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FISH & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA I
Provide assistance, funding, and promotional support to contribute to the health and well-being of florida's fish and wildlife resources and their habitats.
$7.5M
Granted FY2024
45
Grants
3
Communities
$171k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 80% of FISH & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA I’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
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
2019
enhancedsnakespringswatchbearhuntingassessingallout
2020
spongeaquiferimpactsfloridastoolstudysurveillance
2021
archery conservationfreedom blackwatersuwannee riveroperation outdooroutdoor freedomendangeredprotection
2022
gamebowpanther phaseducks unlimitedwood duckcitizen scienceclassroom
2023
towtracks overover wheelssocialsouthwestcamptraining
2024
tricolored heroneffectiveyouth conservationconservation archerylower santakeyscritical
2025
cwtwff youthsoutheasternnestpfs quantifyingfgktrack
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 45 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $646k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $488k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$91M
Total assets
Largest grants
- FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION$170,950
- FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION$150,000
- FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION$60,571
- FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION$55,000
- FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION$51,086
- MANATEE COUNTY NATURAL RESOURCES$40,000
- REEF RENEWAL USA INC$38,000
- BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST$35,000
- FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION$31,452
- AUDUBON OF FLORIDA$30,000
- FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION$30,000
- AUDUBON OF FLORIDA$28,500
- FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION$27,080
- THE FUTURE OF HUNTING IN FLORIDA$25,967
- UNIVERISTY OF SOUTH FLORIDA$25,009
02The need
04
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 (FY18–24, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — 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.
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Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of FISH & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA I’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.
FISH & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA Ilessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.0% 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.
84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.0M · 31 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else
31 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
31
47
Total granted
$6.0M
$833k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+42%
+62%
Still filing today
48%
36%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $326k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EnvironmentAnimalsEducationRecreation & SportsHealthHuman ServicesOther
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
- HTHOWARD T ODUM FLORIDA SPRINGS INSTITUTE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $274k · revenue +41% · 26% of their budget
- TFTHE FUTURE OF HUNTING IN FLORIDA INC7× · 2018–2024 · $153k · revenue +42% · 32% of their budget
- RRREEF RENEWAL USA INC2× · 2022–2024 · $68k · revenue +5281%
Funded once
- TNTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYone grant, 2020 · $90k
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA BOARD OF TRUSTEESone grant, 2020 · $59k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA - HOWARD T ODUM CENTER FOR WETLANDSone grant, 2018 · $49k
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.
1
Florida Section American Water
Uniting the water community to effectively manage water, the worlds most important resource.
Public Benefit
2
North Florida Botanical Society Inc
To establish, develop and maintain a botanical garden that celebrates the immense beauty and diversity of the earths flora.
Environment
3
Marine Conservation Science Institute
Philanthropy
4
American Fisheries Society
The american fisheries society is the world's oldest and largest organization dedicated to strengthening the fisheries profession, advancing fisheries science, and conserving fisheries resources.
Animals
5
Save the Manatee Club Inc
Manatee protection and preservation.
Animals
6
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
7
Gulf of Maine Research Institute
The gulf of maine research institute (gmri) pioneers collaborative solutions to global ocean challenges.
Animals
8
Symbioseas
Marine research
Science & Tech
9
University of Florida
To assist the university of florida in funding of research & development through grants & contractual arrangements & in the commercialization of intellectual properties, which include inventions, discoveries, processes, & work products.
Education
10
Coral Conservancy
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11
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
12
Florida Animal Protection Foundation
Animals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florida Disabled Outdoors and the most unlike its peers is Cloud Nine Outdoors. 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
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 25 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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%0/61
the rest of the field
14%
14,580/102,983
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
39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
28/39
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$5,822,818Environment$743,563Health$232,750Animals$184,694Education$80,397Recreation & Sports$75,719Human Services$64,345
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 HOWARD T ODUM FLORIDA SPRINGS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FUTURE OF HUNTING IN FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds SPORTSABILITY ALLIANCE (FLORIDA DISABLED OUTDOORS ASSOCIATION) ↗
- Who funds SPORTSABILITY ALLIANCE (FLORIDA DISABLED OUTDOORS ASSOCIATION) ↗
- Who funds CLEARWATER MARINE AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds REEF RENEWAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds AUDUBON OF FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds REMOVING THE BARRIERS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SPRINGS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds SEA TO SHORE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GRAY FISHTAG RESEARCH 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.
National Marine Sanctuary FoundationMD17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: National Marine Sanctuary Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · J Crayton Pruitt Foundation Inc · Felburn Foundation · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · Christopher Reeve Foundation · NRA Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 FISH & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA I 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
- Florida Disabled Outdoors — 22% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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: THE FUTURE OF HUNTING IN FLORIDA INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 205116774 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 THE FUTURE OF HUNTING IN FLORIDA 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
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 32% of their budget — diversified.
- 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.
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Find your warmest path to Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I 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.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines