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CANDLELIGHTERS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC
CANDLELIGHTERS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,042 to it, the largest being SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($6,421). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $28k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $154k
What Candlelighters of Southwest Florida Inc does
Mission
The mission of candlelighters is to provide support, education, and assistance to families of children with cancer or blood disorders and the professionals who care for them.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Services provided by the organization include:happy notes - to honor a person on any occasion. Gift cards are mailed to the recipient to acknowledge a donation has been received. For example, birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, end of treatments, or other special times. Memorials - to recognize and remember a child or loved one who is deceased are available. Gift cards are mailed to a family to acknowledge a donation has been received in memory of their loved one. Parent meetings - are offered via zoom a couple times a year. We also offer a "new family zoom" informal session where we can introduce ourselves to families and better explain our program and gain an understanding of what type of help a family may need. Parent meetings help families to better understand their child's disease as well as realize they are not alone in the journey. Occasional speakers are secured to discuss topics of interest however most meetings focus on introducing parents to one another. Newsletters - newsletters are published on a quarterly basis to keep families in touch with activities and support available as well as upcoming activities and fundraisers. There is no charge to receive the…
$19,222 spent45% of program spendingFamily & teen activities:family activities - regularly scheduled activities including the entire family are organized throughout the year to help families deal with the feelings of isolation. Such activities may include baseball games, theatre tickets, skating, miniature golf, hayrides, picnic, holiday parties or a "fun trip" to a florida amusement park.
$19,930 spent47% of program spendingEmergency fund & death benefit:emergency funds - the emergency fund is available to all registered families to provide limited financial assistance. These may occur at the onset of diagnosis, during treatment, as result of a bone marrow transplant or due to the onset of the late term effects of radiation or chemotherapy. These funds are meant to help with the cost of utilities, groceries, transportation, rent, insurance, childcare, and other family situations occurring. Death benefit - funds are available at the time of a child's death to help the family with the many unplanned expenses incurred during this difficult time.
$3,375 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $42,527.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $199k to $175k (−12%).
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.
100% of CANDLELIGHTERS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Klair Snellbaker
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $100 → $789.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 CANDLELIGHTERS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
CANDLELIGHTERS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 CANDLELIGHTERS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 64% · 2022 55% · 2023 63% — 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.
Where its funders are
77% of CANDLELIGHTERS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
CANDLELIGHTERS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC's revenue fell 67% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,043 unclassified nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CANDLELIGHTERS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC?
- CANDLELIGHTERS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,042 to it, the largest being SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($6,421). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CANDLELIGHTERS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $10,042 in grants to CANDLELIGHTERS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CANDLELIGHTERS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC?
- SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,421 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CANDLELIGHTERS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA 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 6 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing