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SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC

SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC (Florida) receives grants from 135 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,986,129 to it, the largest being FOX ROCK FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 74 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.6M
Funders on record
135
Grants received
$4.0M
Net assets
$16M
74/135 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What Save the Manatee Club Inc does

Mission

Manatee protection and preservation.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Education and outreach: work to educate the general public, special interest groups, and students through a variety of programs and materials designed to provide information on manatees and their habitat.

    $411,875 spentof which $116,343 as grants
    24% of program spending
  2. Membership services: provides the committed constituency for the membership base needed by the organization to achieve its manatee and manatee habitat protection and preservation objectives.

    $468,029 spent
    28% of program spending
  3. Conservation: acquisition of data, including sponsoring research upon which to base policies and decisions of the organization and other entities, including various levels of government.

    $801,432 spent
    48% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,681,336.

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 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2018 Revenue 93 ($1.3M) Expenses 108 ($1.3M) Net assets 99 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 114 ($1.3M) Net assets 110 ($1.7M)2020 Revenue 176 ($2.5M) Expenses 103 ($1.2M) Net assets 196 ($2.9M)2021 Revenue 651 ($9.2M) Expenses 159 ($1.9M) Net assets 693 ($10M)2022 Revenue 338 ($4.8M) Expenses 173 ($2.0M) Net assets 843 ($13M)2023 Revenue 220 ($3.1M) Expenses 179 ($2.1M) Net assets 941 ($14M)2024 Revenue 257 ($3.6M) Expenses 177 ($2.1M) Net assets 1082 ($16M)
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Revenue (257)Expenses (177)Net assets (1082)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 2020 to 2021, from $3.1M to $11M (+247%).

$1.6M
$1.6M
$1.7M
$3.1M
$11M
$13M
$14M
$16M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

86% of SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,665 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$241k
’17
$51k
’18
$86k
’19
$1.3M
’20
$7.3M
’21
$2.7M
’22
$1.0M
’23
$1.6M
’24
11
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

Dan B Hendrickson

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed99911101099
Joined·+0+0+4+0+0+1+0
No longer listed·0021020
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 63 funders, grant income rose $37k → $652k.

17 of 135 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 135 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

SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

39% 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 SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC.

25%
largest funder
44%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 30% · 2019 28% · 2020 26% · 2021 19% · 2022 62% · 2023 19% — 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.

How long its funders stay

62% of SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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

SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 27 states in all.

NH
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
DC
AL
GA
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. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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

SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,559 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin43% · top quartile
Months of reserve10.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,559 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $90k on record.

State$90k
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23
Top programs
  • CONTRACTED SERVICES - OTHER $90k
  • REFUNDS - GENERAL $50

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 SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 12%Fundraising 7%

Governance

9
board members
89%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

89%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 36 states

AK
ME
NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
HI
OK
MS
AL
GA
FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC?
SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC (Florida) receives grants from 135 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,986,129 to it, the largest being FOX ROCK FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 74 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC have?
IRS filings report 135 organizations giving $3,986,129 in grants to SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC, 74 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC?
FOX ROCK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 135 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing