Kentucky · Nonprofit
MARY E WHARTON NATURE SANCTUARY AT FLORACLIFF INC
MARY E WHARTON NATURE SANCTUARY AT FLORACLIFF INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $195,774 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($120,435). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $452k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $196k
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Mary E Wharton Nature Sanctuary at Floracliff Inc does
Mission
To promote conservation and appreciation of nature through education, shared experiences, and stewardship of the sanctuary.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Organization prioritizes the protection of land, ecosystems, and biodiversity for their intrinsic value and for the benefits they provide to our community and planet, cares for and manages the sanctuary's diverse habitats and cultural resources to support native wildlife, enhance visitor experience, and promote a shared ethic for land stewardship in kentucky, and provides programs for people of all ages and cultivate curiosity about the natural world through experience, observation, and creativity.
$180,384 spent$13,823 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $180,384.
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 2024 to 2025, from $4.6M to $5.0M (+9%).
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $21k → $37k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 MARY E WHARTON NATURE SANCTUARY AT FLORACLIFF 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
MARY E WHARTON NATURE SANCTUARY AT FLORACLIFF INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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 MARY E WHARTON NATURE SANCTUARY AT FLORACLIFF INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2020 62% · 2021 62% · 2022 57% · 2023 69% — 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
64% of MARY E WHARTON NATURE SANCTUARY AT FLORACLIFF 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 $70k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from funders outside Kentucky, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $125k 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
MARY E WHARTON NATURE SANCTUARY AT FLORACLIFF INC runs a healthier operating margin 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
Government funding MARY E WHARTON NATURE SANCTUARY AT FLORACLIFF INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $70k on record.
- Department of the Interior$70k
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 MARY E WHARTON NATURE SANCTUARY AT FLORACLIFF 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
38%
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 MARY E WHARTON NATURE SANCTUARY AT FLORACLIFF 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 MARY E WHARTON NATURE SANCTUARY AT FLORACLIFF INC?
- MARY E WHARTON NATURE SANCTUARY AT FLORACLIFF INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $195,774 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($120,435). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MARY E WHARTON NATURE SANCTUARY AT FLORACLIFF INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $195,774 in grants to MARY E WHARTON NATURE SANCTUARY AT FLORACLIFF INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARY E WHARTON NATURE SANCTUARY AT FLORACLIFF INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $120,435 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARY E WHARTON NATURE SANCTUARY AT FLORACLIFF INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 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