Florida · Nonprofit
Friends of Fakahatchee
Friends of Fakahatchee (Florida) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,812 to it, the largest being TEAM FOOTWORKS EDUCATIONAL & FITNESS CORPORATION ($25,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $136k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $54k
- Net assets
- $377k
What Friends of Fakahatchee does
Mission
The Friends of Fakahatchee Inc. Provides Financial/Volunteer Support to Preserve the Unique Heritage of The Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park and to Educate the Public
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Friends of Fakahatchee Inc. is the Citizen Support Organization of the Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park, the Largest Cypress Strand Swamp in the Greater Everglades
$113,516 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $113,516.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $439k to $379k (−14%).
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.
70% of Friends of Fakahatchee’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. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Francine Stevens
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $14k → $9k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 Friends of Fakahatchee’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
Friends of Fakahatchee leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 Friends of Fakahatchee.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 100% · 2019 50% · 2020 100% · 2021 60% · 2022 73% · 2023 95% — 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
20% of Friends of Fakahatchee's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
94% of Friends of Fakahatchee's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Friends of Fakahatchee runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Friends of Fakahatchee receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $2k
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 Friends of Fakahatchee
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.
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of Fakahatchee: 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 Friends of Fakahatchee?
- Friends of Fakahatchee (Florida) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,812 to it, the largest being TEAM FOOTWORKS EDUCATIONAL & FITNESS CORPORATION ($25,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of Fakahatchee have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $53,812 in grants to Friends of Fakahatchee, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of Fakahatchee?
- TEAM FOOTWORKS EDUCATIONAL & FITNESS CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of Fakahatchee 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 10 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