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The Everglades Foundation Inc

The mission of the foundation is to restore and protect america's everglades through its three programmatic pillars: science, advocacy and education. (continued on schedule o)

$1.9M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
18
Itemized grants FY2025
19
Organizations funded FY2024
16%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$1.8M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$471,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 20
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$69M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations The Everglades Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $486k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving17$1.8M29%
FY202419$1.7M16%
FY202320$1.4M55%
FY202217$1.2M41%
FY20219$935k0%
FY202011$1.1M9%
FY201814$1.2M0%
FY201714$1.3Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$9.7MAnimals$490kEducation$423kPublic Benefit$40k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
CA
VA
NC
SC
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Florida Audubon Society Inc$1,662,500599%
National Parks Conservation Association$1,265,00081%
Everglades Law Center Inc$1,162,650861%
National Audubon Society Inc$908,13430%
The Everglades Trust Inc$907,0002100%
Tropical Audubon Society Inc$625,915727%
National Wildlife Federation$621,98180%
Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation$460,11181%
Florida International University$357,5343n/a
Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc$330,00081%
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All grantees of The Everglades Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Florida Audubon Society Inc$1,662,500599%
National Parks Conservation Association$1,265,00081%
Everglades Law Center Inc$1,162,650861%
National Audubon Society Inc$908,13430%
The Everglades Trust Inc$907,0002100%
Tropical Audubon Society Inc$625,915727%
National Wildlife Federation$621,98180%
Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation$460,11181%
Florida International University$357,5343n/a
Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc$330,00081%
Florida Oceanographic Society Inc$305,00083%
Captains for Clean Water Inc$250,500510%
Sierra Club$240,00020%
Florida International University Foundation Inc$218,34430%
Florida Bay Forever Inc$183,0005n/a
The Conservancy of Southwest Florida$180,00041%
Florida Wildlife Federation$165,0002n/a
University of Florida$80,0002n/a
Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc$66,50030%
Tropical Audobon Society$60,0001n/a
Museum of Discovery and Science Inc$50,00010%
International Game Fish Association Inc$50,00021%
Florida Press Association Inc$40,00018%
The University of Florida Foundation Inc$34,50020%
Florida Atlantic University$33,6001n/a
Cornell University$30,00010%
University of Central Florida$30,0001n/a
Florida State University$30,0001n/a
Georgia Southern University Research and Service Foundationinc$30,00010%
Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc$28,25010%
Regents of the University of California$25,0001n/a
Sanibel Captiva Islands Chamber of Commerce Inc$25,00015%
East Carolina University$25,0001n/a
1000 Friends of Florida Inc$25,00012%
University of Miami$25,00010%
Coastal Carolina University Research Foundation$25,000190%
University of California Davis$24,2951n/a
Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc$22,50020%
Florida Gulf Coast University$18,8001n/a
Miss Florida Scholarship Program Inc$15,00024%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($31k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Everglades Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFlorida Audubon Society Inc: $1,662,500 over 5y, 99% of budgetNational Parks Conservation Association: $1,265,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetEverglades Law Center Inc: $1,162,650 over 8y, 61% of budgetNational Audubon Society Inc: $908,134 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Everglades Trust Inc: $907,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetTropical Audubon Society Inc: $625,915 over 7y, 27% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $621,981 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation: $460,111 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetTheodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc: $330,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetFlorida Oceanographic Society Inc: $305,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetCaptains for Clean Water Inc: $250,500 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetSierra Club: $240,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFlorida International University Foundation Inc: $218,344 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Conservancy of Southwest Florida: $180,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetFlorida Atlantic University Foundation Inc: $66,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Discovery and Science Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetInternational Game Fish Association Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFlorida Press Association Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetThe University of Florida Foundation Inc: $34,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Southern University Research and Service Foundationinc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFlorida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc: $28,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSanibel Captiva Islands Chamber of Commerce Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budget1000 Friends of Florida Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoastal Carolina University Research Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 90% of budgetBonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc: $22,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMiss Florida Scholarship Program Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About The Everglades Foundation Inc

How much does The Everglades Foundation Inc give?
The Everglades Foundation Inc reported 18 itemized grants totaling $1,790,848, out of $1,887,670 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does The Everglades Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (91%), Animals (5%), Education (4%).
Who are The Everglades Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Florida Audubon Society Inc ($1.7M), National Parks Conservation Association ($1.3M), Everglades Law Center Inc ($1.2M).
Does The Everglades Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Everglades Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Everglades Foundation Inc based?
The Everglades Foundation Inc is based in FL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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