Florida · Nonprofit
Florida Wildlife Federation
Florida Wildlife Federation (Florida) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,964,827 to it, the largest being The Pew Charitable Trusts ($1,885,821). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Florida Wildlife Federation does
Mission
To safeguard Florida's water, wildlife, and wild spaces by taking action today to prevent irreversible loss tomorrow.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Wildlife and Wild Lands Conservation Program - From the Florida Keys to the Panhandle, our statewide advocacy programs work to conserve Florida's wildlife, waters, and wild lands for the benefit of all. We partner with many different organizations to advance local, state, and federal policies and funding initiatives that support land conservation through public acquisition and conservation easements. Our efforts also prioritize the protection and restoration of vital waterways such as the Ocklawaha and Apalachicola Rivers, the Greater Everglades, and Florida's springs. We work to improve water quality across the state, recognizing its critical role in sustaining ecosystems and protecting vulnerable species like the Florida manatee. We promote responsible outdoor recreation that respects ecosystem integrity, and we champion the protection of iconic and imperiled species-including the Florida panther, black bear, and scrub-jay-through landscape-scale habitat preservation and the advancement of wildlife crossings
$652,707 spent63% of program spendingConservation Connection program is our statewide education and outreach initiative designed to support our advocacy work and inspire public engagement in keeping Florida wild. Through events, speaking engagements, media outreach, and educational programming, we connect people of all ages with nature and with each other. We offer Gopher Tortoise awareness through the donation of educational signage to public spaces and provide interactive opportunities such as live-streamed programs, impact reports, and online engagement. Our Gardening for Wildlife initiative encourages the creation of certified Florida Wildlife Habitats, empowering individuals and communities to take part in conservation from their own backyards. Whether age 2 or 100, we believe everyone can play a role in Florida's conservation movement.
$385,471 spent37% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,038,178.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.0M to $2.9M (+46%).
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.
83% of Florida Wildlife Federation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% 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.
Chief executive
Sarah Gledhill
President & CEO
Board chair
Rene Brown
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 17 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $513k → $575k.
6 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 Florida Wildlife Federation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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
Florida Wildlife Federation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 19% · 2019 58% · 2020 47% · 2021 65% · 2022 80% · 2023 84% — growing more concentrated.
“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
32% of Florida Wildlife Federation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
Florida Wildlife Federation draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $219k 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
Florida Wildlife Federation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 717 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Florida Wildlife Federation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $64 on record.
- SUPPLIES - GENERAL $34
- FEES - GENERAL - COMMODITIES $16
- POSTAGE $14
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 Florida Wildlife Federation
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 Florida Wildlife Federation: 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 Florida Wildlife Federation?
- Florida Wildlife Federation (Florida) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,964,827 to it, the largest being The Pew Charitable Trusts ($1,885,821). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Florida Wildlife Federation have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $4,964,827 in grants to Florida Wildlife Federation, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Florida Wildlife Federation?
- The Pew Charitable Trusts is the largest funder on record, with $1,885,821 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Florida Wildlife Federation 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 59 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