Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC
CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,052,169 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,652,913). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.8M
- Funders on record
- 125
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $22M
What Cape Eleuthera Foundation Inc does
Mission
To provide charitable funding support for education, scientific research, community leadership, and sustainable technologies on the island of eleuthera and around the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Cape Eleuthera Foundation Inc. Provides staff and other financial assistance for the furtherance of education at the cape eluthera island school in cape eleuthera, bahamas. It supports program-based education, scientific research, community leadership, and scientific technologies. These programs offer students and staff a unique experience that connects them more intimately with their environment and on-going efforts for sustainable development and enviornmental stewardship in south eleuthera.
$2,474,720 spentof which $2,138,869 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,474,720.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $17M to $23M (+40%).
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.
95% of CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Will Nystrom
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 49 funders, grant income rose $525k → $1.2M.
31 of 125 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 125 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
CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
58% 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 CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 40% · 2019 21% · 2020 19% · 2021 36% · 2022 15% · 2023 22% — 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
29% of CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
55% of CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4.9M that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 25 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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
CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 798 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 798 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $189 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $189
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Cape Eleuthera Island School · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC?
- CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,052,169 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,652,913). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 125 organizations giving $11,052,169 in grants to CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC, 69 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,652,913 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 125 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