Florida · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION INC
INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,358 to it, the largest being The Ocean Foundation ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $191k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Institute for Tropical Ecology and Conservation Inc does
Mission
To provide study abroad, tropical field educuational and research experience to undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students, provide facilities for long-term biological research in terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems, operate programs for the conservation of terrestrial and marine resources and to serve the local community by establishing educational programs and workshops on environmental awareness and resource conservation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education - teach college-level field courses to cover 184 students at our field station in bocas del toro, panama. These courses were offered by itec and by visiting schools and universities.
$67,615 spent$99,064 earned by the program57% of program spendingTropical rainforest restoration - producing seedlings of disappearing species of rainforest trees with the goal of replanting land cleared by logging and farming. This will restore the canopy for the benefit of native wildlife and the planet in general.research - provide research facilities for long-term research done in association with programs in tropical biodiversity, coral reef ecology, forest restoration and social impact on the environment.
$51,503 spent$33,021 earned by the program43% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $119,118.
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.
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 $499k to $3.5M (+604%).
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.
2% of INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Peter Lahanas
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $20k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION 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
INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $358 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION 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.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION 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 INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION INC?
- INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,358 to it, the largest being The Ocean Foundation ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $40,358 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION INC?
- The Ocean Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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