Florida · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE PELICANS INC
FRIENDS OF THE PELICANS INC (Florida) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $253,077 to it, the largest being SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF MANATEE COUNTY INC ($150,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $135k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $253k
- Net assets
- $58k
What Friends of the Pelicans Inc does
Mission
To protect floridas seabirds
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Pier rescue program. Pay a wildlife rescue individual to man the busy fishing piers, 40 hours/week to prevent seabird entanglement. Over 1000 seabirds rescued each year.
$0 spentVolunteer program pier monitors involves volunteers educating fishermen at local piers and rescuing any birds caught in fishing line.
$0 spentVolunteer program mangrove monitors involves volunteers with access to the water monitoring bird rookeries for entangled birds. Hundreds have been rescued each year.
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2021 to 2022, from $11k to $59k (+442%).
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.
100% of FRIENDS OF THE PELICANS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $67k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 THE PELICANS 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 THE PELICANS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 48% · 2022 59% · 2023 75% — 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
75% of FRIENDS OF THE PELICANS INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 75% 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
81% of FRIENDS OF THE PELICANS INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 THE PELICANS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE PELICANS INC
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
62%
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 FRIENDS OF THE PELICANS INC: 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 THE PELICANS INC?
- FRIENDS OF THE PELICANS INC (Florida) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $253,077 to it, the largest being SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF MANATEE COUNTY INC ($150,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE PELICANS INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $253,077 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE PELICANS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE PELICANS INC?
- SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF MANATEE COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE PELICANS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 8 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