· Public charity
Ocean Reef Conservation Association Inc
To protect and preserve the environment, fish, wildlife and marine related areas including water quality and habitat.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $401,958 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $471,258 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $69,300 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k13 grants · $252k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC | $100,000 |
| FRIENDS OF JOHN PENNEKAMP CORAL REEF STATE PARK | $50,000 |
| THE ALLIANCE FOR FLORIDA'S NATIONAL PARKS TRUST INC | $40,000 |
| CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
| MARINE RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $26,458 |
| AUDUBON FLORIDA | $25,000 |
| KEY WEST AND LOWER KEYS GUIDES ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC | $20,000 |
| MARINE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF THE FLORIDA KEYS INC | $20,000 |
| FLORIDA KEYS WILD BIRD REHABILITATION CENTER INC | $20,000 |
| COASTLOVE INC | $10,500 |
| FRIENDS & VOLUNTEERS OF REFUGES-FLORIDA KEY INC | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of your 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 +67% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
- TCTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $283k · revenue +213%
- TATHE ALLIANCE FOR FLORIDA'S NATIONAL PARKS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $141k · revenue +14%
- FOFRIENDS OF JOHN PENNEKAMP CORAL REEF STATE PARK4× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +15% · 46% of their budget
Funded once
- EOEVERGLADES OUTPOST INCone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -23%
- TATROPICAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -14%
- GTGuides Trust Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +131%
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.
Marine research
Environmental and water protection and education
Dedicated to the conservation and preservation of the waters in and around south florida through wise fishery & watermanagement practices, while recognizing the importance of sport fishing to the local economy and the cultural heritage of…
To safeguard Florida's water, wildlife, and wild spaces by taking action today to prevent irreversible loss tomorrow.
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…
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…
Environmental conservation for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reef Environmental Education Foundation and the most unlike its peers is National Audubon Society Inc. 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 31 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 24 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 BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR FLORIDA'S NATIONAL PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JOHN PENNEKAMP CORAL REEF STATE PARK ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Florida Keys Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MARINE RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FISH & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA I ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA KEYS HISTORY AND DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF THE FLORIDA KEYS INC ↗
- Who funds Key West and Lower Keys Fishing Guides Association Inc ↗
- Who funds EVERGLADES OUTPOST INC ↗
- Who funds TROPICAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Guides Trust Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS AND VOLUNTEERS OF REFUGES FLORIDA KEY INC ↗
- Who funds Reef Relief Inc ↗
- Who funds SEREIA FILMS INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN STUDIES CHARTER SCHOOL 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: The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Bass Pro Shops & Cabelas Outdoor Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Ocean Reef Conservation Association Inc 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
- The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc — 16% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I — 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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