Boca West Community Charitable
Boca Raton, FL · EIN 27-3840788. Reported 129 grants totalling $5,626,877 to 49 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Boca West Community Charitable, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for human services (NTEE P12).
- How spread out its giving is. 49 distinct organizations, with 8% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 88% 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 $31,100. Half of what it reported fell between $19,750 and $58,900; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $131,650. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
33 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $980,163 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sweet Dream Makers Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $455,261 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Place of Hope Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $368,450 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Florence Fuller Child Development Centers Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $344,306 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Caridad Center Inc | Boynton Beach, FL | $337,250 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Boca Helping Hands Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $323,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Sos Childrens Villages Florida Inc | Coconut Creek, FL | $294,150 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Jafco Childrens Ability Center Inc | Sunrise, FL | $292,200 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County Inc | West Palm Beach, FL | $257,282 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Rotary Club of Boca Raton Sunrise Foundation Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $210,150 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Kelly-Strul Foundation | Boca Raton, FL | $196,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Roots and Wings Inc | Delray Beach, FL | $187,910 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $146,550 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Adolph and Rose Levis Jewish Community Center Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $144,550 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Eda and Cliff Viner Community Scholars Foundation Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $141,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Education Foundation of Palm Beach County Inc | Lk Worth Bch, FL | $131,150 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Diaper Bank | Boca Raton, FL | $129,120 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| American Association of Caregiving Youth Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $118,450 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Bound for College Inc | Delray Beach, FL | $112,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Nat King Cole Generation Hope Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $108,850 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Spirit of Giving Network Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $108,750 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Jafco Jewish Adoption and Family Care Options Inc | Sunrise, FL | $95,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of South Palm Beach County Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $91,784 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Childrens Place at Home Safe Inc | Lake Worth, FL | $90,900 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Elizabeth H Faulk Foundation Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $78,050 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Unicorn Children's Foundation | Boca Raton, FL | $76,300 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Best Foot Forward | Boca Raton, FL | $74,150 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| College for Kids Inc | West Palm Beach, FL | $69,550 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Joe Dimaggio Childrens Hospital Foundation Inc | Hollywood, FL | $65,300 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Kidsafe Foundation | Boca Raton, FL | $61,650 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of the Palm Beaches Inc | Lake Worth, FL | $58,932 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Propel Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $57,692 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Center for Youth Activities Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $57,400 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Summer Camp Opportunities Promote Education Inc | New York, NY | $46,200 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Center for Child Counseling Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $42,800 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Living Hungry Inc | Delray Beach, FL | $40,700 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Junior League | Boca Raton, FL | $32,400 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Best Foot Forward Foundation Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $29,900 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Rotary Club Downtown Boca Raton Fund | Boca Raton, FL | $22,300 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Boca Raton Police Athletic League Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $18,700 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Supplies for Success Inc | New York, NY | $17,140 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cellus Foundation Inc | Scotch Plains, NJ | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Homesafe | Lake Worth, FL | $14,200 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Sos Childrens Village USA Inc | Washington, DC | $12,300 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Center for Family Services Inc | Voorhees, NJ | $10,300 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Connections Education Center of the Palm Beaches Inc | West Palm Beach, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boca School for Autism | Boca Raton, FL | $9,900 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $8,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boca Raton Museum of Art Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Love Serving Autism Inc | N Palm Beach, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
38 of 49 (78%) 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.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Place of Hope
GENERAL ASSISTANCE TO THE ORGANIZATION
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 37 of 49 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 25 | $903,096 | $22,200 |
| 2021 | 33 | $1,675,726 | $33,700 |
| 2022 | 33 | $1,514,867 | $31,300 |
| 2023 | 38 | $1,533,188 | $29,950 |
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.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $31,100 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Florida.
- 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 Boca West Community Charitable's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 20583 Boca West Drive, Boca Raton, FL, 33434.
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