· Public charity
Florida Lighthouse Association Inc
The florida lighthouse associations fla mission is to safeguard floridas remaining lighthouses for future generations by supporting community based restoration, preservation and education efforts.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Friends of Cape Florida Inc | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $110,000 |
| Barrier Island Parks Society Inc | $85,950 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 48% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 9% of Florida Lighthouse Association Inc’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, 100% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 94% — 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.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k 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
- PLPENSACOLA LIGHTHOUSE ASSOCIATION2× · 2019–2023 · $143k · revenue +9%
- LRLOXAHATCHEE RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC4× · 2017–2023 · $111k · revenue +30%
- SASt Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum3× · 2021–2023 · $102k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- AIAMELIA ISLAND LIGHTHOUSEone grant, 2020 · $66k
- PIPONCE INLET LIGHTHOUSE ASSOCone grant, 2020 · $58k
- SJSt Joe Historical Societyone grant, 2019 · $38k
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.
Preservation and maintenance of hillsboro inlet lighthouse which was installed in hillsboro beach, florida in 1907 so that the local community, tourists, and future generations will continue to be educated and understand the history of the…
Under contract with the State of California, Point Cabrillo Lightkeepers Association (PCLK) manages, interprets, and maintains the Point Cabrillo Light Station, a State Historic Park and site listed in the National Registry of Historic…
The LAMP is dedicated to the investigation, interpretation, and better understanding of the maritime history and archeology of St. Augustine, the "First Coast" region of Florida, and beyond.
To restore an maintain port clinton's historic pier head lighthouse and return it to the waterfront where it will be on permanent display to the public.
The museum was founded in 1945 by the fairport harbor historical society, which is devoted to preserving and perpetuating the historic tradition of fairport harbor and the great lakes area. the original lighthouse was completed in 1825.
Preservation of lighthouse and immediate grounds and educate the public on the lighthouse history.
To preserve the historical lighthouse
The purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…
The society is dedicated to the preservation and renovation of the tybee island light station and related buildings.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Barrier Island Parks Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Egmont Key Alliance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 19 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 BARRIER ISLAND PARKS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CAPE FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds PENSACOLA LIGHTHOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LOXAHATCHEE RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Ponce deLeon Inlet Lighthouse Preservation Association Inc ↗
- Who funds St Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum ↗
- Who funds Cape Canaveral Lighthouse Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE LIGHTHOUSE ASSN INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EGMONT KEY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL HISTORICAL MUSEUM & VILLAGE 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.
Open a dossier: Florida Humanities Council Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Florida Lighthouse Association Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Loxahatchee River Historical Society Inc — 6% 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.