Florida · Nonprofit
Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc
Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc (Florida) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,956,905 to it, the largest being MANATEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($2,309,992). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $25M
- Funders on record
- 83
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc does
Mission
Easter Seals Southwest Florida creates solutions that change lives for children, adults, and families through high quality therapeutic, educational, and support services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Rehabilitation services - provides physical, occupational, and speech therapy to children and adults with disabilities. This therapy facilitates their ability to learn, care for themselves, and achieve independence at home, school, work, and in other community environments.
$7,701,595 spent$6,273,952 earned by the program52% of program spendingChildren's educational program - offers children who are both typically and differently abled an equal opportunity to learn in a creative atmosphere by providing high quality education and care that children need.
$4,205,486 spentof which $85,683 as grants$3,283,752 earned by the program28% of program spendingDay program and employment services - provides opportunities for social and vocational interaction in an environment that supports adults with disabilities. Also provides development of employment skills followed with job coaching to assure success in the workplace.
$2,875,593 spent$2,106,774 earned by the program19% of program spendingCommunity services - provides respite care to families of medically fragile, critically ill, developmentally disabled children, helping to stabilize the family. Provides assessment and training for any individual with a disability who needs to learn to access the public transportation systems.
$144,170 spent$53,057 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,926,844.
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 2023 to 2024, from $8.6M to $17M (+97%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 6% · 2018 5% · 2019 4% · 2020 4% · 2021 6% · 2023 1% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Tom Waters
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $199k → $2.3M.
17 of 83 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.9M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Easter Seals Southwest Florida Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 83 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
Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
46% 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 Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 27% · 2019 20% · 2020 36% · 2021 38% · 2022 25% · 2023 27% — 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
38% of Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
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
73% of Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.4M on record — $5.0M federal, $6.4M state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.0M
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.0M
- STATE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $6.3M
- FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $78k
- FEES - GENERAL - COMMODITIES $678
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $557
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Easter Seals Southwest FL Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc?
- Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc (Florida) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,956,905 to it, the largest being MANATEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($2,309,992). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc have?
- IRS filings report 83 organizations giving $12,956,905 in grants to Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc, 52 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc?
- MANATEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,309,992 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Easter Seals 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.
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 83 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