Boca West Children's Foundation Fka Boca
Boca Raton, FL · EIN 27-3840788. Reported 164 grants totalling $7,326,163 to 52 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 Boca West Children's Foundation Fka Boca, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for human services (NTEE P12).
- How spread out its giving is. 52 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. 86% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $31,850. Half of what it reported fell between $19,750 and $62,496; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $180,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
40 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $1,093,670 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 | $556,461 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Place of Hope Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $446,350 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Caridad Center Inc | Boynton Beach, FL | $410,250 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Florence Fuller Child Development Centers Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $406,802 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Boca Helping Hands Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $398,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Sos Childrens Villages Florida Inc | Coconut Creek, FL | $375,409 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $352,050 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Roots and Wings Inc | Delray Beach, FL | $322,391 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County Inc | West Palm Beach, FL | $299,682 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Jafco Childrens Ability Center Inc | Sunrise, FL | $292,200 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Rotary Club of Boca Raton Sunrise Foundation Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $252,650 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Jafco Jewish Adoption and Family Care Options Inc | Sunrise, FL | $221,250 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Eda and Cliff Viner Community Scholars Foundation Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $209,700 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Diaper Bank | Boca Raton, FL | $199,499 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Kelly-Strul Foundation | Boca Raton, FL | $196,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Adolph and Rose Levis Jewish Community Center Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $192,550 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Education Foundation of Palm Beach County Inc | Lk Worth Bch, FL | $178,650 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| American Association of Caregiving Youth Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $163,450 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Bound for College Inc | Delray Beach, FL | $147,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Spirit of Giving Network Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $142,750 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Nat King Cole Generation Hope Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $140,550 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of South Palm Beach County Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $130,615 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Childrens Place at Home Safe Inc | Lake Worth, FL | $119,100 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Best Foot Forward | Boca Raton, FL | $115,450 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| College for Kids Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $95,050 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Propel Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $89,292 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Elizabeth H Faulk Foundation Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $85,250 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Unicorn Children's Foundation | Boca Raton, FL | $76,300 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of the Palm Beaches Inc | Lake Worth, FL | $68,932 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Joe Dimaggio Childrens Hospital Foundation Inc | Hollywood, FL | $65,300 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Center for Child Counseling Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $62,800 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Kidsafe Foundation | Boca Raton, FL | $61,650 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| 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 |
| Living Hungry Inc | Delray Beach, FL | $40,700 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Connections Education Center of the Palm Beaches Inc | West Palm Beach, FL | $35,600 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Supplies for Success Inc | New York, NY | $34,280 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Junior League | Boca Raton, FL | $32,400 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rotary Club Downtown Boca Raton Fund | Boca Raton, FL | $30,600 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Best Foot Forward Foundation Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $29,900 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Boca Raton Police Athletic League Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $18,700 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Cellus Foundation Inc | Scotch Plains, NJ | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Love Serving Autism Inc | N Palm Beach, FL | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Homesafe | Lake Worth, FL | $14,200 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Boca School for Autism | Boca Raton, FL | $12,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sos Childrens Village USA Inc | Washington, DC | $12,300 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| City House-Delray Beach Inc | Delray Beach, FL | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Center for Family Services Inc | Voorhees, NJ | $10,300 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Boca Raton Achievement Center Inc | Boca Raton, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| 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 |
42 of 52 (81%) 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.
- Kelly Strul Scholarship Program
GENERAL ASSISTANCE TO THE ORGANIZATION
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 39 of 52 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 |
| 2024 | 35 | $1,699,286 | $38,831 |
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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $31,850 -- 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 Children's Foundation Fka Boca's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 20583 Boca West Drive, Boca Raton, FL, 33434.
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