John's Island Community Service
Vero Beach, FL · EIN 59-1978180. Reported 186 grants totalling $6,550,324 to 48 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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 9% 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. 90% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 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 $30,000. Half of what it reported fell between $25,000 and $45,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $250,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Indian River County Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $587,000 | 8 | 4 | 2024 |
| Indian River County Healthy Start Coalition Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $405,000 | 15 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Learning Alliance Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $300,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Senior Resource Association Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $220,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Tykes & Teens Inc | Stuart, FL | $220,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Treasure Coast Community Health Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $214,865 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Safespace Inc | Stuart, FL | $210,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Thrive Irc Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $203,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mental Health Collaborative of Indian River Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $195,750 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Lifebuilders of the Treasure Coast Inc | Fort Pierce, FL | $170,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Arc of Indian River County Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $170,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Childcare Resources of Indian River Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $165,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Treasure Coast Homeless Service Council Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $160,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Hope for Families Center Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $151,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| United Against Poverty Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Whole Family Health Center Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Palm Beach Inc | Palm Bch Gdns, FL | $143,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Indian River State College Fdn Inc | Fort Pierce, FL | $140,209 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Youth Guidance of Indian River County Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $140,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Gifford Youth Achievement Center Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $136,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Alzheimer-Parkinson Association of Irc Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $135,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Early Learning Coalition of Indian River Martin & Okeechobee Counties | Stuart, FL | $130,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Crossover Mission Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $125,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Literacy Services of Indian River County Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $125,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mental Health Association in Indian River County Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $120,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Gifford Florida Youth Orchestra | Vero Beach, FL | $113,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ballet Vero Beach Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $111,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of St Lucie Indian River & Okeechobee Co | Vero Beach, FL | $110,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Scholarship Foundation of Indian River County Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $101,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Visiting Nurse Association of Indian River County Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $100,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Education Foundation of Indian River County Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $98,500 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Safe Families for Children Alliance | Chicago, IL | $95,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Special Equestrians of the Treasure Coast Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $95,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Suncoast Mental Health Center | Ft Pierce, FL | $90,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Willis Sports Association Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $87,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| I Am Ministries Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $85,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Coalition for Attainable Homes | Vero Beach, FL | $83,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hibiscus Childrens Center Inc | Jensen Beach, FL | $80,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Sunshine Physical Therapy Clinic Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $80,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Economic Opportunities Council of Indian River County Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $65,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Indian River County Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $55,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Childrens Home Society of Florida | Orlando, FL | $52,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Miss Bs Learning Bees | Columbia, SC | $51,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Redlands Christian Migrant Association Inc | Immokalee, FL | $36,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Senior Collaborative of Irc Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Pelican Island Audubon Society Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Junior Achievement USA | West Palm Bch, FL | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Feed the Lambs Enrichment Program Inc | Vero Beach, FL | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
46 of 48 (96%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 38 of 48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 45 | $1,299,500 | $25,000 |
| 2022 | 48 | $1,477,209 | $26,000 |
| 2023 | 46 | $1,661,865 | $35,000 |
| 2024 | 47 | $2,111,750 | $40,000 |
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
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 the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
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 $30,000 -- 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.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from John's Island Community Service'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 37 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: 4445 N Hwy A1A Suite 234, Vero Beach, FL, 32963.
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