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Wilsie Lucille Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$27k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$525kCivil Rights$436kReligion$306kHealth$77kPublic Benefit$34kHuman Services$27kArts & Culture$10kEducation$9kOther$0
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$154k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ISLAMORADA COMMUNITY ALLIANCE$25,000
BOB TEBOW EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION$2,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $2k) 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%FLORIDA KEYS CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $2k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 3 repeat orgs$184k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
12

Total granted

$1.2M
$184k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-26%
+46%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
PhilanthropyEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TT
    TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $525k · revenue +862%
  • IC
    Islamorada Community Alliance Inc
    4× · 2020–2023 · $436k · revenue -81% · 90% of their budget
  • BT
    BOB TEBOW EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2018–2023 · $281k · revenue -26%

Funded once

  • BH
    BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $60k
  • TA
    THE ANTI-FRAUD COALITIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $34k · revenue +46%
  • MB
    MARATHON BAPTIST CHURCH INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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
Florida Keys Fishing Guides

Dedicated to the conservation and preservation of the waters in and around south florida through wise fishery & watermanagement practices, while recognizing the importance of sport fishing to the local economy and the cultural heritage of…

Animals
2
Florida Keys Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc

Promoting the humane treatment of all animals through compassionate care, adoption, education, population control and humane law enforcement. Activities include: animal control, low cost spay & neuter and wellness clinic, adoption,…

Animals
3
Florida Keys Land & Sea Trust Inc

The florida keys land & sea trust was established to preserve the natural environment of the florida keys and to encourage and sponsor public participation and education

Environment
4
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
5
Florida Ocean Alliance Inc

Protect & enhance Florida's coastal & ocean resources

Science & Tech
6
Symbioseas

Marine research

Science & Tech
7
Florida Keys Healthy Start Coalition

We unite people and resources across the Florida Keys to ensure familiesdespite geographic and transportation barriershave access to coordinated care, maternal and mental health support, education, and services that promote healthy…

Health
8
Florida Keys Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center Inc

Rescue, rehabilitate, and release native and migratory wild birds harmed or displaced; provide or locate a humane shelter for those birds that cannot be released; and educate the public.

Animals
9
Florida Surveying and Mapping Society Scholarship Fund Inc
—
10
All About Florida Committee Inc

The mission is to gather, analyze and disseminate data and information relating to the government of Florida at the state, county and municipal levels and the issues which impact and affect their ability to govern, including, but not…

Civil Rights
11
The Florida Coalition for Preservation Inc
Environment
12
The Key West Harry S Truman Foundation Inc

To preserve Key Wests Little White House, Floridas only presidential museum, and programming that supports civic engagement, education, and the historic and cultural influences of the Truman era.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices for Florida Keys Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bob Tebow Evangelistic Association. 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

10 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. 10 of the 15 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC: $524,500 · PhilanthropyTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INCVOICES FOR FLORIDA KEYS CHILDREN INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyIslamorada Community Alliance Inc: $436,000 · Community ImprovementIslamorada Community Alliance IncBOB TEBOW EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION: $280,650 · OtherBOB TEBOW EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIA…BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION: $59,900 · OtherBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATIONMARATHON BAPTIST CHURCH INC: $25,000 · OtherMARATHON BAPTIST CHURCH INC+4 more: $23,000 · Other+4 moreTHE ANTI-FRAUD COALITION: $34,000 · EducationOCEAN STUDIES CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $7,500 · EducationGOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC: $5,000 · HealthAUTISM SOCIETY OF THE KEYS INC: $2,500 · HealthFLORIDA KEYS CHILDRENS SHELTER INC: $2,360 · Human Services
Philanthropy$549,500Community Improvement$436,000Other$388,550Education$41,500Health$7,500Human Services$2,360

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC: $524,500 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetIslamorada Community Alliance Inc: $436,000 over 4y, 90% of budgetBOB TEBOW EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION: $280,650 over 3y, 15% of budgetVOICES FOR FLORIDA KEYS CHILDREN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetOCEAN STUDIES CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF THE KEYS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetFLORIDA KEYS CHILDRENS SHELTER INC: $2,360 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA BAY FOREVER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 5.9% 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.

Ocean Reef Community …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Ocean Reef Community Foundation IncFL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ocean Reef Community Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Wilsie Lucille Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wilsie Lucille Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Florida Keys Childrens Shelter Inc: 22% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
1report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Wilsie Lucille Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wilsie Lucille 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 15 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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