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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.

$385k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Arts & Culture$607kEnvironment$381kRecreation & Sports$200kPublic Safety & Disaster$110kEducation$29kCommunity Improvement$10k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $350k
$75,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$611k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
City of Fernandina Beach$125,000
Barrier Island Parks Society$75,000
Ponce de Leon Inlet LH Preservation Assoc$75,000
Mayport Lighthouse Association Inc$75,000
St Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum$35,352
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 43% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%St Augustine LH & Maritime Museum Inc: $50k → 6%City of Fernandina Beach: $125k → 7%Cape Canaveral LH Foundation Inc: $23k → 10%Loxahatchee River Historical Society Inc: $35k → 10%City of Sanibel: $110k → 11%St Marks Lighthouse: $14k → 12%Ponce de Leon Inlet LH Preservation Assoc: $75k → 12%Egmont Key Alliance: $10k → 13%Friends of Cape Florida Inc: $200k → 15%Pensacola LH Association: $118k → 16%Carrabelle Lighthouse Association Inc: $25k → 18%University of Florida Foundation: $29k → 19%St Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum: $35k → 6%AMELIA ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE: $66k → 7%Cape Canaveral Lighthouse Foundation: $15k → 10%Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse & Museum: $30k → 10%Barrier Island Parks Society Inc: $86k → 11%Ponce Inlet LH Preservation Assoc Inc: $60k → 12%Egmont Key Alliance: $2k → 13%Pensacola Lighthouse Association: $25k → 16%ST GEORGE LIGHTHOUSE ASSOC: $24k → 18%St Augustine LH & Maritime Museum Inc: $30k → 6%Cape Canveral LH Foundation Inc: $6k → 10%Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse & Museum: $24k → 10%Barrier Island Parks Society: $75k → 11%PONCE INLET LIGHTHOUSE ASSOC: $58k → 12%St George Lighthouse Association Inc: $10k → 18%St Augustine LH & Maritime Museum: $22k → 6%Loxahatchee River Historical Society: $22k → 10%Barrier Island Parks Society: $48k → 11%Ponce Inlet LH Preservation Assoc: $45k → 12%Barrier Island Parks Society Inc: $45k → 11%Barrier Island Parks Society Inc: $34k → 11%Port Boca Grande Lighthouse: $30k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 9% of Florida Lighthouse Association Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 94%.

Florida Lighthouse Association Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.4% 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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$862k · 7 repeat orgs$860k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
12

Total granted

$862k
$585k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+0%
+62%

Still filing today

100%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsEducationOther
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

  • PL
    PENSACOLA LIGHTHOUSE ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2019–2023 · $143k · revenue +9%
  • SA
    St Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum
    4× · 2021–2025 · $137k · revenue +0%
  • LR
    LOXAHATCHEE RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $111k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CAPE FLORIDA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue -81% · 73% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $110k
  • AI
    AMELIA ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE
    one grant, 2020 · $66k
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.

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Grand Banks Schooner Museum Trust
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2
Fairport Harbor Historical Society

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.

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3
Grand Lodge of Florida Museum & Library Inc
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4
Point Cabrillo Lightkeepers Association

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Saint Peters Landmark Preservation Trust
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7
Port Clinton Lighthouse Conservancy

To restore and maintain port clinton's historic pier head lighthouse and return it to the waterfront where it will be on permanent displaythe public.

Community Improvement
8
Pointe Aux Barques Lighthouse

Preservation of lighthouse and immediate grounds and educate the public on the lighthouse history.

Arts & Culture
9
Del Norte County Historical Society

The societys mission is to discover, collect, preserve and present the documents, structures, artifacts and ideas pertaining to the county and to provide suitable museums or homes for such items in order to maintain them as public…

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10
Hillsboro Lighthouse Preservation Society Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Friends of Rock Island State Park Inc

Operating and maintaining rock island state park

Recreation & Sports
12
Saugerties Lighthouse Conservancy I

To preserve the historical lighthouse

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Barrier Island Parks Society Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

City of Fernandina Beach: $125,000 · OtherCity of Fernandina BeachLOXAHATCHEE RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $111,280 · OtherLOXAHATCHEE RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCIndividual grant recipient: $110,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPonce deLeon Inlet Lighthouse Preservation Association Inc: $105,306 · OtherPonce deLeon Inlet Lighthouse Preservation Association …Mayport Lighthouse Association Inc: $75,000 · OtherMayport Lighthouse Association IncPonce de Leon Inlet LH Preservation Assoc: $75,000 · OtherPonce de Leon Inlet LH Preservation AssocAMELIA ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE: $65,500 · OtherAMELIA ISLAND LIGHTHOUSEPONCE INLET LIGHTHOUSE ASSOC: $58,050 · OtherPONCE INLET LIGHTHOUSE ASSOCSt Joe Historical Society: $38,000 · OtherPort Boca Grande Lighthouse: $30,000 · Other+4 more: $51,975 · Other+4 morePENSACOLA LIGHTHOUSE ASSOCIATION: $142,975 · Arts & CulturePENSACOLA LIGHTHOUSE AS…St Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum: $137,352 · Arts & CultureSt Augustine Lighthouse…Cape Canaveral Lighthouse Foundation Inc: $43,738 · Arts & CultureCape Canaveral Lighthou…ST GEORGE LIGHTHOUSE ASSN INC: $34,000 · Arts & CultureST GEORGE LIGHTHOUSE AS…+1 more: $2,244 · Arts & CultureBARRIER ISLAND PARKS SOCIETY INC: $287,690 · EnvironmentBARRIER ISLAND PAR…FRIENDS OF CAPE FLORIDA INC: $200,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF CA…THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $29,200 · Education
Other$845,111Arts & Culture$360,309Environment$287,690Recreation & Sports$200,000Education$29,200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBARRIER ISLAND PARKS SOCIETY INC: $287,690 over 5y, 14% of budgetFRIENDS OF CAPE FLORIDA INC: $200,000 over 1y, 73% of budgetPENSACOLA LIGHTHOUSE ASSOCIATION: $142,975 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetSt Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum: $137,352 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetLOXAHATCHEE RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $111,280 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetPonce deLeon Inlet Lighthouse Preservation Association Inc: $105,306 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCape Canaveral Lighthouse Foundation Inc: $43,738 over 3y, 22% of budgetST GEORGE LIGHTHOUSE ASSN INC: $34,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $29,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANIBEL HISTORICAL MUSEUM & VILLAGE INC: $2,244 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

Florida Humanities Co…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Florida Humanities Council IncFL17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Florida Humanities Council Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Florida Lighthouse Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Florida Lighthouse Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Loxahatchee River Historical Society Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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