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LAKE WORTH LAGOON ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INC

LAKE WORTH LAGOON ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INC (Florida) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $288,436 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2023
$181k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$288k
Net assets
$323k
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What Lake Worth Lagoon Environmental Defense Fund Inc does

Mission

To educate the public regarding the hazards in our waters.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Program

  1. D.a.v.e. (derelict, abandoned, vessel eradication): twelve vessels and 385,824 pounds of debris were removed from the intracoastal waterway in palm beach county in 2023, making the water cleaner and safer for all citizens in the spirit of maintaining community education and awareness, lagoonkeepers.org contributed to thirty-two cleanup events, and thirty-six calls for boating hazards in 2023.

    $176,754 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $176,754.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($301k) Expenses 100 ($306k) Net assets 100 ($224k)2018 Revenue 67 ($201k) Expenses 62 ($190k) Net assets 105 ($235k)2019 Revenue 72 ($218k) Expenses 71 ($218k) Net assets 105 ($236k)2020 Revenue 86 ($259k) Expenses 82 ($250k) Net assets 109 ($245k)2021 Revenue 143 ($432k) Expenses 112 ($344k) Net assets 149 ($333k)2022 Revenue 94 ($285k) Expenses 91 ($278k) Net assets 152 ($340k)2023 Revenue 60 ($181k) Expenses 64 ($196k) Net assets 144 ($323k)
2017201820192020202120222023
Revenue (60)Expenses (64)Net assets (144)Peer revenue range

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 $642k to $596k (−7%).

$702k
$675k
$636k
$639k
$634k
$642k
$596k
2017201820192020202120222023
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

36% of LAKE WORTH LAGOON ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’17
$11k
’18
$829
’19
$9k
’20
$89k
’21
$7k
’22
−$15k
’23
0.7
months of
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.

2017201820192020202120222023
Listed4444444
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $26k → $50k.

3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 LAKE WORTH LAGOON ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND 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

LAKE WORTH LAGOON ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

79% 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 LAKE WORTH LAGOON ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INC.

69%
largest funder
94%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 93% · 2021 77% · 2022 100% · 2023 50% — 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.

Where its funders are

78% of LAKE WORTH LAGOON ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $63k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from Florida funders.

CA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’20
’21
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $225k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LAKE WORTH LAGOON ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INC's revenue fell 40% between 2017 and 2023.

Operating margin−8% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,135 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 6%Fundraising 3%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

20%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds LAKE WORTH LAGOON ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INC?
LAKE WORTH LAGOON ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INC (Florida) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $288,436 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LAKE WORTH LAGOON ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $288,436 in grants to LAKE WORTH LAGOON ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LAKE WORTH LAGOON ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INC?
GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAKE WORTH LAGOON ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INC find more funders?
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 7 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