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COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ESTERO BAY INC

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ESTERO BAY INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,540 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SAN LUIS OBISPO ($41,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$66k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$42k
Net assets
$297k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Community Foundation of Estero Bay Inc does

Mission

To provide recreational scholarships to financially assist needy families.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provides recreational scholarships to financially assist families in need.These scholarships offset the cost for their childrens' participation in recreational activities.

    $65,898 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $65,898.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($66k) Expenses 100 ($44k) Net assets 100 ($109k)2018 Revenue 115 ($76k) Expenses 108 ($47k) Net assets 126 ($137k)2019 Revenue 138 ($91k) Expenses 136 ($59k) Net assets 155 ($169k)2020 Revenue 102 ($67k) Expenses 102 ($45k) Net assets 176 ($191k)2021 Revenue 59 ($39k) Expenses 57 ($25k) Net assets 188 ($205k)2022 Revenue 90 ($60k) Expenses 131 ($57k) Net assets 191 ($207k)2023 Revenue 194 ($128k) Expenses 173 ($76k) Net assets 239 ($260k)2024 Revenue 128 ($84k) Expenses 138 ($60k) Net assets 253 ($275k)2025 Revenue 100 ($66k) Expenses 165 ($72k) Net assets 273 ($297k)
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Revenue (100)Expenses (165)Net assets (273)Peer revenue range

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 $221k to $268k (+21%).

$115k
$145k
$190k
$191k
$220k
$221k
$268k
$275k
$297k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ESTERO BAY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,549 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$22k
’17
$28k
’18
$32k
’19
$22k
’20
$14k
’21
$2k
’22
$52k
’23
$24k
’24
−$6k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $12k.

Funder
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'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
2
1
2
2

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ESTERO BAY 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

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ESTERO BAY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ESTERO BAY INC.

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

100% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ESTERO BAY 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ESTERO BAY INC has grown faster than half of the 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−9% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

0%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ESTERO BAY INC?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ESTERO BAY INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,540 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SAN LUIS OBISPO ($41,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ESTERO BAY INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $41,540 in grants to COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ESTERO BAY INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ESTERO BAY INC?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SAN LUIS OBISPO is the largest funder on record, with $41,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ESTERO BAY INC find more funders?
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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