How much does Sea Turtle Conservancy give?

Sea Turtle Conservancy reported 42 itemized grants totaling $760,264, out of $819,839 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 55 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Sea Turtle Conservancy fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (19%), Housing & Shelter (17%), Science & Tech (14%).

Who are Sea Turtle Conservancy's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Loggerhead Marinelife Center Inc ($379k), Florida State University ($316k), University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc ($203k).

Does Sea Turtle Conservancy fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Sea Turtle Conservancy?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums Inc, Knopf Family Foundation Inc, Jacarlene Foundation.

Where is Sea Turtle Conservancy based?

Sea Turtle Conservancy is based in FL.

Sea Turtle Conservancy

Sea Turtle Conservancy at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· 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.

$820k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$88k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$1.4MHousing & Shelter$1.2MScience & Tech$1.0MCommunity Improvement$907kAnimals$865kRecreation & Sports$739kArts & Culture$432kEducation$202kOther$0

02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 42 grants below total $760,264, the rows itemized in this filing. The $819,839 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $59,575 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k17 grants · $109k
$10k–50k23 grants · $512k
$50k–250k2 grants · $139k

$14,712

Median grant

States reached

$9.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.6M · 87 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +39% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.6M

$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%

+39%

Still filing today

24%

10%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $206k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

AnimalsEnvironmentScience & TechArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

LM
LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $379k · revenue +38%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $203k · revenue +148%
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $166k · revenue +274%

Funded once

CR
CARIBBEAN RESORT CONDOMINIUM
one grant, 2019 · $68k
BC
BEACH COLONY ON NAVARRE WEST
one grant, 2019 · $57k
AH
Atlantic Hotel Group Assets LLC
one grant, 2022 · $42k

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.

04Its field

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 Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation Inc C/O James Bildner

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Anna Maria Island Turtle Watchinc

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…

Animals

Symbioseas

Marine research

Science & Tech

Coral Conservancy

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Panama City Beach Turtle Watch Inc

To protect threatened sea turtles on 17.5 miles of gulf beach in Bay County Florida.

Animals

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

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Sociedad Ambiente Marino

Environmental and water protection and education

Education

Marine Conservation Science Institute

Philanthropy

Sea Turtle Oversight Protection Inc

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…

Animals

Galapagos Whale Shark Project

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Flagler Turtle Patrol Inc

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.

Animals

National Marine Life Center Inc

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.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sea Turtle Preservation Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hidden Harbor Marine Environmental Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

34/34

Grantees still filing

28/34

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$5,223,540Animals$700,447Science & Tech$622,907Philanthropy$203,498Environment$139,107Education$130,649Recreation & Sports$111,031

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.

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.

American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums IncMD15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sea Turtle Conservancy funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sea Turtle Conservancy. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

14get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home