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LAKE WALES CARE CENTER INC

LAKE WALES CARE CENTER INC (Florida) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,458,664 to it, the largest being ENCOURAGE INC ($1,000,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.1M
Funders on record
30
Grants received
$4.5M
Net assets
$12M
22/30 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Lake Wales Care Center Inc does

Mission

Lake wales care center, inc. Is a faith based community service organization which demonstrates christ's love by building bridges between people in need and people with a desire to serve.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The lake wales care center is a social ministry organization with a variety of programs including meals on wheels, adult literacy, free health clinic, emergency and basic needs, home repair projects, transitional housing, pregnancy center, thrift store, and much more. The care center provides services to meet immediate needs and long term goals of self-sufficiency. The care center serves as a clearing house for mobilizing resources from local businesses, churches, clubs, and families.

    $3,177,581 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,177,581.

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 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($2.1M) Net assets 100 ($7.8M)2018 Revenue 138 ($2.3M) Expenses 98 ($2.1M) Net assets 95 ($7.4M)2019 Revenue 136 ($2.3M) Expenses 108 ($2.3M) Net assets 103 ($8.0M)2020 Revenue 233 ($3.9M) Expenses 150 ($3.2M) Net assets 116 ($9.1M)2021 Revenue 218 ($3.7M) Expenses 123 ($2.6M) Net assets 139 ($11M)2022 Revenue 180 ($3.0M) Expenses 147 ($3.1M) Net assets 126 ($9.8M)2023 Revenue 191 ($3.2M) Expenses 165 ($3.5M) Net assets 132 ($10M)2024 Revenue 185 ($3.1M) Expenses 172 ($3.6M) Net assets 148 ($12M)
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Revenue (185)Expenses (172)Net assets (148)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $10M to $12M (+17%).

$9.8M
$8.9M
$9.3M
$10M
$12M
$11M
$11M
$13M
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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: 2017 5% · 2018 9% · 2019 10% · 2020 34% · 2021 28% · 2022 16% · 2023 23% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$439k
’17
$236k
’18
−$4k
’19
$743k
’20
$1.1M
’21
−$98k
’22
−$282k
’23
−$539k
’24
2.7
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.

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Listed2527272425252525
Joined·+10+0+2+7+1+6+5
No longer listed·8056165
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $199k → $328k.

10 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 WALES CARE CENTER 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

LAKE WALES CARE CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

50% 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 LAKE WALES CARE CENTER INC.

22%
largest funder
58%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 48% · 2019 26% · 2020 24% · 2021 80% · 2022 38% · 2023 49% — 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

69% of LAKE WALES CARE CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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

73% of LAKE WALES CARE CENTER INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.

IL
WI
NJ
NC
FL

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $495k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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

Government funding LAKE WALES CARE CENTER INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9k on record.

State$9k
Top programs
  • REFUNDS - GENERAL $9k

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 LAKE WALES CARE CENTER 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

24
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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds LAKE WALES CARE CENTER INC?
LAKE WALES CARE CENTER INC (Florida) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,458,664 to it, the largest being ENCOURAGE INC ($1,000,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LAKE WALES CARE CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $4,458,664 in grants to LAKE WALES CARE CENTER INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LAKE WALES CARE CENTER INC?
ENCOURAGE INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAKE WALES CARE CENTER 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