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Collier County Audubon Society Inc Audubon Western Everglades
Collier County Audubon Society Inc Audubon Western Everglades (Florida) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $535,547 to it, the largest being COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($97,932). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $378k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $536k
- Net assets
- $21k
What Collier County Audubon Society Inc Audubon Western Everglades does
Mission
The organization's mission is to promote an understanding of an interest in wildlife and the natural environment that supports it, and to further the cause of conservation of all natural resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization worked on the following conservation projects during the year: Everglades Restoration including Picayune Strand Restoration; Wetland conservation in the Northern Everglades; Kissimmee River and Fisheating Creek; Water Quality Restoration in the Everglades; speaking for SW Florida Watershed Council; Working on the Florida Panther Project for panther habitat and protection. The organization worked on the development of wildlife corridors for South Florida. The organization helped develop a land use program for Hendry County. The organization worked on the SW Florida Shorebird Stewardship Project; litigation defending Lee County's density reduction/groundwater resource area; successfully opposed three rock mining applications near Corkscrew Swamp; revision of State and Federal wetland permitting rules; advocated public land management in Big Cypress Natural Preserve; and served on Babcock Ranch Management Advisory Board.
$262,765 spent82% of program spendingThe organization provides members a newsletter containing information on programs, field trips, conservation news, and other activities. The organization held 5 adult birding trips to various local habitats, each lead by birding expert. The organization held various programs during the year on topics such as burrowing owls, gopher tortoises, green herons, right whales, climate change and native plants.
$56,348 spent$22,767 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $319,113.
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 2018 to 2019, from $67k to $36k (−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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of Collier County Audubon Society Inc Audubon Western Everglades’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. 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $33k → $69k.
6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $680k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Collier County Audubon Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Collier County Audubon Society Inc Audubon Western Everglades raised.
From the IRS filings of Collier County Audubon Society Inc Audubon Western Everglades’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
Collier County Audubon Society Inc Audubon Western Everglades has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
65% 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 Collier County Audubon Society Inc Audubon Western Everglades.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 33% · 2019 27% · 2020 31% · 2021 40% · 2022 61% · 2023 27% — 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 Collier County Audubon Society Inc Audubon Western Everglades's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
54% of Collier County Audubon Society Inc Audubon Western Everglades'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 $247k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $288k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Collier County Audubon Society Inc Audubon Western Everglades's revenue grew 54% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Collier County Audubon Society Inc Audubon Western Everglades
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
83% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Collier County Audubon Foundation Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Collier County Audubon Society Inc Audubon Western Everglades?
- Collier County Audubon Society Inc Audubon Western Everglades (Florida) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $535,547 to it, the largest being COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($97,932). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Collier County Audubon Society Inc Audubon Western Everglades have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $535,547 in grants to Collier County Audubon Society Inc Audubon Western Everglades, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Collier County Audubon Society Inc Audubon Western Everglades?
- COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $97,932 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Collier County Audubon Society Inc Audubon Western Everglades 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.
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 22 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