPENDENCE CAY INCWESLEY HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesWESLEY HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES INCMONROE ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesMONROE ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZ…STAR OF THE SEA FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · HealthSTAR OF THE SEA FOUNDATION …Florida Keys Healthy Start Coalition: $11,000 · HealthFlorida Keys Healthy Start …HEART OF THE KEYS RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsHEART OF THE KEY…FLORIDA KEYS OUTREACH COALITION INC: $16,000 · OtherFLORIDA KEYS O…Metropolitan Comm Church: $6,000 · OtherMetropolitan C…Boys & Girls Club of Keys Area Inc: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Gir…BAHAMA VILLAGE MUSIC PROGRAM INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$57,000Health$41,000Recreation & Sports$25,000Other$22,000Youth Development$15,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHEART OF THE KEYS RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetFLORIDA KEYS OUTREACH COALITION INC: $16,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKEYS AREA INTERDENOMINATIONAL RESOURCES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFLORIDA KEYS CHILDRENS SHELTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFlorida Keys Healthy Start Coalition: $11,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetINDEPENDENCE CAY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetWESLEY HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONROE ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

United Way of Collier…Community Foundation …Klaus Murphy FdnOcean Reef Community …The Batchelor Foundat…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way of Collier and the Keys IncFL24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 United Way of the Florida Keys Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of the Florida Keys Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
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How do I get to United Way of the Florida Keys Inc?

Find your warmest path to United Way of the Florida Keys 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 12 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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