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THE EVERGLADES TRUST INC

THE EVERGLADES TRUST INC (Florida) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being THE FREE LUNCH FOUNDATION ($2,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$437k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$3k
Net assets
$268k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What The Everglades Trust Inc does

Mission

To preserve america's everglades and florida bay as natural resources.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Educated the public and state and federal policymakers on the benefits of everglades restoration, seeking full funding for everglades restoration projects.

    $802,659 spentof which $30,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $802,659.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($504k) Expenses 100 ($742k) Net assets 100 ($15k)2018 Revenue 346 ($1.7M) Expenses 218 ($1.6M) Net assets 920 ($137k)2019 Revenue 120 ($604k) Expenses 87 ($645k) Net assets 648 ($97k)2020 Revenue 263 ($1.3M) Expenses 152 ($1.1M) Net assets 1922 ($287k)2021 Revenue 92 ($462k) Expenses 77 ($571k) Net assets 1376 ($206k)2022 Revenue 149 ($753k) Expenses 82 ($605k) Net assets 2410 ($360k)2023 Revenue 285 ($1.4M) Expenses 132 ($981k) Net assets 5319 ($795k)2024 Revenue 87 ($437k) Expenses 130 ($964k) Net assets 1793 ($268k)
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Revenue (87)Expenses (130)Net assets (1793)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $824k to $305k (−63%).

$16k
$140k
$99k
$287k
$206k
$360k
$824k
$305k
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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

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$238k
’17
$122k
’18
−$41k
’19
$197k
’20
−$109k
’21
$147k
’22
$456k
’23
−$527k
’24
3.2
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.

Chief executive

Anna H Upton

CEO

Board chair

Kirk Fordham

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed444910977
Joined·+0+0+5+1+2+0+0
No longer listed·0000320
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $1k.

Funder
'18
'21
total
funders
1
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $907k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Everglades Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE EVERGLADES TRUST INC raised.

From the IRS filings of THE EVERGLADES TRUST 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.

Where its funders are

THE EVERGLADES TRUST INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 1 state in all.

WY

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

’18
’21
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Organizations like THE EVERGLADES TRUST 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

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 17%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE EVERGLADES TRUST INC: 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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Questions and answers

Who funds THE EVERGLADES TRUST INC?
THE EVERGLADES TRUST INC (Florida) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being THE FREE LUNCH FOUNDATION ($2,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE EVERGLADES TRUST INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,500 in grants to THE EVERGLADES TRUST INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE EVERGLADES TRUST INC?
THE FREE LUNCH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE EVERGLADES TRUST 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 1 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