· 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.
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 fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 58 grants below total $1,493,400 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $11,031,132 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,537,732 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $806k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $593k
| 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 |
| FRIENDS OF THE WEKIVA RIVER INC | $50,000 |
| FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION | $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 |
| BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST | $35,000 |
| FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION | $35,000 |
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.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — 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 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. Read by recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 86% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $293k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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 INSTITUTE9× · 2017–2025 · $337k · revenue +41% · 26% of their budget
- TFThe Future of Hunting In Florida Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +42% · 32% of their budget
- RRREEF RENEWAL USA INC2× · 2022–2024 · $68k · revenue +32%
Funded once
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $59k · revenue +32%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $50k
- 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.
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.
To safeguard Florida's water, wildlife, and wild spaces by taking action today to prevent irreversible loss tomorrow.
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…
Conservation florida's mission is to permanently protect florida's water, wildlife, and wild places - the places that make florida home.
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…
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…
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…
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.
To inspire and advance manatee conservation by partnering cooperatively in manatee rescue, rehabilitation, release, and monitoring efforts; improve understanding of manatee biology and health through scientific research; and promote…
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…
To inspire environmental stewardship of florida's coastal ecosystems through education, research and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tampa Bay Watch Inc 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.
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 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 ↗
- Who funds Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds The Future of Hunting In Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA DISABLED OUTDOORS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds 10 CAN Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds REEF RENEWAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds STETSON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT WILMINGTON ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds REMOVING THE BARRIERS INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sea to Shore Alliance ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WEKIVA RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SPRINGS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MINORITIES IN SHARK SCIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
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.
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
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 organization 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.
- Southwest Florida Council Inc — 6% of income from government
- Alachua Conservation Trust Inc — 5% of income from government
- Central Florida Council Boy Scouts of America Inc — 2% of income from government
- Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
- Stetson University Inc — 0% of income from government
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 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.