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SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC

SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $519,870 to it, the largest being CHARLES & MARGERY BARANCIK FOUNDATION INC ($370,560). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$205k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$520k
Net assets
$262k
5/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 79%
01What it does

What Science & Environment Council of Southwest Florida Inc does

Mission

Promote and advocate science, conservation, and environmental issues in sarasota and manatee county for maintaining and improving quality of life through education, public outreach, demonstration, information gathering adn analysis, and special projects.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Watershed awareness and water quality outreach via events, distribution, and social media to raise public awareness about watershed issues important to sustaining quality of life in southwest florida. Reaching 12,000 people directly at events and 870,000 with kiosks, web, and social media.

    $66,579 spent
    47% of program spending

  2. Water quality playbook update: a comprehensive online guide featuring 43 actionable, science-based activities for reducing nutrient pollution in sarasota county. Updated for 2025, it serves as a toolkit for local officials and residents to improve water quality through policy, infrastructure, and restoration projects.

    $37,125 spent
    26% of program spending

  3. Healthy pond guide update and homeowner information sheets: a comprehensive, award-winning resource created for sarasota and manatee county homeowners and hoa managers to restore and maintain local stormwater retention ponds. It provides actionable steps on improving water quality, managing pollution, enhancing shorelines with native plants, and establishing "no-mow" zones to reduce nutrient.

    $6,600 spent
    5% of program spending

  4. Other

    $32,255 spent
    23% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $142,559.

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 ($113k) Expenses 100 ($97k) Net assets 100 ($43k)2018 Revenue 156 ($177k) Expenses 193 ($188k) Net assets 74 ($32k)2019 Revenue 102 ($116k) Expenses 85 ($83k) Net assets 150 ($65k)2020 Revenue 51 ($57k) Expenses 96 ($93k) Net assets 67 ($29k)2021 Revenue 267 ($302k) Expenses 260 ($253k) Net assets 181 ($78k)2022 Revenue 369 ($418k) Expenses 219 ($214k) Net assets 654 ($282k)2023 Revenue 342 ($387k) Expenses 440 ($429k) Net assets 559 ($241k)2024 Revenue 86 ($98k) Expenses 125 ($122k) Net assets 502 ($217k)2025 Revenue 181 ($205k) Expenses 167 ($162k) Net assets 608 ($262k)
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Revenue (181)Expenses (167)Net assets (608)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 $78k to $282k (+261%).

$43k
$32k
$65k
$29k
$78k
$282k
$248k
$217k
$263k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 33% · 2022 11% · 2023 16% · 2024 44% · 2025 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$16k
’17
−$11k
’18
$33k
’19
−$36k
’20
$49k
’21
$204k
’22
−$41k
’23
−$24k
’24
$43k
’25
3.1
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

David Tomasko

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed119989
Joined·+0+2+0+1
No longer listed·2210
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $80k.

Funder
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'18
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
2
2
1
4
3
2
1

4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA 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

SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

29% 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 SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC.

71%
largest funder
95%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 93% · 2023 75% — 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

100% of SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.

FL

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

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’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $149k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · above the median
Months of reserve3.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA 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

Sarasota Bay Watch Inc81%Suncoast Waterkeeper Inc80%Save the Manatee Club Inc79%Keep Palm Beach County Beautiful78%Environmental Studies Council Inc78%Grassy Waters Conservancy Inc78%Coral Springs Nature Center & Wildlife Hospital78%Palm Beach County Fishing Foundation Inc77%

Nationally

Sarasota Bay Watch Inc81%Suncoast Waterkeeper Inc80%Save the Manatee Club Inc79%Keep Palm Beach County Beautiful78%Environmental Studies Council Inc78%Grassy Waters Conservancy Inc78%Coral Springs Nature Center & Wildlife Hospital78%Palm Beach County Fishing Foundation Inc77%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

75%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC?
SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $519,870 to it, the largest being CHARLES & MARGERY BARANCIK FOUNDATION INC ($370,560). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $519,870 in grants to SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC?
CHARLES & MARGERY BARANCIK FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $370,560 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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