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Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc

To conserve and restore bonefish, tarpon and permit fisheries and habitats through research, stewardship, education and advocacy

$1.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Itemized grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
55%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$1.2M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$140,350
Largest grant, FY2025
$280,350
Organizations funded a year
4 to 11
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$2.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 55% of the organizations Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$1.2M22%
FY202411$841k55%
FY20234$420k25%
FY20225$303k20%
FY20216$256k50%
FY20206$855k0%
FY20199$593kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Science & Tech$2.7MEducation$1.5MEnvironment$163kArts & Culture$30kAnimals$28kPhilanthropy$5k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
MA
AZ
NC
SC
LA
AL
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Florida Atlantic University$1,369,9557n/a
University of Massachusetts Amherst Foundation Inc$795,45255%
Florida International University Foundation Inc$620,87651%
University of South Alabama$325,2632n/a
Florida International University$319,7672n/a
University of Wisconsin Madison$256,1104n/a
Florida Gulf Coast University$203,7352n/a
Florida State University$140,3501n/a
Oyster River Ecology Inc$65,000115%
Texas A&M Univ at Galveston$61,5452n/a
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All grantees of Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Florida Atlantic University$1,369,9557n/a
University of Massachusetts Amherst Foundation Inc$795,45255%
Florida International University Foundation Inc$620,87651%
University of South Alabama$325,2632n/a
Florida International University$319,7672n/a
University of Wisconsin Madison$256,1104n/a
Florida Gulf Coast University$203,7352n/a
Florida State University$140,3501n/a
Oyster River Ecology Inc$65,000115%
Texas A&M Univ at Galveston$61,5452n/a
University of Miami$55,18620%
Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc$44,00022%
Eckerd College$39,26620%
Florida Keys History and Discovery Foundation Inc$30,00015%
Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I$28,00020%
Tampa Bay Waterkeeper Inc$22,943114%
Texas A&M University at Galveston$20,5151n/a
The Everglades Coalition$17,50034%
USC School of Medicine Greenville$15,6801n/a
Louisiana State University$15,0002n/a
Friends of the Environment Inc$13,70012%
University of Arizona$5,5101n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst Foundation Inc: $795,452 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetFlorida International University Foundation Inc: $620,876 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetOyster River Ecology Inc: $65,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $55,186 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBiscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc: $44,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetEckerd College: $39,266 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Keys History and Discovery Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetFish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I: $28,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTampa Bay Waterkeeper Inc: $22,943 over 1y, 14% of budgetThe Everglades Coalition: $17,500 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetFriends of the Environment Inc: $13,700 over 1y, 1.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc

How much does Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc give?
Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc reported 9 itemized grants totaling $1,197,256, out of $1,301,336 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (61%), Education (34%), Environment (4%).
Who are Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Florida Atlantic University ($1.4M), University of Massachusetts Amherst Foundation Inc ($795k), Florida International University Foundation Inc ($621k).
Does Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc based?
Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc is based in FL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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