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Central Florida Womens League Foundation

Windermere, FL · EIN 59-3614854. Reported 22 grants totalling $371,602 to 21 organizations across tax years 2020-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.

21organizations funded
$15,000median reported grant
$371,602granted, 2020-2025
0%of grantees funded again the next year
11%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Central Florida Womens League Foundation, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B82) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 21 distinct organizations, with 11% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 0% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below 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 $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $13,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $2,000 and the largest $38,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
Under $5,000
1 grant
$5,000 - $10,000
2 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
15 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
4 grants

2 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $19,602 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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Seniors First IncOrlando, FL$40,000222024
Special Hearts Farm IncWinter Garden, FL$38,000112024
Edgewood Childrens Ranch IncOrlando, FL$30,000112023
Greatest Investment Foundation IncOrlando, FL$30,000112022
Grace Medical Home IncOrlando, FL$20,000112022
Idignity IncOrlando, FL$20,000112023
Samaritan Village IncOrlando, FL$20,000112025
United Against Poverty IncVero Beach, FL$20,000112023
New Image Youth Center IncOrlando, FL$16,000112025
Alzheimers & Dementia Resource Center IncWinter Park, FL$15,000112025
Eight Waves CorporationWinter Garden, FL$15,000112024
Family Promise of Greater Orlando IncWinter Park, FL$15,000112020
Hope Community Center IncApopka, FL$15,000112020
Shepherds Hope IncWinter Garden, FL$15,000112022
Xponet Corporation Dba XpodigitalOrlando, FL$13,652112024
Russell Home for Atypical Children IncOrlando, FL$13,000112023
A Gift for Teaching IncOrlando, FL$10,000112022
Happy Trails Animal RescueOrlando, FL$10,000112020
Special Hearts Farm IncGotha, FL$8,000112020
Greenery Productions IncOrlando, FL$5,950112024
The Mustard Seed of Central Florida IncOrlando, FL$2,000112025

1 of 21 (5%) 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.

It also reported 2 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 14 of 21 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.

Human Services
5 orgs
Youth Development
2 orgs
Health Care
2 orgs
Education
2 orgs
Mental Health
1 org
Housing & Shelter
1 org
Animal Welfare
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20205$63,000$15,000
20224$75,000$17,500
20234$83,000$20,000
20245$97,602$15,000
20254$53,000$15,500

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

Orlando, FL
$231K
Winter Garden, FL
$68K
Winter Park, FL
$30K
Vero Beach, FL
$20K
Apopka, FL
$15K
Gotha, FL
$8K

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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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc15 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund15 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc12 shared recipientsCentral Florida Foundation12 shared recipientsThe Dr P Phillips Foundation11 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust11 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Florida.
  4. 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 Central Florida Womens League Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 6 returns (tax years 2020-2025). 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: Po Box 142, Windermere, FL, 34786.

EIN 59-3614854 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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