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Lake Cares Inc

Lake Cares Inc (Florida) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,011,021 to it, the largest being W T BLAND JR CHARITABLE TUA ($1,060,944). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$4.2M
Funders on record
40
Grants received
$3.0M
Net assets
$6.3M
24/40 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Lake Cares Inc does

Mission

Lake Cares food panty in Mount Dora, FL has establshed itself as a strategic resource to support the needs of hungry families that have been hit by unforeseem and unfortunate circumstances.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Lake Cares Facts: Provided individuals over 1,3000,000 pounds of food; 21,149 hours volunteered; Operated as a service location for SNAP (food stamps) and the affordable care health insurance applications.

    $3,145,407 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,145,407.

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 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($964k)2018 Revenue 117 ($1.7M) Expenses 108 ($1.6M) Net assets 106 ($1.0M)2019 Revenue 127 ($1.8M) Expenses 127 ($1.9M) Net assets 98 ($946k)2020 Revenue 244 ($3.5M) Expenses 156 ($2.3M) Net assets 219 ($2.1M)2021 Revenue 175 ($2.5M) Expenses 164 ($2.5M) Net assets 225 ($2.2M)2022 Revenue 213 ($3.1M) Expenses 192 ($2.9M) Net assets 243 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 461 ($6.6M) Expenses 222 ($3.3M) Net assets 570 ($5.5M)2024 Revenue 293 ($4.2M) Expenses 228 ($3.4M) Net assets 652 ($6.3M)
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Revenue (293)Expenses (228)Net assets (652)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 $2.4M to $5.5M (+131%).

$1.0M
$1.1M
$1.0M
$2.2M
$2.2M
$2.4M
$5.5M
$8.2M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2020 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of Lake Cares Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,814 orgs

Surplus & reserves

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

−$64k
’17
$61k
’18
−$79k
’19
$1.2M
’20
$51k
’21
$180k
’22
$3.3M
’23
$787k
’24
3.7
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.

Chief executive

Kelsey Gonzalez

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1514151415151116
Joined·+2+4+0+6+8+2+5
No longer listed·3315860
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $78k → $495k.

5 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 Lake Cares Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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

Lake Cares Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

35%
largest funder
60%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 27% · 2019 33% · 2020 22% · 2021 22% · 2022 24% · 2023 45% — growing more concentrated.

“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

40% of Lake Cares Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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

80% of Lake Cares Inc's grant income comes from Florida funders.

IL
WI
PA
NJ
CO
MO
DE
NC
SC
TX
FL

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

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Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $265k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

Lake Cares Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · top quartile
Months of reserve3.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 5%Fundraising 3%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lake Cares 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 Lake Cares Inc?
Lake Cares Inc (Florida) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,011,021 to it, the largest being W T BLAND JR CHARITABLE TUA ($1,060,944). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Lake Cares Inc have?
IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $3,011,021 in grants to Lake Cares Inc, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Lake Cares Inc?
W T BLAND JR CHARITABLE TUA is the largest funder on record, with $1,060,944 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Lake Cares 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 40 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