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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
INTERFAITH CHARITIES OF SOUTH LEE (ICSL)$25,000
ST MATTHEW'S HOUSE$25,000
COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC$25,000
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK OF SW FLORIDA$25,000
CAFE OF LIFE$25,000
PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS$25,000
ALLIANCE FOR PERIOD SUPPLIES OF SW FLORIDA$25,000
YOUTH HAVEN INC$25,000
OUR MOTHER'S HOME OF SW FLORIDA INC$25,000
LACES OF LOVE CHARITIBLE FOUNDATIONS INC$25,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY CONFERENCE OUR LADY OF LIGHT CATHOLIC COMMUNITY$20,000
VALERIE'S HOUSE$20,000
FOSTERING SUCCESS$20,000
ANA'S FRIENDS INC$20,000
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.

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Its 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 its 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%INTERFAITH CHARITIES OF SOUTH SEE COUNTY: $7k → 11%Friends of Foster Children: $8k → 10%Interfaith Charter of S Lee Cty: $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%NEW HORIZONS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $10k → 11%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $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
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+41%
+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
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

  • 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 +41%

Funded once

  • MV
    Musicscores Violin Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -58%
  • FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +33%
  • NM
    Naples Music Club Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +59%
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
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
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
4
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
5
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
6
Central Florida Childrens Home

To provide homes for disadvantaged children.

Human Services
7
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
8
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
9
Family Resources Inc

We inspire well-being & success in the lives of vulnerable children, youth & families through responsive quality programs and safe places. part iii - additional information family counseling parents and youth ages 6-17 can receive…

Human Services
10
Suncoast Center Inc

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,…

Health
11
After the Rain of Southwest Florida

To provide housing for women recovering from substance abuse, homelessness and domestic violence. to provide and access supportive services for residents to become self-employed, self-sufficient, and capable of rebuilding family…

Human Services
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Care of Sw Florida Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 40 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
29/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ServicesWEST BAY COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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, 3.9% 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 budgetANA'S FRIENDS INC: $60,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $60,000 over 5y, 0.2% 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 budgetLITERACY COUNCIL GULF COAST INC: $45,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% 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 budgetWEST BAY COMMUNITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 budgetMusicscores Violin Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNaples Music Club Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFLORIDA REPERTORY COMPANY INC: $4,000 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.

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

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 West Bay Community Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from West Bay Community Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
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

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 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.

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