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PALM BEACH COUNTY FISHING FOUNDATION INC

PALM BEACH COUNTY FISHING FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,810,486 to it, the largest being THE JOHN A & ELIZABETH F TAYLOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($798,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$631k
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$1.8M
Net assets
$2.5M
11/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 66%
01What it does

What Palm Beach County Fishing Foundation Inc does

Mission

The promotion of marine conservation education and historic preservation to have a lasting beneficial impact on the youth and marine resources and history in and around palm beach county

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Kids fishing day - take underprivileged children fishing to educate them on issues of marine environment conservation and protection for the future salty - saltwater angling lessons and techniques for youth

    $136,689 spent$95,738 earned by the program
    39% of program spending
  2. Reef and habitat initiatives - specific projects designed to help improve marine environment. New reef designs mangrove oyster and sea grass projects. Reef darts program to repurpose concrete utility poles and culcerts to provide vertical orientation objects creating high profile marine fish habitat where none previously existed.

    $28,131 spent$117,700 earned by the program
    8% of program spending
  3. Seminars courses and marine flea market - trade show for marine related products to promote responsible fishing practices and seminars on fishing techniques and conservation issues

    $129,929 spent$122,522 earned by the program
    37% of program spending
  4. Grants contributions scholarships - promotion of the marine industry and conservation efforts

    $59,250 spentof which $59,250 as grants
    17% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $353,999.

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 ($311k) Expenses 100 ($211k) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 151 ($469k) Expenses 174 ($367k) Net assets 109 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 190 ($593k) Expenses 193 ($408k) Net assets 126 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 134 ($418k) Expenses 129 ($273k) Net assets 139 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 165 ($512k) Expenses 231 ($489k) Net assets 141 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 287 ($895k) Expenses 235 ($496k) Net assets 178 ($1.9M)2023 Revenue 211 ($657k) Expenses 219 ($462k) Net assets 196 ($2.1M)2024 Revenue 199 ($618k) Expenses 196 ($414k) Net assets 214 ($2.3M)2025 Revenue 203 ($631k) Expenses 246 ($521k) Net assets 224 ($2.5M)
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Revenue (203)Expenses (246)Net assets (224)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 2021 to 2022, from $1.6M to $1.9M (+26%).

$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.4M
$1.5M
$1.6M
$1.9M
$2.1M
$2.3M
$2.5M
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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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

33% of PALM BEACH COUNTY FISHING FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,168 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$100k
’17
$101k
’18
$185k
’19
$145k
’20
$23k
’21
$399k
’22
$195k
’23
$204k
’24
$111k
’25
13
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.

Board chair

Pete Schultz

Chairman tre

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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No longer listed·01004110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $9k → $262k.

6 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $27k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest West Palm Beach Fishing Club Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money PALM BEACH COUNTY FISHING FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of PALM BEACH COUNTY FISHING FOUNDATION 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

PALM BEACH COUNTY FISHING FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

44%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 95% · 2019 66% · 2020 41% · 2021 39% · 2022 47% · 2023 54% — growing more concentrated.

“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

73% of PALM BEACH COUNTY FISHING FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

94% of PALM BEACH COUNTY FISHING FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.

NY
NJ
KY
DC
FL

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

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Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $174k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

PALM BEACH COUNTY FISHING FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · top quartile
Months of reserve12.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 32%Fundraising 0%

Governance

22
board members
91%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • West Palm Beach Fishing Club Inc · exempt
  • West Palm Beach Fishing Club Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds PALM BEACH COUNTY FISHING FOUNDATION INC?
PALM BEACH COUNTY FISHING FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,810,486 to it, the largest being THE JOHN A & ELIZABETH F TAYLOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($798,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PALM BEACH COUNTY FISHING FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,810,486 in grants to PALM BEACH COUNTY FISHING FOUNDATION INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PALM BEACH COUNTY FISHING FOUNDATION INC?
THE JOHN A & ELIZABETH F TAYLOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $798,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PALM BEACH COUNTY FISHING FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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