Florida · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF LOVERS KEY INC
FRIENDS OF LOVERS KEY INC (Florida) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $841,283 to it, the largest being KETCHUM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($300,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $201k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $841k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Friends of Lovers Key Inc does
Mission
FOLKS Mission - Friends of Lovers Key helping to Protect, Preserve and Support Lovers Key State Park. Major Annual Goals: 1 Work with the park staff, the Florida Park Service, FOLKS member and donors and the community to assist Lovers Key State Park recover from Hurricane Ian, Helene and Milton 2 Through a vigorous fundraising effort, raise the funds necessary to assist with the recovery from the Hurricane, maintain the Welcome and Discovery Center and fund its ongoing operations and related education programs. 3 Through community involvement and education enhance awareness that the Park and the Welcome and Discovery Center will be back stronger from the Hurricanes, and reconnect to the Park through the message - Loving Lovers Key - Again 4 Implement Forward Thinks goals to improve parks sustainability
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hurricane Ian made landfall on September 28, 2022, within 10 miles of Lovers Key State Park as a category 5 hurricane. The park was severely damaged from the winds of 150 mph and a 12 foot plus storm surge. This damage caused the park to be closed for reconstruction. In 2024 two additional hurricanes, Helene and Milton severely damaged the park . While the park has partially reopened, and Friends of Lovers Key programs have partially restarted, our efforts have been focused on assisting the park recover from the hurricanes through fund raising and assistance in the replacement of equipment and supplies. In addition, we are developing and implementing sustainability projects such a solor installations for the Park Shop Complex
$184,556 spent$184,556 earned by the program90% of program spendingThe central theme of lovers key Eco-Arts camp is "What You See on the Land, Lands in the Sea" which investigates relationships between land use and the health of aquatic eco-systems (it is also the theme of the speaker series, sponsored by friends of lovers key.) The purpose of this theme is to engage citizens of all ages and backgrounds and learning about and protecting the Estero Bay watershed. Lovers key state parks location is ideal for visitors the connections between land use and water quality.
$10,157 spent$8,748 earned by the program5% of program spendingPartially resumed in 2025 see 4A - "What you see on the Land, Lands in the Sea." A lecture and discussion series, sponsored by Friends of Lovers Key, which began in the fall of 2001. Friends of Lovers Key hosts, a series of lectures and panel discussions about the connections between Florida's aquatic habitats, and land use. Speakers address the challenges facing our waterways, their solutions, and the role of citizens. The series are held in the community room of the welcome and discovery from 6:30 to 8 PM.
$471 spent$706 earned by the program0% of program spendingVolunteer - Park Appreciation
$2,409 spent1% of program spendingCommunity Education of Park Activities
$7,281 spent$7,282 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $204,874.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.1M to $1.3M (+26%).
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: 2020 3% · 2021 13% · 2022 0% · 2023 8% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of FRIENDS OF LOVERS KEY INC’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. 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.
Board chair
James S Remis
President and Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $156k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 LOVERS KEY 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
FRIENDS OF LOVERS KEY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
39% 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 LOVERS KEY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 71% · 2021 99% · 2022 38% · 2023 64% — 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
17% of FRIENDS OF LOVERS KEY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
FRIENDS OF LOVERS KEY INC draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $308k 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
FRIENDS OF LOVERS KEY INC holds deeper cash reserves 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 FRIENDS OF LOVERS KEY INC
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In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LOVERS KEY INC?
- FRIENDS OF LOVERS KEY INC (Florida) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $841,283 to it, the largest being KETCHUM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($300,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF LOVERS KEY INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $841,283 in grants to FRIENDS OF LOVERS KEY INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF LOVERS KEY INC?
- KETCHUM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF LOVERS KEY 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.
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 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