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West Bay Community Charitable Foundation

We give and make grants to a limited number of 501(c) 3 organizations in lee and collier counties in the following of need areas: (continued on schedule o) organizations that provide human services for at-risk women, children and the elderly, organizations that serve people who need food, shelter and/or medical services, and/or…

$392k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Human Services$646kEducation$208kFood & Nutrition$184kHealth$116kHousing & Shelter$66kArts & Culture$43kYouth Development$39kAnimals$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $380k
$25,000
Median grant
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States reached
$89k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PATHWAYS EARLY EDUCATION CENTER OF IMMOKALEE$30,000
ALLIANCE FOR PERIOD SUPPLIES OF SW FLORIDA$25,000
INTERFAITH CHARITIES OF SOUTH LEE (ICSL)$25,000
ST MATTHEW'S HOUSE$25,000
OUR MOTHER'S HOME OF SW FLORIDA INC$25,000
COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC$25,000
YOUTH HAVEN INC$25,000
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK OF SW FLORIDA$25,000
LACES OF LOVE CHARITIBLE FOUNDATIONS INC$25,000
PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS$25,000
CAFE OF LIFE$25,000
FOSTERING SUCCESS$20,000
ANA'S FRIENDS INC$20,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY CONFERENCE OUR LADY OF LIGHT CATHOLIC COMMUNITY$20,000
LITERACY COUNCIL GULF COAST$20,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $259k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Friends of Foster Children: $11k → 10%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $13k → 11%Friends of Foster Children: $8k → 10%Friends of Foster Children: $8k → 10%Interfaith Charter of S Lee Cty: $7k → 11%INTERFAITH CHARITIES OF SOUTH SEE COUNTY: $7k → 11%FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOREVER: $8k → 10%St Vincent DePaul: $10k → 11%Interfaith Charities of South Lee: $17k → 11%New Horizons: $9k → 10%New Horizons: $9k → 10%Interfaith Charities of S Lee: $12k → 11%COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE MOW: $10k → 11%Child Care of SWFL: $10k → 11%Valeries House: $10k → 10%Valeries House: $5k → 10%Community Cooperative-Meals on Wheels: $10k → 11%CHILD CARE OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $5k → 11%Youth Haven: $12k → 10%Youth Haven: $10k → 10%Youth Haven: $10k → 10%St Vincent DePaul: $20k → 11%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $10k → 11%NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $10k → 11%New Horizons: $5k → 11%Blessings in a Backpack: $5k → 11%St Vincent DePaul: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 32 repeat orgs$86k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
5

Total granted

$1.3M
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+59%

Still filing today

84%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • AF
    Alliance for Period Supplies of SWFL Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $71k · revenue +321%
  • IC
    INTERFAITH CHARITIES OF SOUTH LEE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $68k · revenue +33%
  • LO
    LACES OF LOVE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $68k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +33%
  • MV
    Musicscores Violin Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -58%
  • NM
    Naples Music Club Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +59%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Safe Children Coalition Inc

The safe children coalition's mission is to protect children and youth, strengthen families, and build community.

Human Services
2
The Florida Center for Early Childhood Inc

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…

Human Services
3
Volusiaflagler County Coalition for the Homeless Inc

Charitable or educational purposes related to services for persons experiencing homelessness and persons at risk of homelessness in the service area. in pursuance of the foregoing purposes, vfcch shall facilitate and coordinate the…

Human Services
4
Florida Alliance of Children's Councils & Trusts Inc

To promote policies that build effective primary prevention and early intervention systems of support for florida's children and families by engaging and enhancing the collective strengths of the individual children's services councils of…

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5
Central Florida Childrens Home

To provide homes for disadvantaged children.

Human Services
6
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
7
Children's Advocacy Center of Southwest Florida Inc

Since 1981, children's advocacy center of southwest florida, inc. (cac) has advocated for a healthy, safe community for children through a multidisciplinary team approach to child abuse and neglect. our mission is to create a safe and…

Human Services
8
Child Protection Center Inc

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,…

Crime & Legal
9
Quality Life Center of Southwest Florida Inc

To strenghten and instill pride in family and community through the development of programs and institutions that cultivate self-development, teach self-disipline, build confidence and promote cutural awareness.

Community Improvement
10
Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services Inc

Inspired by jewish values, we protect the vulnerable, empower individuals and strengthen families. (continued on schedule o)

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11
Central Florida Commission On Homelessness Inc

The corporation is organized for the purpose of permanently reducing the number of homeless individuals and families in the central florida region.

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12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Cooperative Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fostering Success. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%7%<5yr15%10%5–10yr22%10%10–20yr18%43%20–35yr10%13%35–55yr11%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%2%<5yr15%14%5–10yr22%10%10–20yr18%41%20–35yr10%17%35–55yr11%17%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/40
the rest of the field
13%
640/4,866

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.

