How much did FELBURN FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Environment$5.6MAnimals$2.1MEducation$1.1MPhilanthropy$820kArts & Culture$317kInternational$194kRecreation & Sports$183kHuman Services$115kSocial Science$75kOther$5.1M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

rainbowparcelhistorymuseumpurchasespringshorse

2019

expansionbuilding constructionriverwhitehorse

2020

bushfireaidsavingexpansionhabitateducationalbuilding construction

2021

directorsalaryforestsaveraptorseaeducational

2022

sanctuarynaturewhitesiteanimal care

2023

columbiapreservationriver gorgegorge landland protectionresearch conservationcoordinator

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $18k
$10k–50k38 grants · $685k
$50k–250k16 grants · $1.1M
$250k+1 grant · $300k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$44M

Total assets

Largest grants

COLUMBIA LAND TRUST$300,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$150,000
SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC$100,000
NORTH FLORIDA LAND TRUST$100,000
CONSERVATION FLORIDA INC$100,000
THE CONSERVATION FUND$100,000
HOWARD T ODUM FLORIDA SPRINGS INSTITUTE INC$75,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER$60,000
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC$60,000
CEDAR LAKES WOODS AND GARDENS$50,000
INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC$50,000
FLORIDA WILDLIFE CORRIDOR FOUNDATION$50,000
ENDANGERED ANIMAL RESCUE SANCTUARY (EARS)$50,000
CONSERVATION FOUNDATION OF THE GULF COAST$50,000
HORSE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION OF FLORIDA (HPAF)$50,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 9% of FELBURN FOUNDATION’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 1% of the giving stays in MD; read by stated purpose it is 3% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

FELBURN FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 7.3% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$13M · 82 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

82 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$13M

$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%

+103%

Still filing today

67%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $213k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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

COLUMBIA LAND TRUST
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +70%
CT
CONSERVATION TRUST FOR FLORIDA
8× · 2017–2024 · $775k · revenue +737% · 35% of their budget
SC
SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $700k · revenue +1364%

Funded once

CC
CONSERVING CAROLINA FKA CAROLINA MOUNTAIN LAND CONSERVANCY
one grant, 2017 · $238k
SO
STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
one grant, 2019 · $176k
FO
FRIENDS OF THE CRYSTAL RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE COMPLEX INC
one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue -48% · 42% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Wildlands Conservation Inc

Preservation of the environment through ecological research to preserve our national heritage

Environment

Florida Conservation Group Inc

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…

Environment

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida

Our mission is to protect southwest florida's unique natural environment and quality of life.

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Florida State Parks Foundation Inc

Florida state parks foundation preserves, protects, sustains and grows florida state parks.

Recreation & Sports

International Wildlife

The international wildlife refuge foundation was created in 2005 to help foster conservation, increase refuge visibility, encourage support, and enhance quality of life. it is an alliance of organizations and individuals that builds the…

Environment

Endangered Species International

Endangered Species International is strongly committed to reversing the trend of human-induced species extinction, saving endangered animals, and preserving wild places. Our field work focuses on rainforest restoration and conservation,…

Animals

Association of Florida Conservation

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…

Environment

Atlantic Coast Conservancy Inc

To protect land through conservation easements and similar land conservation tools and to provide solutions and scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources focusing on the southeastern united states.

Environment

Florida Audubon Society Inc

Natural resource protection through conservation of wildlife, preservation of habitat, including clean air and water, and prudent growth management for sustained quality of life.

Environment

Florida Forestry Association

To promote the responsible use of florida's forest resources

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Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions.

Environment

Florida Animal Protection Foundation

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I and the most unlike its peers is Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/98

the rest of the field

14%

14,580/102,946

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

06the grantee network

93 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

90/93

Grantees still filing

71/93

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Environment$5,614,992Other$5,518,372Animals$2,110,500Education$1,053,100Philanthropy$820,000Arts & Culture$316,500International$193,800

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.

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.

Duke Energy FoundationNC23.3× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Knopf Family Foundation Inc · American Association Of · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Patagoniaorg · EJK Foundation · Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I · Foundation for the Carolinas · Jacarlene Foundation · United Way of North Central Florida Inc

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 organisation FELBURN FOUNDATION 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

39get no government money at all

3rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LORIS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ARCHIVES LIBRARIES AND MUSEUM INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~21 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 38.6× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 822326576 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LORIS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ARCHIVES LIBRARIES AND MUSEUM INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 21 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 80% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Felburn Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Felburn Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

FELBURN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

93 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Felburn Foundation?

More from the funding graph

FELBURN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

93 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Felburn Foundation?

More from the funding graph