· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| DOGS INC | $20,000 |
| EASTER SEALS OF SW FLORIDA | $20,000 |
| UNC CHAPEL HILL OFFICE OF DEVELOPME | $18,600 |
| NIK WALLENDA FAMILY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| JACK & JILL LATE STAGE CANCER FOUND | $15,000 |
| SPARCC | $10,000 |
| TURNING POINTS | $10,000 |
| BAY PARK CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| MANATEE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NEW COLLEGE OF SARASOTA | $10,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +114% since the first grant, against +77% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $719k · revenue +296%
Chicago Zoological Society7× · 2018–2024 · $587k · revenue +57%- SGSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $165k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- AFAction For Mantasone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue -22% · 34% of their budget
- AFAMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +123%
MINORITIES IN SHARK SCIENCES INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $28k · revenue +111%
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.
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…
How this is measured
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 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.
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 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 Action For Mantas ↗
- Who funds ST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Bay Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MANATEE COUNTYINC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES 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 GOLD SHIELD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Adventure for All Corporation ↗
- Who funds GULF OF MEXICO ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CROSTHWAIT MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc ↗
- Who funds Theodore Roosevelt Association ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mote Scientific Foundation Inc Pratt funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mote Scientific Foundation Inc Pratt. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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