How much does Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I give?

Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I reported 58 itemized grants totaling $1,493,400, out of $11,031,132 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (53%), Environment (32%), Recreation & Sports (8%).

Who are Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: FL Fish & Wildlife Conservation ($5.7M), Howard T Odum Florida Springs Institute ($337k), Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc ($200k).

Does Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I?

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

Where is Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I based?

Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I is based in FL.

Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I

Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I

The FISH & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA Is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that seeks to protect our outstanding animals and plants and the lands and waters they need to survive.

$11M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$139k

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 2025.

Animals$5.1MEnvironment$3.2MRecreation & Sports$780kEducation$167kYouth Development$111kReligion$82kHealth$69kFood & Nutrition$62kOther$0

02FY2025 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 58 grants below total $1,493,400, the rows itemized in this filing. The $11,031,132 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $9,537,732 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k14 grants · $94k
$10k–50k37 grants · $806k
$50k–250k7 grants · $593k

$16,250

Median grant

States reached

$106M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION	$138,904
FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION	$120,000
CLEARWATER MARINE AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE	$100,000
FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION	$72,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT WILMINGTON	$62,537
FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION	$50,000
FRIENDS OF THE WEKIVA RIVER INC	$50,000
STETSON UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE FOR WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESILIENCE	$49,890
FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION	$40,000
FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION	$40,000
FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION	$39,015
FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION	$38,590
FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION	$37,200
FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION	$35,000
FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION	$35,000

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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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 7% of Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 86%.

Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida Ilessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 8.3% 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$8.5M · 43 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

43 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.5M

$860k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%

+17%

Still filing today

49%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $293k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentAnimalsEducationHealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther

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

HT
HOWARD T ODUM FLORIDA SPRINGS INSTITUTE
9× · 2017–2025 · $337k · revenue +41% · 26% of their budget
TF
The Future of Hunting In Florida Inc
8× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +42% · 32% of their budget
RR
REEF RENEWAL USA INC
2× · 2022–2024 · $68k · revenue +228%

Funded once

NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INCgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $59k · revenue +32%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2017 · $50k
UO
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA - HOWARD T ODUM CENTER FOR WETLANDS
one grant, 2018 · $49k

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

Florida Wildlife Federation

To safeguard Florida's water, wildlife, and wild spaces by taking action today to prevent irreversible loss tomorrow.

Animals

The Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation Inc C/O James Bildner

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The Florida Aquarium Inc

The florida aquarium's mission focuses on our shared purpose of a commitment to save marine wildlife, with a vision to be florida's leading conservation-based aquarium. (continued on schedule o)

Animals

Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc

In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…

Environment

Conservation Florida Inc

Conservation florida's mission is to permanently protect florida's water, wildlife, and wild places - the places that make florida home.

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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Mote Marine Laboratory Inc

The advancement of marine and environmental sciences through scientific research, education and public outreach, leading new discoveries, revitalization and sustainability of our oceans and greater public understanding of our marine…

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Lemon Bay Conservancy Inc

Lemon bay conservancy works to protect the wildlife and habitats of lemon bay, gasparilla sound, and their watersheds through land preservation and restoration, water quality initiatives, environmental education, and advocacy for…

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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

Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program Inc

Coastal bend bays & estuaries program is dedicated to protecting and restoring bays and estuaries of the texas coastal bend. coastal bend bays and estuaries remain a vital part of the environmental and economic landscape by preserving and…

Environment

The Everglades Foundation Inc

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)

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tampa Bay Watch Inc; 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.

05the grantee network

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 110 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)

48/48

Grantees still filing

25/48

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$7,872,797Environment$863,022Animals$362,323Health$252,750Education$235,014Recreation & Sports$82,319Human Services$70,657

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.

National Marine Sanctuary FoundationMD17.5× 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 · Felburn Foundation · J Crayton Pruitt Foundation Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · Christopher Reeve Foundation · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · NRA Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

21get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely 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