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1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC
1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 112 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,662,074 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($441,830). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 112
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What 1000 Friends of Florida Inc does
Mission
Our mission is Building Better Communities and Saving Special Places to enhance the quality of life for current and future Floridians.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
EDUCATION: Citizen involvement is at the heart of all we do. We conduct regular webinars on Florida-specific planning, conservation and policy topics reaching more than 6,000 participants a year. We prepare reader-friendly newsletter and special reports on Floridas planning process. We regularly highlight important issues through our email contact list of 20,000 addresses and our social media platforms. Through projects like Sea Level 2040/2070 and Agriculture 2040/2070, we share projections of what our state will look like if current patterns of development continue and provide sustainable alternatives.
$217,014 spent$25,185 earned by the program25% of program spendingBUILDING BETTER COMMUNITIES: 1000 Friends advocates community-driven approaches to encourage compact, energy-efficient urban design. These include alternative means of transportation, quality infill development, affordable housing and strategies to help Floridians age in place. We apromote revitalized downtowns and waterfront communities, walkable neighborhoods, protection of historic places, and strategies to address climate change and sea level rise.
$386,436 spent$162,657 earned by the program44% of program spendingSAVING SPECIAL PLACES: 1000 Friends is a recognized leader in protecting Floridas unique and distinctive resources. We back major statewide initiatives to conserve sensitive natural lands and waters through land conservation programs, greenways protection, springs and springshed initiatives, Everglades restoration efforts, and planning strategies to protect natural areas from inappropriately placed and poorly designed development. We also encourage local land conservation and water protection initiatives. We understand That a strong natural environment is Floridas best economic develoment tool.
$182,001 spent$273,852 earned by the program21% of program spendingADVOCACY: Since 1986, 1000 Friends has been leading the way to a more sustainable future for Florida. We educate, advocate, negotiate and, when necessary, litigate to protect our quality of life. We also advocate on behalf of citizens in the halls of the legislature, promoting sound legislation to build better communities and save special places while blocking damaging
$86,294 spent$8,666 earned by the program10% of program spendinglegislation. To promote sound public policy, we also serve on state boards and committees and provide guidance on sustainability practices.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $871,745.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $2.8M to $4.2M (+47%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
97% of 1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Susan Trevarthen
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 53 funders, grant income rose $73k → $349k.
9 of 112 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of 1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 112 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
35% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund 1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 30% · 2019 26% · 2020 16% · 2021 19% · 2022 51% · 2023 12% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
55% of 1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
60% of 1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $840k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like 1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds 1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC?
- 1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 112 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,662,074 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($441,830). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does 1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC have?
- IRS filings report 112 organizations giving $2,662,074 in grants to 1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC, 77 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $441,830 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 112 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing