Florida · Nonprofit
Coastal Connections Inc
Coastal Connections Inc (Florida) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,369 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($66,950). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $277k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $246k
- Net assets
- $379k
What Coastal Connections Inc does
Mission
1 Research and Resuce- to save lives of sea turtles, 2 Sea Turtle Experieces- to connect people with conservation, 3Education and Outreach- to increase knowleadge and inspire change 4 Community- Driven Sustainability- to reduce loacal waste and pollutions, beach cleanups.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sea Turtle Conservation - Connecting with sea turtles in unique and memorable ways.
$61,816 spentof which $58,454 as grants$-3,362 earned by the program35% of program spendingVero Goes Zero - Community-driven sustainability making long lasting impacts.
$52,254 spentof which $56,914 as grants$4,660 earned by the program30% of program spendingEducation and Outreach - Teaching the community about marine conservation.
$25,945 spentof which $21,309 as grants$-4,636 earned by the program15% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 34,729, Grants and allocations 3,823, Revenue -30,906 General Program Program Service Expenses 0, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 See Attached Schedule
$34,729 spentof which $3,823 as grants$-30,906 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $174,744.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $138k to $246k (+78%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 18% · 2024 21% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of Coastal Connections Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $15k → $50k.
7 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 Coastal Connections Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
Coastal Connections Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
57% 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 Coastal Connections Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 66% · 2021 45% · 2022 30% · 2023 42% — 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
67% of Coastal Connections Inc's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 47% 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
57% of Coastal Connections 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 $107k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $140k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Coastal Connections Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Coastal Connections 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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Coastal Connections 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 Coastal Connections Inc?
- Coastal Connections Inc (Florida) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,369 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($66,950). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Coastal Connections Inc have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $246,369 in grants to Coastal Connections Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Coastal Connections Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $66,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Coastal Connections 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 17 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing