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Green Coasts Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$57k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Animals$37kReligion$15kEnvironment$9kHousing & Shelter$2kInternational$2kHuman Services$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$4,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Raise the Roof Academy$11,753
Nashville Wildlife Conservation$5,000
Waldens Puddle Wildlife Rehabilita$4,500
Pacific Whale Foundation$4,150
Owl's Hill Nature Sanctuary$4,100
The Nature Conservancy$4,060
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge$4,000
Navarre Beach Sea Turtle Conservati$4,000
Elephant Sanctuary Tennessee$3,000
ANIMAL RESCUE ASSISTANCE TEAM TN$2,500
2011 Verona Caney Road$2,078
BETTER OPTIONS TN$2,000
World Wildlife Fund$2,000
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 (FY24–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BETTER OPTIONS TN: $2k → 4%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 7% of Green Coasts Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Green Coasts Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.7% 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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$35k · 5 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$35k
$12k

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentReligionPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • RT
    RAISE THE ROOF ACADEMY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue -4%
  • NB
    NAVARRE BEACH SEA TURTLE CONSERVATION CENTER INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +4%
  • PW
    PACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue -48%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
  • 2W
    2024 WORLD WILDLIFE FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • NF
    NTIBONERA FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
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
Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals
2
Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc

The mission of the Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa a/k/a ZooTampa at Lowry Park, is to rescue, rehabilitate and care for animals.(Expanded mission on Schedule O)ZooTampa creates exceptional personalized experiences that connect…

Animals
3
The Conservancy of Southwest Florida

We are a grassroots organization focused on the critical environmental issues of sw florida. we accomplish this through a myriad of efforts by the teams in our programmatic departments: science, policy, education and wildlife…

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4
Wildlife Alliance Inc

Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…

Animals
5
Wildlife Voice Inc

Wildlife voice inc. protects wildlife and their habitats by advancing conservation, environmental education, and community engagement, ensuring the survival of species and the long-term health of ecosystems.

Animals
6
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
7
Tidewater Rehabilitation & Environmental Education

Tidewater Rehabilitation and Environmental Education's purpose is to provide medical, rehabilitative, and foster care to native wildlife species and to provide education to the public in matters pertaining to native wildlife.

Animals
8
Maine Audubon Society

Maine Audubon works to conserve Maine's wildlife and habitat by engaging people of all ages in education, conservation, and action. We are helping the people of Maine become the nation's most informed and effective stewards of wildlife and…

Environment
9
Conservation Society of California

Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.

Animals
10
Audubon Nature Institute Inc

Operation of museums and parks dedicated to nature on behalf of the City of New Orleans.

Animals
11
National Wildlife Federation

Unite all americans to ensure wildlife thrives in a rapidly changing world.

Animals
12
African Wildlife Foundation Inc

Awf's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern africa. we work to equip african governments, institutions, business, and communities with the tools, insights, and support they need to define, own, and realize a…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee; the most unlike its peers is Better Options Tn. 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 18 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $7,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,060 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYIndividual grant recipient: $4,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientANIMAL RESCUE ASSISTANCE TEAM TN: $2,500 · OtherANIMAL RESCUE ASSISTANCE TEAM TN2011 Verona Caney Road: $2,078 · Other2011 Verona Caney Road2024 WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: $2,000 · Other2024 WORLD WILDLIFE FUNDNTIBONERA FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · OtherNTIBONERA FOUNDATION INCWALDENS PUDDLE WILDLIFE REHAB: $1,000 · OtherNAVARRE BEACH SEA TURTLE CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $6,000 · AnimalsNAVARRE BEACH SEA TURTLE CONSERVAT…OWL'S HILL NATURE SANCTUARY: $5,100 · AnimalsOWL'S HILL NATURE SANCTUARYWALDENS PUDDLE WILDLIFE REHABILITATION & EDUCATIO: $4,500 · AnimalsWALDENS PUDDLE WILDLIFE REHABILITA…EMERALD COAST WILDLIFE REFUGE INC: $4,000 · AnimalsEMERALD COAST WILDLIFE REFUGE INCTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $4,000 · AnimalsTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSE…RAISE THE ROOF ACADEMY: $14,753 · ReligionRAISE THE ROOF ACADEM…PACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION: $5,150 · EnvironmentPACIFIC WH…WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILD…NASHVILLE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER: $5,000 · PhilanthropyBetter Options TN: $2,000 · Human Services
Other$25,638Animals$23,600Religion$14,753Environment$7,150Philanthropy$5,000Human Services$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRAISE THE ROOF ACADEMY: $14,753 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNAVARRE BEACH SEA TURTLE CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION: $5,150 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOWL'S HILL NATURE SANCTUARY: $5,100 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,060 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWALDENS PUDDLE WILDLIFE REHABILITATION & EDUCATIO: $4,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEMERALD COAST WILDLIFE REFUGE INC: $4,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBetter Options TN: $2,000 over 1y, 2.1% 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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Green Coasts Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Green Coasts Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Green Coasts Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Green Coasts Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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