· Private foundation
River Branch Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+12 grants · $9.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CONSERVATION FUND | $2,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION | $1,060,000 |
| TAOS LAND TRUST | $1,020,000 |
| AUDUBON FLORIDA | $1,000,000 |
| HUNTERDON LAND TRUST | $1,000,000 |
| ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST | $620,000 |
| JACKSONVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| NATURECONNECT FLORIDA | $500,000 |
| ECOFLIGHT | $430,000 |
| WJCT INC | $400,000 |
| ST JOHN'S RIVERKEEPER | $300,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| 1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA | $230,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA | $200,000 |
| EVERGLADES FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $260k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +55% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 13 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, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.7M 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
- VSVERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $5.9M · revenue +120% · 39% of their budget
- NFNORTH FLORIDA LAND TRUST INC5× · 2017–2021 · $2.9M · revenue +67% · 52% of their budget
- ACALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC3× · 2022–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +55%
Funded once
- GGREENSCAPEone grant, 2024 · $525k
THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INCone grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue -18%- CCCHATHAM CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue -40% · 60% of their budget
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.
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…
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…
Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…
Archbold expeditions, inc.'s mission is to build and share the scientific knowledge needed to protect the life, lands, and waters of the heart of florida and beyond.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Conservation florida's mission is to permanently protect florida's water, wildlife, and wild places - the places that make florida home.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
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…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To safeguard Florida's water, wildlife, and wild spaces by taking action today to prevent irreversible loss tomorrow.
Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Natureconnect Florida Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 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 2% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 59 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 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH FLORIDA LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JACKSONVILLE ARBORETUM & BOTANICAL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TAOS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds HUNTERDON LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds ST JOHNS RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds ECOFLIGHT ↗
- Who funds WJCT INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATURECONNECT FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds 1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Plant a Million Corals Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL PARK ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC ↗
- Who funds THE EARTH CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST FLORIDA JOURNALISM COLLECTIVE 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 Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Jwb Cares Inc · The Maryellen S Willis Charitable Trust · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Hicks Charitable Foundation · The Schultz Foundation Inc · The Haskell Foundation · Felburn Foundation · Csx Foundation Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida 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 River Branch 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.
- Raritan Headwaters Association — 94% of income from government
- North Florida Land Trust Inc — 81% of income from government
- Hunterdon Land Trust — 48% of income from government
- Hubbard House Inc — 42% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc — 6% of income from government
- Alachua Conservation Trust Inc — 5% of income from government
- Life Camp Inc — 4% of income from government
- Groundwork Jacksonville Inc — 3% of income from government
- Vermont Studio Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- New Jersey Audubon Society — 1% of income from government
- Clara White Mission Inc — 1% of income from government
- Florida Oceanographic Society 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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