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FLAMINGO GARDENS INC

FLAMINGO GARDENS INC (Florida) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,220,573 to it, the largest being THE BATCHELOR FOUNDATION INC ($990,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$7.1M
Funders on record
41
Grants received
$4.2M
Net assets
$6.4M
28/41 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Flamingo Gardens Inc does

Mission

To depict and preserve the natural and cultural heritage of south florida and the everglades in or botanical gardens and wildlife sanctuaries.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Gardens and exhibits: care and maintenance of the wray botanical collection containing over 3000 species of tropical and subtropical plants and trees, the everglades wildlife sanctuary with over 400 florida native birds and animals representing 85+ species, and the wray home museum depicting a typical florida home of the 1930s.

    $3,313,045 spent$13,393 earned by the program
    62% of program spending
  2. Admissions: oversees entry of the over 105,000 visitors to flamingo gardens annually, including group tours and narrated tram tours, as well as ticket sales, memberships and donations.

    $616,384 spent$3,334,869 earned by the program
    12% of program spending
  3. Education: provides educational class field trips to over 28,000 children every year from schools and camps, and provides adult education classes such as bonsai, painting and drawing classes.

    $359,966 spent$294,041 earned by the program
    7% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $1,067,000 spent$1,142,960 earned by the program
    20% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,356,395.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.2M) Expenses 100 ($3.0M) Net assets 100 ($613k)2018 Revenue 114 ($3.7M) Expenses 106 ($3.2M) Net assets 178 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 134 ($4.3M) Expenses 123 ($3.7M) Net assets 279 ($1.7M)2020 Revenue 112 ($3.6M) Expenses 94 ($2.8M) Net assets 406 ($2.5M)2021 Revenue 163 ($5.2M) Expenses 126 ($3.8M) Net assets 642 ($3.9M)2022 Revenue 193 ($6.2M) Expenses 164 ($4.9M) Net assets 852 ($5.2M)2023 Revenue 189 ($6.1M) Expenses 193 ($5.8M) Net assets 896 ($5.5M)2024 Revenue 205 ($6.6M) Expenses 212 ($6.4M) Net assets 928 ($5.7M)2025 Revenue 222 ($7.1M) Expenses 212 ($6.4M) Net assets 1051 ($6.4M)
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Revenue (222)Expenses (212)Net assets (1051)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.8M to $4.8M (+71%).

$1.1M
$1.6M
$2.2M
$2.8M
$4.8M
$6.1M
$6.5M
$6.5M
$7.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 2% · 2023 6% · 2024 4% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

29% of FLAMINGO GARDENS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,657 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$206k
’17
$480k
’18
$614k
’19
$782k
’20
$1.4M
’21
$1.3M
’22
$267k
’23
$197k
’24
$755k
’25
4.4
months of
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.

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Listed96910101010107
Joined·+0+3+1+0+2+0+0+0
No longer listed·30002003
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $20k → $633k.

6 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 FLAMINGO GARDENS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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

FLAMINGO GARDENS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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

28% 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 FLAMINGO GARDENS INC.

23%
largest funder
48%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 79% · 2019 51% · 2020 30% · 2021 33% · 2022 23% · 2023 24% — 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

58% of FLAMINGO GARDENS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

80% of FLAMINGO GARDENS INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.

IL
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NJ
RI
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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FLAMINGO GARDENS INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 20 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin11% · below the median
Months of reserve4.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding FLAMINGO GARDENS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $52k on record.

State$52k
20
21
Top programs
  • FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $46k
  • REFUNDS - GENERAL $6k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 12%Fundraising 4%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

FL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Floyd L Wray Memorial Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds FLAMINGO GARDENS INC?
FLAMINGO GARDENS INC (Florida) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,220,573 to it, the largest being THE BATCHELOR FOUNDATION INC ($990,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FLAMINGO GARDENS INC have?
IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $4,220,573 in grants to FLAMINGO GARDENS INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FLAMINGO GARDENS INC?
THE BATCHELOR FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $990,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FLAMINGO GARDENS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 41 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