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Bergeron Everglades Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WINTERFEST INC | $30,000 |
| CONSERVANCY OF SW FLORIDA | $10,000 |
| BROWARD COUNTY AIRBOAT | $10,000 |
| FISH & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FISH & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| FWC OFFICERS ASSOCIATION | $6,000 |
| FLAMINGO GARDENS | $5,000 |
| STRANAHAN HOUSE | $5,000 |
| SAWGRASS NATURE CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER I | $5,000 |
| EVERGLADES COALITION | $4,000 |
| ARCHBOLD EXPEDITIONS INC | $2,500 |
| SOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENT | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF BIRCH STATE PARK | $1,250 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- FWFISH & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $19k
- FGFLAMINGO GARDENS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +18%
- CFCAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue -46%
Funded once
- SNSAWGRASS NATURE CENTER & WILDLIFE HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $776
- EOEVERGLADES OUTPOST WILDLIFE RESCUEone grant, 2023 · $500
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To safeguard Florida's water, wildlife, and wild spaces by taking action today to prevent irreversible loss tomorrow.
The Friends of Fakahatchee Inc. Provides Financial/Volunteer Support to Preserve the Unique Heritage of The Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park and to Educate the Public
Mission is to seek protection of land and water resources through restoration and conservation; and conducting education and outreach on the ecological and economic importance of natural lands. we protect land from development and protect…
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
Florida wildlife hospital & santuary, inc is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping florida wildlife and migratory birds with the mission of returning them to their place in the environment.
Local soil and water conservation districts depend on the organization for leadership and coordination in natural resource conservation endeavors. the organization operates under the direction of its elected governing body and provides…
Marine research
The mission of the foundation is to restore and protect america's everglades through its three programmatic pillars: science, advocacy and education. (continued on schedule o)
Preservation of the environment through ecological research to preserve our national heritage
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fwc Officers Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Birch State Park Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Winterfest Inc ↗
- Who funds BROWARD CNTY AIRBOAT HALFTRACK & CONSERVATION CLUB ↗
- Who funds FLAMINGO GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES COALITION ↗
- Who funds FWC OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Stranahan House Inc ↗
- Who funds ARCHBOLD EXPEDITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BIRCH STATE PARK INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bergeron Everglades Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Archbold Expeditions Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Everglades Coalition — 1% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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