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PELICAN ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
PELICAN ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY INC (Florida) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $441,655 to it, the largest being INDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($122,178). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $413k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $442k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Pelican Island Audubon Society Inc does
Mission
To preserve and protect the animals, plants, and natural communities, and the land and water on which they depend in indian river county through education, advocacy and public awareness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Audubon advocates, our after school program at audubon house: on a limited budget, we provided an exceptional after school program for 104 5th grade students from four underserved south county schools. Each student learned, in 13 two-and-a-half hour classes about storm and wastewater pollution, birds, and other ecological topics by kayaking in the indian river lagoon, visiting sebastian inlet state park, egret marsh, and the indian river county west wastewater treatment facility, and by walking the county's various scrub, hammock, and wetlands habitats. We received grants from the indian river county childrens service advisory council to operate the program, and we raised donations from community supporters.
$73,756 spent$31,183 earned by the program46% of program spendingPlanting 100,000 trees for life: we have installed a greenhouse, collected thousands of acorns and have over 4,100 acorns that have started to germinate and being put into one gallon pots. Many organizations and irc schools have signed on as partners: uf/ifas irc extension office, ocean research conservation association, irc school district, indian river land trust (irlt), peterson's farms, sebastian river farms, cherry lake farm, arbor day foundation, digg gardens, estuarine, coastal & ocean science, inc., florida research center, irc health department, city of vero beach gis division (each tree planted will be placed on a gps map.), cultural council of irc, indian river neighborhood association, vero beach elementary, indian river academy, citrus elementary and glendale elementary.
$9,155 spent6% of program spendingPelican island audubon society presented our transforming landscapes for a sustainable future conference to provide information to residents, businesses, homeowners associations, and governmental entities with information on the importance of planting native plants and reducing fertilizer and pesticide use for the health of our environment.
$6,895 spent$16,425 earned by the program4% of program spendingPeligram, our monthly pias newsletter (both printed and electronic), features monthly articles on native plants, experiences in nature, advocacy and articles on public policy, local interest, and the florida bird photo of the month with an outstanding photograph submitted by a member or staff. All articles have significant educational messages about birds, nature and conservation, and they advertise our chapter to the public, especially to photographers and local naturalists.pias website: http://www.pelicanislandaudubon.org provides education and conservation information via videos to our members and the community on basic birding, ebird, and the pelican island nwr, as well as information about our initiatives and projects and how people can get involved. Pelican Island Audubon Society Inc has held a conservation easement on martha wininger park and adjacent properties which were purchased through fundraising and advocacy by students of pelican island elementary school to protect resident florida scrub jays. In the previous fiscal years, pelican island audubon society requested and received support from the public to repair and replace fencing and informational kiosks and to…
$68,982 spent$15,724 earned by the program43% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $158,788.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $1.3M to $1.5M (+16%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of PELICAN ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Donna Halleran
Executive director
Board chair
Richard Baker Ph D
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $85k → $96k.
5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 PELICAN ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY 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
PELICAN ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
90% 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 PELICAN ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 53% · 2019 72% · 2020 61% · 2021 46% · 2022 44% · 2023 57% — 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.
How long its funders stay
56% of PELICAN ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
67% of PELICAN ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY 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. $174k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
PELICAN ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY INC holds deeper cash reserves 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
Organizations like PELICAN ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY 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
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PELICAN ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY INC?
- PELICAN ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY INC (Florida) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $441,655 to it, the largest being INDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($122,178). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PELICAN ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $441,655 in grants to PELICAN ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PELICAN ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY INC?
- INDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $122,178 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PELICAN ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 18 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