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SWFL CHILDREN'S CHARITIES INC SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WINE & FOOD FEST
SWFL CHILDREN'S CHARITIES INC SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WINE & FOOD FEST (Florida) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,572,109 to it, the largest being TOLER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($821,333). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Swfl Children's Charities Inc Southwest Florida Wine & Food Fest does
Mission
We provide support to organizations that provide services to children in southwest florida and education to local students majoring in health sciences at local colleges.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
We are placing kids first for the future of pediatric health care in our community. Our cash donations provide lifesaving care to children at golisano children's hospital by many compassionate and talented professionals educated at florida southwestern college.
$2,739,130 spentof which $2,602,123 as grants$3,346,715 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,739,130.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.0M to $1.4M (+33%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 2% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
108% of SWFL CHILDREN'S CHARITIES INC SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WINE & FOOD FEST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Heidi Davis
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $417k → $47k.
12 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 SWFL CHILDREN'S CHARITIES INC SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WINE & FOOD FEST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
SWFL CHILDREN'S CHARITIES INC SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WINE & FOOD FEST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
48% 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 SWFL CHILDREN'S CHARITIES INC SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WINE & FOOD FEST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 18% · 2019 71% · 2020 42% · 2021 32% · 2022 31% · 2023 79% — 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
29% of SWFL CHILDREN'S CHARITIES INC SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WINE & FOOD FEST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
88% of SWFL CHILDREN'S CHARITIES INC SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WINE & FOOD FEST's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
SWFL CHILDREN'S CHARITIES INC SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WINE & FOOD FEST's revenue fell 27% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SWFL CHILDREN'S CHARITIES INC SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WINE & FOOD FEST
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In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 SWFL CHILDREN'S CHARITIES INC SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WINE & FOOD FEST?
- SWFL CHILDREN'S CHARITIES INC SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WINE & FOOD FEST (Florida) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,572,109 to it, the largest being TOLER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($821,333). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SWFL CHILDREN'S CHARITIES INC SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WINE & FOOD FEST have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $3,572,109 in grants to SWFL CHILDREN'S CHARITIES INC SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WINE & FOOD FEST, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SWFL CHILDREN'S CHARITIES INC SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WINE & FOOD FEST?
- TOLER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $821,333 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SWFL CHILDREN'S CHARITIES INC SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WINE & FOOD FEST 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 32 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