· Public charity
Sea Turtle Conservancy
To ensure the survival of sea turtles within the wider Caribbean basin and Atlantic through research, education, training, advocacy, and protection of the natural habitats upon which they depend.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 42 grants below total $760,264 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $819,839 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $59,575 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
- Under $10k17 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $512k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $139k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Loggerhead Marine Life Center | $87,740 |
| Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc | $51,133 |
| Royal Seafarer Condo Apt of Marco I | $45,500 |
| Gulf Specimen Marine Lab Inc | $35,174 |
| Florida State Parks Found | $32,744 |
| The Florida Aquarium | $32,623 |
| University of Central Florida Resea | $31,763 |
| Florida Atlantic University | $29,749 |
| Zoo Miami Foundation | $28,889 |
| Florida State University | $27,453 |
| Wildlife Alert Reward Association | $25,000 |
| Mote Marine Laboratory Inc | $23,204 |
| Tiffany Place Condo Association In | $18,804 |
| Estero Bay Improvement Association | $18,433 |
| Gulfarium CARE Foundation | $17,968 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% 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.
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 +97% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
87 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 60 since wound down; 15 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $206k 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
- LMLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $379k · revenue +38%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $203k · revenue +148%
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $166k · revenue +260%
Funded once
- CRCARIBBEAN RESORT CONDOMINIUMone grant, 2019 · $68k
- BCBEACH COLONY ON NAVARRE WESTone grant, 2019 · $57k
- AHAtlantic Hotel Group Assets LLCone grant, 2022 · $42k
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.
Anna maria turtle watch monitors sea turtle activities and protects sea turtle nests along 12 miles of shoreline in manatee county. the organization also provides community outreach to educate the public related to the safety of sea…
Marine research
To protect threatened sea turtles on 17.5 miles of gulf beach in Bay County Florida.
Environmental and water protection and education
The purpose of Sea Turtle Oversight Protection, Inc., a Florida non-profit corporation, is to educate the public about marine turtle conservation efforts and the benefits of restoring the population of this endangered species. This…
To protect and conserve marine sea turtles and their nesting habitat through beach monitoring nest protection reporting and public stewardship activities in Flagler County Florida.
The national marine life center is dedicated to rehabilitating for release; stranded sea turtles, seals, dolphins, porpoises, and small whales, and to advancing scientific knowledge and education in marine wildlife health and conservation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sea Turtle Preservation Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nova Southeastern University 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 35 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.
34 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. 34 of the 180 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 LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds Inwater Research Group Inc ↗
- Who funds Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds GULFARIUM CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hidden Harbor Marine Environmental Project Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Florida Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds GULF SPECIMEN MARINE LABORATORIES INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE ALERT REWARD ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EAST COAST ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MARINE SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EAST COAST BIOLOGISTS 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: American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums Inc · Knopf Family Foundation Inc · Jacarlene Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Christopher Reeve Foundation · Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Sea Turtle Conservancy 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.
- University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
- Alachua Conservation Trust Inc — 5% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation — 4% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sea Turtle Conservancy — 1% of income from government
- Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
- East Coast Zoological Society of Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- East Coast Biologists Inc — 0% of income from government
- Zoo Miami Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Florida Aquarium 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.