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BONITA SPRINGS ASSISTANCE OFFICE INC

BONITA SPRINGS ASSISTANCE OFFICE INC (Florida) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,281,618 to it, the largest being The United Way of Lee County Inc ($582,400). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$569k
Funders on record
30
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$1.3M
16/30 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 65%
01What it does

What Bonita Springs Assistance Office Inc does

Mission

To provide temporary assistance to residents of bonita springs who have been affected by an unexpected crisis. Our goal is to foster independence through education and by bridging the financial needs of the recipient.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. In february 2024, the bonita springs assistance office closed its doors and reopened in september 2024. Program services available in 2024 were the food pantry and short-term case management services. From september 2024 through december 2024, our food pantry served 4,329 individuals. Our case management program assisted 18 individuals by providing support assessments and an action plan for community members in crisis. Partnered with the bonita springs fire department, we hosted a toys for tots registration in november 2024, and registered over 930 children in bonita springs to receive holiday gifts. We purchased and established two software programs to manage our client services. Neighbor intake to track pantry participants and infoflo for case management and future financial assistance clients. Since returning in august, a major goal of bsao has been to reconnect with community partners and build those relationships. We achieved this in 2024 by: ?reestablishing as a united way partner agency. ?participation in bimonthly interagency launches hosted by cafe of life ?host networking lunches for various community partners to discuss collaboration of services. ?visit the bonita…

    $212,815 spentof which $3,373 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $212,815.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($583k) Expenses 100 ($353k) Net assets 100 ($663k)2018 Revenue 63 ($365k) Expenses 99 ($348k) Net assets 101 ($668k)2019 Revenue 61 ($354k) Expenses 98 ($345k) Net assets 107 ($711k)2020 Revenue 94 ($551k) Expenses 112 ($395k) Net assets 133 ($878k)2021 Revenue 125 ($729k) Expenses 207 ($730k) Net assets 137 ($910k)2022 Revenue 175 ($1.0M) Expenses 263 ($928k) Net assets 153 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 70 ($410k) Expenses 150 ($529k) Net assets 149 ($990k)2024 Revenue 98 ($569k) Expenses 95 ($336k) Net assets 196 ($1.3M)
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Revenue (98)Expenses (95)Net assets (196)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $995k to $1.4M (+38%).

$678k
$671k
$717k
$886k
$925k
$1.1M
$995k
$1.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$230k
’17
$17k
’18
$10k
’19
$155k
’20
−$850
’21
$91k
’22
−$119k
’23
$233k
’24
34
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Cindy Cedeno

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1010106881114
Joined·+4+4+2+5+0+4+3
No longer listed·4463010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $173k → $266k.

9 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of BONITA SPRINGS ASSISTANCE OFFICE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 29 of 30 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

BONITA SPRINGS ASSISTANCE OFFICE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

80% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BONITA SPRINGS ASSISTANCE OFFICE INC.

45%
largest funder
70%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 44% · 2019 57% · 2020 47% · 2021 57% · 2022 44% · 2023 41% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

53% of BONITA SPRINGS ASSISTANCE OFFICE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

96% of BONITA SPRINGS ASSISTANCE OFFICE INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.

ME
IL
WI
MI
NJ
CO
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
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’21
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’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $340k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

63% of spending goes to programs.

Program 63%Management 31%Fundraising 5%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds BONITA SPRINGS ASSISTANCE OFFICE INC?
BONITA SPRINGS ASSISTANCE OFFICE INC (Florida) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,281,618 to it, the largest being The United Way of Lee County Inc ($582,400). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BONITA SPRINGS ASSISTANCE OFFICE INC have?
IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,281,618 in grants to BONITA SPRINGS ASSISTANCE OFFICE INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BONITA SPRINGS ASSISTANCE OFFICE INC?
The United Way of Lee County Inc is the largest funder on record, with $582,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BONITA SPRINGS ASSISTANCE OFFICE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 30 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing