· Private foundation
Folke Peterson Wildlife Center Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $144k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLORIDA WILDLIFE HOSPITAL | $12,500 |
| FLORIDA KEYS SPCA | $10,500 |
| THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY | $10,500 |
| MIAMI CHILDENS MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| ABANDONED PET RESCUE | $10,000 |
| THE KEY WEST WILDLIFE CENTER | $10,000 |
| DOLPHIN RESEARCH CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| WHISKERS AWAY INC | $10,000 |
| GUARDIANS OF FLORIDA ANIMAL RESCUE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| TOMORROWS RAINBOW INC | $10,000 |
| EVERGLADES ANGELS DOG RESCUE | $10,000 |
| CANINE ASSISTED THERAPY | $10,000 |
| HONEYS MINI THERAPY ADVENTURES | $10,000 |
| LOGGERHEAD MARINE CENTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 5% of Folke Peterson Wildlife Center 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.
30 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- DRDOLPHIN RESEARCH CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $82k · revenue +15%
KEY WEST WILDLIFE CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +172%- FKFLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $76k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- EAEQUINE ASSISTED THERAPIES OF STH FLone grant, 2018 · $10k
- IHI HEART ANIMAL RESCUE INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -68%
- EAEQUINE ASSISTED THERAPIES OF S FLOone grant, 2019 · $10k
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 assist in the medical care, misc care and rehoming of animals that do not have a home
An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.
beagle rescue
Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.
Rescue rehab and rehome dogs and horses in need. We rescue them from auction shelters the streets etc.
Animal Welfare
To help rescue unwanted pets
Animal welfare we are a Boxer Rescue that our purpose is to get all surrendered boxers rehabbed and vetted all shots training and other services they need before adopting them to their forever home
Animal Welfare
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Everglades Angels Dog Rescue Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tomorrow's Rainbow Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 49 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 DOLPHIN RESEARCH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds TOMORROW'S RAINBOW INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE ASSISTED THERAPY INC ↗
- Who funds Equine Assisted Therapies of South Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds ABANDONED PET RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds HONEYS MINI THERAPY ADVENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds TRI COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA WILDLIFE HOSPITAL & SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds EVERGLADES ANGELS DOG RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Whiskers Away Inc ↗
- Who funds McCarthys Wildlife Sanctuary Inc ↗
- Who funds Vinceremos Riding Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HOLLYDOGS GREYHOUND ADOPTION INC ↗
- Who funds I HEART ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Good Karma Pet Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds Guardians of Florida Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Rescue Force of South Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds ELITE GREYHOUND ADOPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Hospitality Helping Hands ↗
- Who funds Pet Haven Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH PARROT RESCUE 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.
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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 Folke Peterson Wildlife Center 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum — 0% of income from government
- Dolphin Research Center 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.
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