How much does Felburn Foundation give?

Felburn Foundation reported 59 grants totaling $2,148,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 55 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Felburn Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (57%), Animals (19%), Education (9%).

Who are Felburn Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Columbia Land Trust ($1.4M), Beaufort County Open Land Trust ($1.1M), Conservation Florida Inc ($775k).

Does Felburn Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Felburn Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Felburn Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation, The Batchelor Foundation Inc, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.

Where is Felburn Foundation based?

Felburn Foundation is based in MD.

Felburn Foundation

Felburn Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Felburn Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.1M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$300k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$8.9MAnimals$2.9MEducation$1.4MArts & Culture$987kHealth$700kRecreation & Sports$419kScience & Tech$115kPhilanthropy$75kOther$0

02FY2024 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

$35M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
COLUMBIA LAND TRUST	$300,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY	$150,000
CONSERVATION FLORIDA INC	$100,000
THE CONSERVATION FUND	$100,000
NORTH FLORIDA LAND TRUST	$100,000
SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC	$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
PANTHERA CORP	$50,000
INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC	$50,000
FLORIDA WILDLIFE CORRIDOR FOUNDATION	$50,000
HORSE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION OF FLORIDA (HPAF)	$50,000
ENDANGERED ANIMAL RESCUE SANCTUARY (EARS)	$50,000
WILD LANDSCAPES	$50,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

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

About 13% of Felburn Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Felburn Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 9.2% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$13M · 79 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

79 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2024, 34 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

+57%

+10%

Still filing today

75%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% 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

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.

Backed again, and grew

COLUMBIA LAND TRUST
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +70%
CF
CONSERVATION FLORIDA INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $775k · revenue ×27 · 35% of their budget
AC
ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC
4× · 2017–2022 · $475k · revenue +191%

Funded once

CC
Conserving Carolinagraduated
one grant, 2017 · $238k · revenue +129%
SO
STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
one grant, 2019 · $176k
FO
FRIENDS OF THE CRYSTAL RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE COMPLEX
one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue -48% · 42% of their budget

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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

Wildlands Conservation Inc

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

Environment

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida

We are a grassroots organization focused on the critical environmental issues of sw florida. we accomplish this through a myriad of efforts by the teams in our programmatic departments: science, policy, education and wildlife…

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Georgia Conservancy Inc

To protect georgia through ecological and economic solutions for stewardship, conservation, and sustainable use of the land and its resources.

Environment

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

The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…

Environment

Florida Animal Protection Foundation

Animals

Archbold Expeditions Inc

Archbold expeditions, inc.'s mission is to build and share the scientific knowledge needed to protect the life, lands, and waters of the heart of florida and beyond.

Unclassified

Natureconnect Florida Inc

Environment

Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…

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

Sri Lanka Wild Life Conservation Society

The Sri Lanka Wild Life Conservation Society was set-up to help protect and conserve the diminishing of Sri Lanka and to make the local and international community aware of it's endangered status. It is dedicated to the conservation and…

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Florida Inc; the most unlike its peers is Loris Historical Society Archives Libraries & Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

104 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 104 of the 145 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

100/104

Grantees still filing

71/104

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Environment$6,804,725Other$4,098,639Animals$2,390,500Education$1,053,100Philanthropy$820,000Arts & Culture$316,500International$193,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Duke Energy FoundationNC24.3× affinity25 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 · The Jelks Family Foundation Inc · Knopf Family Foundation Inc · Jacarlene Foundation · J Crayton Pruitt Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · EJK Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Land Trust Alliance Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Felburn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Felburn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

28get no government money at all

23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

5rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home