· Private foundation
Mote Scientific Foundation Inc Pratt
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of MOTE SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATION INC PRATT’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $211k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $244k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOTE MARINE LABORATORY | $124,287 |
| FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FUND | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $59,911 |
| SUNCOAST WATERKEEPER | $37,045 |
| SARASOTA BAY WATCH | $25,314 |
| EASTER SEALS OF SW FLORIDA | $20,000 |
| DOGS INC | $20,000 |
| UNC CHAPEL HILL OFFICE OF DEVELOPME | $18,600 |
| JACK & JILL LATE STAGE CANCER FOUND | $15,000 |
| NIK WALLENDA FAMILY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| TURNING POINTS | $10,000 |
| GULF COAST CONSERVATION FD | $10,000 |
| SPARCC | $10,000 |
| BAY PARK CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| MANATEE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $205k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +114% since the first grant, against +77% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 4 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k 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
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $719k · revenue +282%
Chicago Zoological Society7× · 2018–2024 · $587k · revenue +57%- SGSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $165k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- AFAction For Mantasgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +49% · 34% of their budget
- AFAMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +123%
MINORITIES IN SHARK SCIENCES INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $28k · revenue +111%
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 mission of the foundation is to restore and protect america's everglades through its three programmatic pillars: science, advocacy and education. (continued on schedule o)
Marine research
In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…
To inspire and advance manatee conservation by partnering cooperatively in manatee rescue, rehabilitation, release, and monitoring efforts; improve understanding of manatee biology and health through scientific research; and promote…
Mission is to seek protection of land and water resources through restoration and conservation; and conducting education and outreach on the ecological and economic importance of natural lands. we protect land from development and protect…
To inspire environmental stewardship of florida's coastal ecosystems through education, research and advocacy.
To safeguard Florida's water, wildlife, and wild spaces by taking action today to prevent irreversible loss tomorrow.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Protect florida coastal ecosystem via education, research and community stewardship.
The mission of Ocean First Institute is ocean conservation through research and education. We work to deepen the natural connection between people and the ocean. We educate and empower people to understand the ocean is our life support…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Action for Mantas. 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 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 72 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 MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA OCEAN ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds MANATEE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOLPHIN BIOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SUNCOAST WATERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA BAY WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Action For Mantas ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Bay Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MANATEE COUNTYINC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Coalition on Homelessness dba Turning Points ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MINORITIES IN SHARK SCIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds GULF OF MEXICO ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GOLD SHIELD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Adventure for All Corporation ↗
- Who funds CROSTHWAIT MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc ↗
- Who funds Theodore Roosevelt Association ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · The Henry E Becker and Pauline S Becker Charitable Foundation · Msc Foundation Inc · Wilson - Wood Foundation Inc · The Tillie Jennie & Harold Schwartz Foundation Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Seidman Family 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 Mote Scientific Foundation Inc Pratt 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.
- National Marine Sanctuary Foundation — 88% of income from government
- Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — 23% of income from government
- Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc — 12% of income from government
- American Fisheries Society — 9% of income from government
- Oyster River Ecology Inc — 7% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children — 0% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs 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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