04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 40 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
29/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

INTERFAITH CHARITIES OF SOUTH LEE INC — $68,000 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH CHARITIES OF SOUTH LEE INCBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INCYOUTH HAVEN INC — $57,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH HAVEN INCSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DISTRICT COUNCIL OF — $53,000 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DISTRICT COUN…VALERIE'S HOUSE INC — $47,500 · Human ServicesVALERIE'S HOUSE INCCOMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INCNEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesNEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INCCHILD CARE OF SW FLORIDA INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesCHILD CARE OF SW FLORIDA INCFRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOREVER INC DBA FOSTERING SUCCESS INC — $34,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOREVER INC DBA …OUR MOTHER'S HOME OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERING SUCCESS — $20,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesWEST BAY COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Human ServicesPathways Early Education Center of Immokalee Inc — $66,000 · OtherPathways Early Education Cen…ANA'S FRIENDS INC — $60,000 · OtherANA'S FRIENDS INCLITERACY COUNCIL GULF COAST INC — $45,000 · OtherLITERACY COUNCIL GULF COAST …Our Mothers Home — $36,000 · OtherOur Mothers HomeChristys Cause — $27,000 · OtherChristys CauseYoung Parent Education Prog — $26,900 · OtherYoung Parent Education ProgTEMPLE SHALOM INC — $23,000 · OtherTEMPLE SHALOM INCHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $21,000 · OtherHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SO…THE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 · OtherGULF COAST HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $12,000 · Other+3 more — $16,000 · OtherAlliance for Period Supplies of SWFL Inc — $71,000 · HealthAlliance for P…ABUSE COUNSELING & TREATMENT INC — $44,007 · HealthABUSE COUNSELI…Life Choice Crisis Pregnancy Center Inc — $37,500 · HealthLife Choice Cr…MY AUTISM CONNECTION INC — $25,700 · HealthMY AUTISM CONN…ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC — $67,000 · Housing & ShelterST MATTHEW…CAFE OF LIFE INC — $59,000 · Housing & ShelterCAFE OF LI…LACES OF LOVE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $67,500 · EducationSOUTHWEST CHARTER FOUNDATION INC — $11,400 · EducationFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · EducationPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC — $51,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR THE ARTS OF BONITA SPRINGS INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureMusicscores Violin Inc — $5,000 · Arts & CultureFLORIDA REPERTORY COMPANY INC — $4,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$524,500Other$345,900Health$178,207Housing & Shelter$126,000Education$83,900Youth Development$51,000Arts & Culture$44,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAlliance for Period Supplies of SWFL Inc — $71,000 over 5y, 10.0% of budgetINTERFAITH CHARITIES OF SOUTH LEE INC — $68,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetLACES OF LOVE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $67,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC — $67,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPathways Early Education Center of Immokalee Inc — $66,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $60,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetANA'S FRIENDS INC — $60,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCAFE OF LIFE INC — $59,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetYOUTH HAVEN INC — $57,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DISTRICT COUNCIL OF — $53,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC — $51,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVALERIE'S HOUSE INC — $47,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL GULF COAST INC — $45,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetABUSE COUNSELING & TREATMENT INC — $44,007 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $40,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLife Choice Crisis Pregnancy Center Inc — $37,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCHILD CARE OF SW FLORIDA INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOREVER INC DBA FOSTERING SUCCESS INC — $34,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMY AUTISM CONNECTION INC — $25,700 over 4y, 16% of budgetTHE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $25,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTERING SUCCESS — $20,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWEST BAY COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetTHE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGULF COAST HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST CHARTER FOUNDATION INC — $11,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR THE ARTS OF BONITA SPRINGS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMusicscores Violin Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetNaples Music Club Inc — $4,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFLORIDA REPERTORY COMPANY INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Collier Community Fou…The Richard M Schulze…The League Club IncThe United Way of Lee…Southwest Florida Com…Copperleaf Charitable…Shadow Wood Charitabl…Suncoast Credit Union…Pelican Sound Charita…Spring Run Charitable…The Ammerman Foundati…Smith Family Foundati…
Collier Community Foundation IncFL37.2× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Collier Community Foundation Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The League Club Inc · The United Way of Lee County Inc · Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · Copperleaf Charitable Foundation Inc · Shadow Wood Charitable Foundation Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Pelican Sound Charitable Foundation Inc · Spring Run Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ammerman Foundation · Smith Family 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 West Bay Community Charitable Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
  • My Autism Connection Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Valerie's House Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Youth Haven Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to West Bay Community Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to West Bay Community Charitable Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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