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REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION

REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Florida) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,422,226 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($650,524). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$5.3M
Revenue FY2024
45
Funders on record
$2.4M
Grants received
$6.3M
Net assets
20/45 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%

Against its field

REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,723 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin57% · top quartile
Months of reserve9.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,723 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 114 ($1.7M) Expenses 135 ($1.7M) Net assets 99 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 62 ($902k) Expenses 68 ($856k) Net assets 101 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 130 ($1.9M) Expenses 96 ($1.2M) Net assets 161 ($2.0M)2022 Revenue 126 ($1.8M) Expenses 140 ($1.8M) Net assets 168 ($2.0M)2023 Revenue 227 ($3.3M) Expenses 165 ($2.1M) Net assets 269 ($3.3M)2024 Revenue 362 ($5.3M) Expenses 181 ($2.3M) Net assets 517 ($6.3M)
2017201820202021202220232024
Revenue (362)Expenses (181)Net assets (517)Peer revenue range

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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 9% · 2018 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 35% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

84% of REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,882 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$201k
17
$36k
18
$47k
20
$692k
21
$83k
22
$1.2M
23
$3.0M
24
9.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $45k → $333k.

12 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)80% 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 REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 funders by total. 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

REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

85% 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 REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION.

27%
largest funder
63%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 44% · 2019 32% · 2020 25% · 2021 29% · 2022 17% · 2023 30%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

39% of REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

80% of REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION'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 $473k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 15 states.

ID
MN
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
MO
MD
DE
TN
NC
TX
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. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 45 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Florida

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 9%Fundraising 4%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Florida) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,422,226 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($650,524). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $2,422,226 in grants to REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
Schwab Charitable Fund is the largest funder on record, with $650,524 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like REEF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 45funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing