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Fluke Foundation at a glance

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Fluke Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$151k
Granted FY2023
18
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$59k
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 2023.

Animals$151kEnvironment$52kPhilanthropy$21kEmployment$4kFood & Nutrition$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kHealth$1kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0
02FY2023 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k16 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
$4,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WHALE TRUST$59,000
MARINE LIFE STUDIES$45,006
WYOMING WETLANDS SOCIETY$5,000
OCEAN ALLIANCE$5,000
PROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE$5,000
DOG IS MY COPILOT$5,000
NORTHERN ROCKIES CONSERVATION COOPERATIVE$5,000
JACKSON HOLE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE$4,000
THE COUGAR FUND$4,000
HOLE FOOD RESCUE$3,000
NATIVE AMERICAN JUMP START$2,500
PAWS OF JACKSON HOLE$2,000
JACKSON HOLE HIKEEMS FOUNDATION$1,500
TETON COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CLINIC$1,000
CLIMB WYOMING$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CLIMB WYOMING: $1k → 5%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$129k · 6 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$129k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+208%

Still filing today

83%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentAnimalsScience & TechFood & NutritionEmploymentPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • WHALE TRUST
    4× · 2018–2023 · $83k · revenue +100%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $22k · revenue +41%
  • OA
    Ocean Alliance Inc
    2× · 2021–2023 · $8k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • WA
    WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION GLOBAL GHOST GEAR INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • IW
    INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION
    one grant, 2021 · $500
  • ED
    ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $200 · revenue +208%
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.

1
Wyoming Wildlife Advocates

To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.

Animals
2
Wyoming Outdoor Council

The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.

Environment
3
Wyoming Wildlife Federation

Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.

Animals
4
Alaska Wildlife Alliance

Support ecosystem-based wildlife management by increasing public awareness of wildlife issues, responding to information requests, advocating for science-based wildlife habitat management through proposal and comment submissions, and…

Environment
5
Jackson Hole Wildlife Foundation

Jackson hole wildlife foundation advances wildlife conservation driven by science, collaboration, and a community of volunteers.

Animals
6
Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…

Environment
7
Montana Wildlife Federation

The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.

Animals
8
Galapagos Whale Shark Project
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9
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
10
The Whale Museum

The whale museum's mission is to promote stewardship of whales and the salish sea ecosystem through education and research.

Arts & Culture
11
Native Ecosystems Council

Promote wildlife habitat

Environment
12
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Protect Our Water Jackson Hole Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dog Is My Copilot. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
16/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WHALE TRUST: $83,000 · Science & TechWHALE TRUSTMARINE LIFE STUDIES: $45,006 · Science & TechMARINE LIFE STUDIESNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $22,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEF…Ocean Alliance Inc: $7,500 · EnvironmentOcean Alliance IncWyoming Wetland Society: $5,100 · EnvironmentWyoming Wetland Socie…PROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentPROTECT OUR WATER JAC…JACKSON HOLE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $4,000 · EnvironmentJACKSON HOLE CONSERVA…OCEAN CONSERVANCY: $10,000 · OtherOCEAN CONSE…Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative: $5,000 · OtherNorthern Ro…WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION GLOBAL GHOST GEAR INITIATIVE: $2,500 · OtherWORLD ANIMA…JACKSON HOLE SEARCH DOGS: $1,000 · OtherJACKSON HOLE JUGGERNAUTS: $1,000 · OtherTETON COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CLINIC: $1,000 · OtherJACKSON HOLE FIREEMS FOUNDATION: $1,500 · OtherJACKSON HOL…CLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING: $1,000 · Other+3 more: $1,200 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $20,800 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY …DOG IS MY COPILOT: $5,000 · AnimalsCOUGAR FUND INC: $4,000 · AnimalsPAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES: $2,000 · AnimalsVENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY: $1,500 · AnimalsHole Food Rescue: $3,000 · Food & NutritionNATIVE AMERICAN JUMP START: $2,500 · Employment
Science & Tech$128,006Environment$43,600Other$24,200Philanthropy$20,800Animals$12,500Food & Nutrition$3,000Employment$2,500

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 budgetWHALE TRUST: $83,000 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetMARINE LIFE STUDIES: $45,006 over 1y, 18% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $20,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOcean Alliance Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWyoming Wetland Society: $5,100 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNorthern Rockies Conservation Cooperative: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDOG IS MY COPILOT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJACKSON HOLE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOUGAR FUND INC: $4,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetHole Food Rescue: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN JUMP START: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJACKSON HOLE FIREEMS FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Community Foundation …The Brooks FoundationPatagoniaorgMorgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…
Community Foundation of Jackson HoleWY30.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · The Brooks Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving 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 Fluke Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fluke Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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.

    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 25 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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