· Private foundation
Folke Peterson Wildlife Center Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $144k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLORIDA WILDLIFE HOSPITAL | $12,500 |
| THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY | $10,500 |
| FLORIDA KEYS SPCA | $10,500 |
| WHISKERS AWAY INC | $10,000 |
| MIAMI CHILDENS MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| GUARDIANS OF FLORIDA ANIMAL RESCUE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| TOMORROWS RAINBOW INC | $10,000 |
| ABANDONED PET RESCUE | $10,000 |
| THE KEY WEST WILDLIFE CENTER | $10,000 |
| DOLPHIN RESEARCH CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| HONEYS MINI THERAPY ADVENTURES | $10,000 |
| EVERGLADES ANGELS DOG RESCUE | $10,000 |
| CANINE ASSISTED THERAPY | $10,000 |
| LOGGERHEAD MARINE CENTER | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of Folke Peterson Wildlife Center 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%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- IHI HEART ANIMAL RESCUE INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -68%
- EAEQUINE ASSISTED THERAPIES OF STH FLone grant, 2018 · $10k
- EAEQUINE ASSISTED THERAPIES OF S FLOone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 49 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 McCarthys Wildlife Sanctuary Inc ↗
- Who funds Whiskers Away Inc ↗
- Who funds HOLLYDOGS GREYHOUND ADOPTION INC ↗
- Who funds Vinceremos Riding Center 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Knopf Family Foundation Inc · Florida Panthers Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Broward Inc · American Express Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Folke Peterson Wildlife Center Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Folke Peterson Wildlife Center Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum: 0% of income from government
- Dolphin Research Center Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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