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COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA KEYS

EIN 65-0648968 KEY WEST, FL

Revenue 2025
$6,452,657
Expenses 2025
$2,981,803

Program services were 89.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T31
Classification
1000
Street
300 SOUTHARD ST STE 201

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

TO CONNECT PEOPLE, RESOURCES AND NEEDS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

CONNECTING PEOPLE, RESOURCES AND NEEDS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY.

  • GENERAL PHILANTHROPY, COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP AND REGIONAL IMPACT:THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA KEYS' MISSION IS TO MAKE THE FLORIDA KEYS A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE NOW AND IN THE FUTURE BY FOSTERING PHILANTHROPY AND CONNECTING PEOPLE, RESOURCES, AND COMMUNITY NEEDS. DURING 2025, THE FOUNDATION AWARDED MORE THAN $2.3 MILLION IN GRANTS TO NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS AND SCHOLARSHIPS THROUGHOUT MONROE COUNTY, AN INCREASE OF $456,589 OVER 2024. GRANTMAKING SUPPORTED A BROAD RANGE OF CHARITABLE PURPOSES, INCLUDING HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, EDUCATION AND SCHOLARSHIPS, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION, YOUTH DEVELOPMENT, ARTS AND CULTURE, MUSIC, THEATER, HISTORY, ANIMAL WELFARE, FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS, ADVOCACY, AND GENERAL PHILANTHROPY.THE FOUNDATION'S IN PARADISE FOR GOOD COMMUNITY GRANTS PROGRAM AWARDED MORE THAN $1 MILLION TO 73 NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTING THE LARGEST ANNUAL COMMUNITY GRANTS PROGRAM IN THE FOUNDATION'S HISTORY. THE PROGRAM EMPHASIZED COLLABORATIVE PHILANTHROPY BY ENGAGING DONOR ADVISED FUNDHOLDERS ALONGSIDE COMMUNITY REVIEWERS TO MAXIMIZE CHARITABLE IMPACT THROUGHOUT THE FLORIDA KEYS.THE FOUNDATION STRENGTHENED LONG-TERM CHARITABLE RESOURCES BY ESTABLISHING 20 NEW CHARITABLE FUNDS IN 2025, INCLUDING DONOR-ADVISED, FIELD-OF-INTEREST, DESIGNATED, SCHOLARSHIP, AGENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL ENDOWMENT, AND FISCAL AGENT FUNDS. THESE NEW FUNDS ADDED ALMOST $3 MILLION TO THE FOUNDATION'S ASSETS UNDER MANAGEMENT. AT YEAR-END, THE FOUNDATION MANAGED MORE THAN 240 CHARITABLE FUNDS, WITH ASSETS UNDER MANAGEMENT OF APPROXIMATELY $39.6 MILLION.THE FOUNDATION REMAINED COMMITTED TO IDENTIFYING AND ADDRESSING EVOLVING COMMUNITY NEEDS THROUGH THE UPPER, MIDDLE AND LOWER FLORIDA KEYS BY PARTNERING WITH NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, DONORS, VOLUNTEERS, COMMUNITY LEADERS AND REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCILS. DURING 2025, THE FOUNDATION'S REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCILS DISTRIBUTED $130,000 IN GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS SUPPORTING FOOD SECURITY, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, YOUTH DEVELOPMENT, ART AND CULTURE, EDUCATION AND HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES THROUGHOUT MONROE COUNTY. THESE COUNCILS PROVIDE LOCAL LEADERSHIP IN IDENTIFYING COMMUNITY PRIORITIES AND GUIDING CHARITABLE INVESTMENTS THAT IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE ACROSS THE ISLAND CHAIN. THE FOUNDATION ALSO CONTINUED CHARITABLE GIVING THROUGH SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS, AWARDING $89,000 SCHOLARSHIPS TO 47 STUDENTS, WHILE CONTINUING TO ENCOURAGE LONG-TERM PHILANTHROPY THROUGH ITS LEGACY SOCIETY, WHICH NOW INCLUDES 63 HOUSEHOLDS DOCUMENTING MORE THAN $45 MILLION IN FUTURE CHARITABLE COMMITMENTS BENEFITING THE FLORIDA KEYS.THROUGH COLLABORATIVE PHILANTHROPY, NONPROFIT CAPACITY BUILDING, SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS, COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP INITIATIVES AND PERMANENT CHARITABLE ENDOWMENTS, THE FOUNDATION CONTINUES TO FULFILL ITS MISSION OF CONNECTING PEOPLE, RESOURCES AND NEEDS THROUGHOUT THE FLORIDA KEYS.

    Expenses $2,600,683 · Grants $2,343,307 · Revenue $68,899

  • CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE: THE FOUNDATION CONTINUED TO STRENGTHEN THE NONPROFIT SECTOR THROUGH ITS CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE, PROVIDING LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT, GOVERNANCE EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL TRAINING, NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES, AND ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS THROUGHOUT THE FLORIDA KEYS.THE FOUNDATION'S LEADERSHIP SUCCESS ACADEMY GRADUATED 29 NONPROFIT LEADERS IN 2025 AND HAS TRAINED MORE THAN 700 LEADERS SINCE THE PROGRAM BEGAN IN 2008. THE CENTER ALSO PRESENTED EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS, THE ANNUAL FLORIDA KEYS NONPROFIT DAY, MORNING MARKETING EXCHANGE NETWORKING EVENTS, AND THE ANNUAL UNSUNG HEROES CELEBRATION RECOGNIZING OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS. DURING 2025, MORE THAN 150 NONPROFIT PROFESSIONALS PARTICIPATED IN FOUNDATION TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES, AND 85 VOLUNTEERS WERE HONORED THROUGH THE UNSUNG HEROES PROGRAM. BY PROVIDING EDUCATION, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR COLLABORATION, THE CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE CONTINUED TO IMPROVE NONPROFIT LEADERSHIP CAPACITY, GOVERNANCE, AND ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS THROUGHOUT THE FLORIDA KEYS.

    Expenses $65,942 · Revenue $13,157

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Elizabeth Brown

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $150,000
    From this org
    $150,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Laura Lietaert

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Andrea Spottswood

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jodi Weinhofer

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bobby Highsmith

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Warren Leamard

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Heidi Morris

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Larry Nolt

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ken Silverman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Robyn Still

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Isis Wright

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $6,452,657
    Expenses
    $2,981,803
    Contributions
    $4,595,075
    Grants paid
    $2,343,307
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $8,297,039
    Expenses
    $3,716,205
    Contributions
    $3,609,859
    Grants paid
    $2,782,334
  • 2022
    Revenue
    -$626,007
    Expenses
    $2,960,673
    Contributions
    $3,729,804
    Grants paid
    $2,058,248

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,913,150
    Expenses
    $2,359,830
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,054,923

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,408,265
    Expenses
    $2,119,536
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,454,207

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,995,601
    Expenses
    $2,502,170
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,644,870

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,444,484
    Expenses
    $2,303,547
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,835,091

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,196,315
    Expenses
    $2,581,052
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,718,640

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,779,035
    Expenses
    $2,073,723
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,557,963

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,915,362
    Expenses
    $1,633,922
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,593,339

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2025 return

  • CFFK HOLDINGS LLC

    REAL ESTATE · FL · income $0 · assets $0

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.