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Areawide Council on Aging of

Sunrise, FL · EIN 59-1529419. Reported 98 grants totalling $74.3M to 40 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

40organizations funded
$288,208median reported grant
$74.3Mgranted, 2021-2024
80%of grantees funded again the next year
46%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Areawide Council on Aging of, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P810) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 40 distinct organizations, with 46% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
  3. How much its list changes. 80% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $288,208. Half of what it reported fell between $177,339 and $424,586; the smallest was $11,655 and the largest $10.3M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$10,000 - $25,000
5 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
9 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
21 grants
$250,000 Or More
60 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Broward County Elderly & Veteran ServicesFort Lauderdale, FL$34.3M442024
Human Services Network IncPlantation, FL$8,219,061332023
Direct ServicesMiami, FL$2,933,980112023
Sterling Group FoodsincJacksoville, FL$2,391,504112024
City of Pembroke PinesPembroke Pines, FL$2,226,375442024
Broward County Minority Builders Coalition IncPlantation, FL$1,599,532442024
Northwest Federated Womans Club Senior Daycare & Alzheimers CenterFt Lauderdale, FL$1,460,652442024
Coast to Coast Legal Aid of South Florida IncPlantation, FL$1,420,254442024
City of Deerfield BeachDeerfield Beach, FL$1,323,179442024
Offerdahls Hand-Off Foundation IncFt Lauderdale, FL$1,304,520222024
Rebuilding Together Broward County IncFt Lauderdale, FL$1,246,130442024
City of Miramar Focal Point Senior CenterMiramar, FL$1,170,503222024
Northwest Focal PointMargate, FL$1,154,918332024
Miramar Satellite Senior CenterMiramar, FL$1,154,398222023
Sunshine Social Services IncLos Angeles, CA$1,086,724442024
Flipany IncFt Lauderdale, FL$1,070,635222024
United Home Care Services IncDoral, FL$1,054,604112024
Jewish Community Centers of South Broward IncDavie, FL$1,045,876442024
City of West ParkHollywood, FL$839,640442024
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami IncWilton Manors, FL$839,497442024
Daniel D Cantor Senior CenterSunrise, FL$780,105332023
City of Lauderdale LakesLauderdale Lakes, FL$745,214332024
City of HollywoodHollywood, FL$725,116442024
Sushi MakiSarasota, FL$665,630112024
Senior ProofPlantation, FL$511,119112023
City of Margate Focal Point Senior CenterMargate, FL$409,273112021
City of Hallandale BeachHallandale, FL$403,090442024
Easter Seals South Florida IncMiami, FL$350,030222024
Jewish Adoption and Foster Care Options IncSunrise, FL$334,102442024
Senior Centers IncToledo, OH$315,690112024
The Volen CenterBoca Raton, FL$301,600112024
It's Never Too Late LLCGreenwood Village, CO$287,844112023
Ponder & AssociatesPompano Beach, FL$251,726332024
Lauderdale Lakes Alzheimer's Care CenterLauderdale Lakes, FL$159,327112021
Tranquillity Alumni & Friends IncMonroe Twp, NJ$74,950112024
Best Life Care inHallandale Beach, FL$52,800112023
South Florida Institute on Aging IncFt Lauderdale, FL$36,664112021
Pickett FencesMoore Haven, FL$32,573222024
Sarah Moore Home IncDelaware, OH$22,649112024
Alzheimers & Dementia Resource Center IncWinter Park, FL$19,028112022

25 of 40 (62%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 23 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 16 of 40 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
7 orgs
Housing & Shelter
2 orgs
Health Care
2 orgs
Community Improvement
1 org
Crime & Legal
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Food & Nutrition
1 org
Youth Development
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202120$15.6M$226,494
202221$15.0M$256,361
202328$22.2M$320,035
202429$21.5M$315,690

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

98% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Florida
$72.5M
California
$1.1M
Ohio
$338K
Colorado
$288K
New Jersey
$75K

Down to the city

Fort Lauderdale, FL
$34.3M
Plantation, FL
$11.7M
Ft Lauderdale, FL
$5.1M
Miami, FL
$3.3M
Jacksoville, FL
$2.4M
Miramar, FL
$2.3M

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Community Foundation of Broward Inc11 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund8 shared recipientsUnited Jewish Community of Broward6 shared recipientsThe Miami Foundation Inc6 shared recipientsEarly Learning Coalition of Broward5 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc4 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $288,208 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Florida.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Areawide Council on Aging of's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 5300 Hiatus Road, Sunrise, FL, 33351.

EIN 59-1529419 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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