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Lat Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+9 grants · $6.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC | $1,502,898 |
| SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $1,502,368 |
| CROW | $1,001,516 |
| BIG ARTS | $1,001,516 |
| SANIBEL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC | $500,509 |
| SOUTHWEST FLORIDA SYMPHONY | $350,000 |
| FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC | $350,000 |
| SANIBEL HISTORICAL MUSEUM & VILLAGE | $250,000 |
| FLORIDA REPERTORY THEATRE | $250,000 |
| SANIBEL MUSIC FESTIVAL | $200,000 |
| GULF COAST SYMPHONY | $150,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR THE ARTS | $150,000 |
| FORT MYERS SYMPHONIC CHORUS INC | $150,000 |
| SANIBEL CONGREGATIONAL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST | $150,000 |
| CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $385k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +42%
DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC4× · 2017–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +56% · 27% of their budget- CFCLINIC FOR THE REHABILITATION OF WILDLIFE INC3× · 2017–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +131% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- SFSOUTHWEST FLORIDA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAone grant, 2020 · $36k
- CFCLINIC FOR THE REHABILITATION OF WILDLIFEone grant, 2020 · $23k
- GLGLADIOLUS LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
The orchestra is dedicated to bringing orchestral music of the highest caliber to south florida. its mission is to delight, inspire and educate the communities we serve through music.
Community orchestra
The advancement of marine and environmental sciences through scientific research, education and public outreach, leading new discoveries, revitalization and sustainability of our oceans and greater public understanding of our marine…
Please refer to schedule o for the organization's complete mission statement.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
The texas state aquarium's mission is engaging people with animals, inspiring appreciation for our seas, and supporting wildlife conservation. its vision is to be a global leader in fostering support for the conservation of the gulf of…
Present the world's greatest musical artists in chamber music concerts of classical and alternative genres for diverse audiences. offer music education to concert attendees, students, and aspiring young musicians.
Marine research
Prepares gifted graduates of prestigious music programs for successful careers in orchestras and ensembles.
The salish sea schools mission is to awaken curiosity and deepen connections with the sea through shore and sea exploration programs for all ages.
The mission of lyrica baroque is to support a diverse community of students, teachers, artists, institutions and audiences of all ages through education, collaboration and performance. lyrica baroque seeks to promote the extraordinary…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gladiolus Learning and Development Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 28 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 SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CLINIC FOR THE REHABILITATION OF WILDLIFE INC ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST FLORIDA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL HISTORICAL MUSEUM & VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Fort Myers Symphonic Chorus Inc ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds LEE COUNTY ALLIANCE FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Community Housing and Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds SYMPHONIC CHORALE OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds FORT MYERS COMMUNITY CONCERT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLADIOLUS LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL SEA SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION 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.
Open a dossier: Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · Charitable Foundation of the Islands Inc · Eugene Holt Massey Charitable Trust · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Lat Foundation 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.
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation — 4% of income from government
- Lee County Alliance for the Arts Inc — 1% 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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