SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC DAF sponsor

2024 · Form 990 · revenue $31.4M · expenses $19.7M · assets $183.5M

Also known as

COLLABORATORY

EIN

59-6580974

Address

2031 JACKSON STREET, FORT MYERS, FL 33901-3627

Website

WWW.COLLABORATORY.ORG

NTEE code

T31Z

Exempt type

501(c)(3): charitable, religious, educational, scientific or literary (corporation)

Ruling date

December 1976 (when the IRS recognized its exemption)

IRS status

Exempt (unconditional) (IRS Business Master File) IRS data ↗

Tax-deductible donations

Yes: listed in IRS Publication 78 (public charity) Pub 78 ↗

Foundation status

Public charity supported by the public (170(b)(1)(a)(vi))

Donor-advised funds

Sponsor: its returns say it maintains donor-advised funds (latest tax year 2024). Figures by year

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Mission

SEE SCHEDULE OCOLLABORATORY IS A COMMUNITY FOUNDATION WITH AN EVOLVED MISSION COMMITTED TO COORDINATING THE SOLVING OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA'S MAJOR SOCIAL PROBLEMS BY 2040. SINCE OUR FOUNDING IN 1976, WE HAVE BEEN SUPPORTING LOCAL CAUSES AND NONPROFIT WORK, BUT UNFORTUNATELY, MANY OF OUR SOCIAL ISSUES CONTINUE TO STAY THE SAME OR GET WORSE. WE BELIEVE STRONGLY IN THE TRADITIONAL WORK WE DO BUT ARE ALSO COMMITTED TO MAKING A DEEPER IMPACT GOING TO THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE SOCIAL ISSUES PLAGUING OUR REGION. WE ARE A COMMUNITY FOUNDATION WITH OVER $100 MILLION GRANTED OVER THE YEARS, JOINED WITH A MUCH LARGER EFFORT IN COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP. BY BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER, WE'RE TACKLING THE ROOT CAUSE AND UPSTREAM ISSUES THAT MAKE THESE GRANTS NECESSARY.

Each tax year counts once: when a return was amended, only the latest return for that period is used below (superseded returns stay listed, greyed, under Finances).

People paid by the organization

15 people paid across every filing: current people first, then by total pay from this organization. Organizations counts every nonprofit each person appears on.

Officers and directors, no compensation reported

69 people listed on the returns with $0 (or no amount) in every compensation column: current people first. Hours are as filed on the latest return each person appears on.

People by year

Highest-paid independent contractors

Federal grants and contracts

Awards from USAspending.gov to a recipient with this organization's name and zip code. Obligations by federal fiscal year (October to September); each award links to its page on usaspending.gov.

State business registration

• SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, INC. FL, Domestic nonprofit corporation (DOMNP), Active, formed 1976-03-01

The same business name in the same state, from the state’s official registry data.

Trademarks

1 US trademark, 0 live.

• Southwest Florida Community Foundation,Inc. 1 marks, FL EXACT high confidence: identical full name and state

The newest marks of the trademark owners above, matched to this record by name (and state).

Who the money went to

Grants this organization reported paying: Schedule I Part II of the Form 990, or the grants-paid list on the 990-PF. Open a year for every recipient. Recipients link to their own page when the grant names an EIN we have (990-PF grants list no EIN, so those link only on an exact, unique name and state). Grants to individuals are counted; their names are not shown.

Negative amounts are returned or refunded grants; they are listed last and left out of the totals of grants paid.

Who gave

Contributor names are not public for this form type.

Public charities filing Form 990 or 990-EZ report large donors on Schedule B, but the IRS withholds their names and addresses from public copies. Private foundations (990-PF) are different: their contributors are public.

Finances

Newest first. Each filing: its name on one row, its figures on the row beneath. Greyed filings are superseded by a later return for the same period and are left out everywhere else on this page.

Connected to

Organizations that list some of the same people on their returns (officers, directors, key employees on this organization’s latest return), and related organizations it lists on Schedule R.

• PEDRO CUBAN PETE AGUILAR AND BARBARA CRADDOCK ENDOWMENT INC Fort Myers, FL · 4 people in common (Dawn Belamarich, Joseph Braun, Marina Nassif) · related organization (Schedule R)
• FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC Fort Myers, FL · 3 people in common (Gail Markham, Gary Griffin, Suzanne Boy)
• SWFLCF SUPPORT ORGANIZATION INC Fort Myers, FL · 3 people in common (Dawn Belamarich, Marina Nassif, Sharon Ralston) · related organization (Schedule R)
• UNITED WAY OF LEE COUNTY INC Fort Myers, FL · 2 people in common (Gary Griffin, Sally Jackson)
• HORIZON FOUNDATION INC Fort Myers, FL · 2 people in common (Gail Markham, Gary Griffin)
• HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LEE & HENDRY COUNTIES INC Fort Myers, FL · 1 person in common (Gary Griffin)
• CANTERBURY SCHOOL CORPORATION Fort Myers, FL · 1 person in common (Suzanne Boy)
• FLORIDA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC Tallahassee, FL · 1 person in common (Dawn Belamarich)
• THE FOUNDATION FOR LEE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC Fort Myers, FL · 1 person in common (Gary Griffin)
• CHAMBER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC Fort Myers, FL · 1 person in common (Gary Griffin)
• SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Naples, FL · 1 person in common (Gary Griffin)

Funders of this organization

105 grantors reported grants to this organization, $14,564,385 in all, tax years 2010 to 2025; the 25 largest shown (all 105). Exact: the grantor wrote this organization's EIN. Fuzzy: the grantor wrote only a name (foundations' 990-PF has no EIN field), matched to the same or a near-identical name in the same state; the name as filed is shown. From the latest return for each grantor and year, so amended returns aren't counted twice. CSV

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Where the money went

Every expense line on each return, biggest first: Form 990 Part IX (with its program, management and fundraising columns), 990-EZ Part I, or 990-PF Part I. Event marks lines the organization itself describes as events. “Events” in each summary adds those lines, conferences and meetings, and the direct costs of fundraising events. Unusual is not the same as improper. Many of these patterns have ordinary explanations. Check the filing.