Community Foundation of the Florida
Key West, FL · EIN 65-0648968. Reported 35 grants totalling $8,859,324 to 33 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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 Community Foundation of the Florida, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 33 distinct organizations, with 86% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is extreme concentration. A grantmaker sending three quarters of its money to one organization is in practice a support fund for that organization, whatever its classification says, and an unsolicited request is very unlikely to go anywhere.
- How much its list changes. 0% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $11,260. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $48,400; the smallest was $5,350 and the largest $2,906,073. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| See Attached Schedule 1 | $7,641,655 | 3 | 3 | 2024 | |
| The Studios of Key West Inc | Key West, FL | $403,788 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Miami-Dade Historical Maritime Museum Inc | Key West, FL | $210,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Monroe County Board of County Commissioners | Key West, FL | $147,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fringe Theater of Key West Inc | Key West, FL | $51,395 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Key West Botanical Garden Society Inc | Key West, FL | $50,541 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Metropolitan Community Church Key West | Key West, FL | $48,400 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sister Season Fund Inc | Key West, FL | $33,650 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Presbyterian Church USA a Corp | Louisville, KY | $24,167 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Star of the Sea Foundation Inc | Key West, FL | $23,350 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Peters Episcopal Church of Key West Florida Inc | Key West, FL | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Samuels House Inc | Key West, FL | $19,369 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Key West Literary Seminar Inc | Key West, FL | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Unity of the Keys Inc | Key West, FL | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Monroe Council of the Arts Corporation | Key West, FL | $12,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Florida Keys Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | Key West, FL | $11,260 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cornerstone Resource Alliance Inc | Big Pine Key, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Marathon, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Monroe County Long Term Recovery Group | Big Pine Key, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Marine Resources Development Foundation | Key Largo, FL | $9,825 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Florida Keys Area Health Education Center Program Inc | Marathon, FL | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Key West Art & Historical Society Inc | Key West, FL | $8,750 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Navy League of the United States National Headquarters | Key West, FL | $8,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Just Older Youth Inc | Tavernier, FL | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Leadership Monroe County Inc | Key West, FL | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Florida Keys Healthy Start Coalition Inc | Key West, FL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Literacy Volunteers of America Monroe County Inc | Key West, FL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Red Barn Actors Studio Inc | Key West, FL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Keys to Be the Change Inc | Key West, FL | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Protect Key West Inc | Key West, FL | $5,974 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Key West Impromptu Classical Concerts Inc | Key West, FL | $5,900 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Montessori Island Charter School Inc | Islamorada, FL | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Habitat for Humanity of Key West and Lower Florida Keys | Key West, FL | $5,350 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
1 of 33 (3%) 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.
- The Studios of Key West
Schools at the Studios, Residence Renovation Program, Bahama Village Community Quilts, Robert Aiosa Exhibit, Youth Education Programs, Robert Frost Poetry Contest, general operating support - Uscgc Ingham Memorial Museum
Boat repairs at dry dock. - Monroe County Board of County Commissioners
Support Monroe County public libraries - Fringe Theater Key West
general operating support (fund closure) - Sister Season Fund
Homeless prevention for those in the hospitality/tourism industry, general operating support - Presbyterian Church (usa) a Corporation
Returned Grant unused for Monroe County Long Term Recovery Group
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 21 of 33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 32 | $1,217,669 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 1 | $1,953,248 | $1,953,248 |
| 2023 | 1 | $2,782,334 | $2,782,334 |
| 2024 | 1 | $2,906,073 | $2,906,073 |
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
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.
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 $11,260 -- 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 Community Foundation of the Florida'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: 300 Southard St Suite 201, Key West, FL, 33040.
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