How much did SURFING'S EVOLUTION & PRESERVATION grant in FY2025?

Animals$1.3MRecreation & Sports$826kEnvironment$739kPublic Safety & Disaster$201kCommunity Improvement$137kArts & Culture$100kHuman Services$70kHealth$38kScience & Tech$28kOther$913k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

streetwavesmauioutfreeparticipantsyouth

2021

rescue educ

2022

rescue educ

2023

clean hydrationspace coastcampstreetwavesmauioutparticipants

2024

matanzaswastebeautificationitemslitter cleanupcleanconservation

2025

cleanresearchprotectioncampeducationstreetwavesmaui

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k15 grants · $109k
$10k–50k27 grants · $514k
$50k–250k4 grants · $389k

$13,000

Median grant

States reached

$24M

Total assets

Largest grants

FLORIDA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION INC$120,000
FLORIDA BEACH PATROL CHIEFS ASSOCIA$108,858
DROWN ZERO INTERNATIONAL$100,000
GUY HARVEY FOUNDATION$60,000
KEEP FLORIDA BEAUTIFUL$44,285
SPECIAL OLYMPICS$40,000
BLUE SCHOLARS INITIATIVE INC$35,000
FLORIDA SURF FILM FESTIVAL INC$30,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS OF CENTRAL FLORI$25,000
BEACHES GO GREEN$22,900
CLEARWATER MARINE AQUARIUM$22,125
BREVARD ZOO$22,000
BYRNE OCEAN CONSERVATION INC$21,000
MORAES INC$20,750
LOGGERHEAD MARINE LIFE CENTER INC$20,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.0M · 42 repeat orgs$388k to everyone else

42 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.0M

$276k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+43%

Still filing today

76%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentRecreation & SportsHealthAnimalsCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther

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

BZ
BREVARD ZOO
6× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +151%
FS
FLORIDA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION INC
4× · 2022–2025 · $349k · revenue +82%
SO
SPECIAL OLYMPICS
6× · 2020–2025 · $250k · revenue +42%

Funded once

FO
FRIENDS OF MANTANZASgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $34k · revenue +129%
SB
SATELLITE BEACH FIRE DEPT
one grant, 2024 · $28k
MO
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
one grant, 2023 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Symbioseas

Marine research

Science & Tech

Florida Ocean Clean Up Society Inc

Health

Florida Ocean Alliance Inc

Protect enhance Floridas coastal ocean resources

Science & Tech

Coastal Cleanup Corporation

Coastal habitat restoration and public education.

Environment

Sociedad Ambiente Marino

Environmental and water protect

Education

Coral Conservancy

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Save the Manatee Club Inc

Manatee protection and preservation.

Animals

Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc

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…

Environment

Marine Conservation Science Institute

Philanthropy

Ocean Matters

Marine education and service learning for teenagers.

Environment

Marine Preservation Society of the

The marine preservation society of the florida keys (mps) is a new nonprofit organization working to steward our beautiful florida keys waters. in an island chain boasting many marine organizations.

Environment

Save-a-Turtle Inc

To enhance and protect, through preservation and conservation, endangered and threatened sea turtle species and their habitat in the Florida Keys. We do this by patrolling and monitoring beaches during the nesting season, along with…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Resources Council of East Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Clearwater Marine Aquarium 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 18 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%2/65

the rest of the field

15%

6,966/47,979

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.

05the grantee network

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

48/48

Grantees still filing

36/48

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Animals$1,310,927Other$1,049,030Recreation & Sports$825,700Environment$738,928Public Safety & Disaster$201,000Community Improvement$137,495Arts & Culture$100,000

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.

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.

Keep America Beautiful IncCT19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Keep America Beautiful Inc · Community Foundation · Kimley-Horn Foundation · Bass Pro Shops & Cabelas Outdoor Fund · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Miami Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 organisation SURFING'S EVOLUTION & PRESERVATION 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

34get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: STEWARDS OF URBAN LAKES.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.6× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 862429519 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on STEWARDS OF URBAN LAKES, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 57% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Surfing's Evolution & Preservation?

Find your warmest path to Surfing's Evolution & Preservation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SURFING'S EVOLUTION & PRESERVATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Surfing's Evolution & Preservation?

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SURFING'S EVOLUTION & PRESERVATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Surfing's Evolution & Preservation?

More from the funding graph