West Bay Community Charitable Foundation
Estero, FL · EIN 47-1584850. Reported 132 grants totalling $1,353,507 to 42 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, 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 West Bay Community Charitable Foundation, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for human services (NTEE P12).
- How spread out its giving is. 42 distinct organizations, with 5% 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. 80% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 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 $8,500. Half of what it reported fell between $5,000 and $12,000; the smallest was $3,000 and the largest $30,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance for Period Supplies of Swfl | Estero, FL | $71,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Interfaith Charities of South Lee Inc | Fort Myers, FL | $68,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Laces of Love Charitable Foundation Inc | Naples, FL | $67,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| St Matthews House Inc | Naples, FL | $67,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Pathways Early Education Center of Immokalee Inc | Immokalee, FL | $66,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Anas Friends Inc | Fort Myers, FL | $60,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Blessings in a Backpack Inc | Louisville, KY | $60,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Cafe of Life Inc | Bonita Spgs, FL | $59,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Youth Haven Inc | Naples, FL | $57,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Society of St Vincent De Paul District Council of Fort Myers | Cape Coral, FL | $53,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Pace Center for Girls Inc | Jacksonville, FL | $51,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Community Cooperative Inc | Fort Myers, FL | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Literacy Council Gulf Coast Inc | Bonita Spgs, FL | $45,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Abuse Counseling and Treatment Inc | Fort Myers, FL | $44,007 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| New Horizons of Southwest | Naples, FL | $40,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Life Choice Crisis Pregnancy Center Inc | Estero, FL | $37,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Our Mothers Home | Ft Myers, FL | $36,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Friends of Foster Children Forever Inc | Naples, FL | $34,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Child Care of Southwest Florida Inc | Fort Myers, FL | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Valeries House | Naples, FL | $27,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Christy S Cause | Estero, FL | $27,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Young Parent Education Program | Ft Myers, FL | $26,900 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| My Autism Connection Inc | Fort Myers, FL | $25,700 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Holocaust Museum & Education Center of Swfl | Naples, FL | $25,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Our Mothers Home of Southwest Florida Inc | Fort Myers, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Temple Shalom Inc | Naples, FL | $23,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc | Fort Myers, FL | $21,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Fostering Success | Wayne, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Council of the United States Society of St Vincent De Pa | Maryland Hts, MO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Valeries House Inc | Fort Myers, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| West Bay Community Charitable Foundation Inc | Estero, FL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Immokalee Foundation Inc | Naples, FL | $13,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Gulf Coast Humane Society Inc | Fort Myers, FL | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Southwest Charter Foundation Inc | Ft Lauderdale, FL | $11,400 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Center for the Arts of Bonita Springs Inc | Bonita Spgs, FL | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Humane Society of Southwest Florida | Ft Myers, FL | $9,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Child Care of Southwest Florida | Fort Myers, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc | Fort Myers, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Musicscores Violin Inc | Naples, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Florida Repertory Company Inc | Fort Myers, FL | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Naples Music Club Inc | Naples, FL | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Special Olympics of Southwest Florida | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
32 of 42 (76%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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.
- Pathways Early Education Center of Immokalee
TUITION ASSISTANCE AND WRAPAROUND SERVICES - Alliance for Period Supplies of Sw Florida
PERIOD PRODUCT DISTRIBUTION - Blessings in a Backpack of Sw Florida
WEEKEND FOOD IN BACKPACKS FOR SAN CARLOS ELEMENTARY KIDS - Cafe of Life
FOOD, CLOTHING, SPECIAL EVENTS, SPECIFICALLY BACK TO SCHOOL BACKPACKS WITH SUPPLIES FOR UNDERSERVED KIDS - Interfaith Charities of South Lee (icsl)
FOOD PANTRY (75% OF CLIENTS IN SAN CARLOS PARK - Laces of Love Charitible Foundations Inc
APPROX 275 PAIR OF SHOES @ $45 EA
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 31 of 42 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 | 32 | $201,507 | $5,000 |
| 2021 | 28 | $214,500 | $7,500 |
| 2022 | 28 | $254,500 | $8,250 |
| 2023 | 27 | $295,000 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 17 | $388,000 | $25,000 |
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
93% 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 $8,500 -- 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 West Bay Community Charitable Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 17 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: 4606 W Bay Blvd, Estero, FL, 33928.
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