Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Fort Myers, Florida

93
foundations with a Fort Myers address
$57.5M
grants paid, FY2024–FY2025
24
say they accept unsolicited
$5,000
median grant

Grantlas lists 93 foundations that gave a Fort Myers, Florida address on their tax filing — 83 private foundations and 10 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2024–FY2025. Together they paid out $57.5 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 24 of them (26%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Fort Myers foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 93 foundations

Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing, with the ones that accept unsolicited requests first, then the ones whose filing doesn’t say.

Foundations in Fort Myers, Florida
The Edward & Gale McBride Foundation IncAccepts$25,000$1.5M$5,000–$150,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Fred & Jean Allegretti FoundationAccepts$5,000$830,870$2,500–$45,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
John E & Aliese Price FoundationAccepts$15,000$447,000$250–$55,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Surefire TrustAccepts$8,000$323,498$500–$123,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Cliff and Georganne Williams FamilyAccepts$2,000$286,000$1,000–$101,500No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The George and Mary Jo Sanders FounAccepts$5,000$248,000$500–$33,500Down 11% over 3 yearsFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Lancellot Family Foundation IncAccepts$1,125$198,455$150–$80,888No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Lloyd Family FoundationAccepts$5,000$196,000$250–$30,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Hawkins Family Foundation IncAccepts$1,000$150,383$170–$149,633No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Robert W Rings CharitableAccepts$35,160$140,338$24,500–$60,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Rocque Family FoundationAccepts$3,000$127,500$800–$25,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Parikh FoundationAccepts$4,000$110,400$51–$35,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Whitey's Foundation IncAccepts$10,000$66,000$10,000–$36,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Bachhuber Family Foundation IncAccepts$61,165$61,165—No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Nanda Educational Charitable TrustAccepts$1,000$57,000$100–$15,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Joseph R Catti and Jo Ann M CattiAccepts$11,000$51,000$2,500–$50,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Neil Tressie & Neil J DelongAccepts$41,895$42,437$41,352–$42,437No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Rudlaff Family FoundationAccepts$3,750$37,500$1,000–$10,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Stevens Family Foundation IncAccepts$3,000$23,000$2,500–$10,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Kleist Family FoundationAccepts$3,250$11,700$200–$10,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Nellans Family FoundationAccepts$754$7,985$167–$3,393No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Gulf Harbour Charitable Foundation IncAccepts$2,126$7,422$1,331–$4,400No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Rama Dressage FoundationAccepts$5,109$2,500$2,500–$7,718No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The John A Carbona Foundation IncAccepts$103$206$100–$1,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The United Way of Lee County IncFederationNot stated$75,300Over $5k only$21.7M$5,391–$3.6MNo grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from each funder’s grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report. Community foundations and other charities list only grants over $5,000, so their figures run high.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.
  • A median grant larger than the grants paid is not a mistake: the grant schedule and the year’s total come from different parts of the tax filing, and a foundation can list a grant it approved in a year it paid out less.
  • 3-yr trend compares the latest filing year with the year two before it, so it needs grants on file for both. Most foundations file one year of grants, so most rows show a dash.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2024–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.