The Education Foundation of the Florida
Tallahassee, FL · EIN 59-6194391. Reported 76 grants totalling $1,840,000 to 48 organizations across tax years 2023-2024, 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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 48 distinct organizations, with 3% 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. 64% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $30,000; the smallest was $20,000 and the largest $50,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Backstreets Sports Bar | Cape Coral, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Best Western Beach Resort | Ft Myers Beach, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Blue Dog Bar & Grill | Matlacha, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bubbas Roadhouse & Saloon | Cape Coral, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Cantina Captiva | Captiva, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| City Tavern | Ft Myers Beach, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Dunes Owner LLC | Sanibel, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Gatorbites Tail & Ale | Fort Myers, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| High Tides at Snack Jacks | Flagler Beach, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Island Pizza Company | Sanibel, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Keylime Bistro Captiva | Captiva, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Landrys Restaurant | Rotonda West, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Nfk Restaurants | Bokeelia, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Nice Guys Pints & Pies | Cape Coral, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Over Easy Cafe | Sanibel, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Pinocchio's Original Italian Ice Cream | Sanibel, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Rc Otters | Captiva, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sanibel Deli and Coffee Factory | Fort Myers, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sanibel Inn Owner | Sanibel, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sanibel Sunset Beach | Sanibel, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Seventh South Craft Food & Drink | Naples, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Shalimar Cottages and Motel | Sanibel, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Steve's Famous Diner | Daytona Beach, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Stilwell Management Captiva Island Inn | Captiva, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| TEH4 Inc | Fort Myers, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Sanibel Cafe | Sanibel, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Tutti Pazzi Inc | Sanibel, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Yucatan Beachstand | Ft Myers Beach, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Yucatan Waterfront | Matlacha, FL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lighthouse Cafe of Sanibel Island | Sanibel, FL | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bubble Room Restaurant | Captiva, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Budget Inn Dipesh Inc | Punta Gorda, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Busters Sports Tavern | Fort Myers, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cafe One | Ormond Beach, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Captiva Hospitality Restaurant Group | Captiva, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cielo Restaurant | Schaumburg, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Farlow's on the Water | Englewood, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Farmers Market Restaurant | Ft Myers, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ft Myers Beach Vacations LLC | Ft Myers Beach, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Joey's Custard | Saint Augustine, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| JR Restaurant Group LLC | Fort Myers Beach, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Latinos Market Place | Ft Myers Beach, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Myerside | Ft Myers Beach, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nader Restaurant Corporation | Sanibel, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Parrot Key Caribbean Grill | Ft Myers Beach, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pink Shell Beach Resort & Spa | Ft Myers Beach, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sidecar Treats | Cape Coral, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Mucky Duck Inc | Captiva, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
28 of 48 (58%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 44 | $880,000 | $20,000 |
| 2024 | 32 | $960,000 | $30,000 |
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
99% 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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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 $20,000 -- 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.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Education 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.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 32 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 1779, Tallahassee, FL, 32302.
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