Florida · Nonprofit
THE FRIENDS OF SANDOWAY HOUSE NATURE CENTER INC
THE FRIENDS OF SANDOWAY HOUSE NATURE CENTER INC (Florida) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $503,515 to it, the largest being THE BATCHELOR FOUNDATION INC ($165,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $722k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $504k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What The Friends of Sandoway House Nature Center Inc does
Mission
The center offers a glimpse into the marine & freshwater ecosystems of the area with interactive exhibits for all ages to explore. Programs & events are designed to inspire guests to care for wildlife & the natural world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sandoway discovery center offers educational experiences focused on florida's environmental and historical sciences, emphasizing native coastal and marine environments while advocating for the conservation of natural resources, beaches, and plant life. In 2025, sandoway welcomed 15,413 visitors over six days a week, educating them about conservation and preservation. A significant number, one third of these visitors, engaged in daily educational shark and stingray feedings, highlighting the importance of conserving our oceans' apex predators. The center features educational displays, animal exhibits, and aquariums designed for all ages to explore and learn about the local environment. All animals at sandoway have been donated as unwanted pets, rescued due to injury, or rehabilitated but unable to return to the wild. They play a vital role in daily educational classes, offering visitors and students interactive and informative experiences.
$250,720 spent$165,714 earned by the program60% of program spendingSandoway offers a vibrant gateway to south florida's fragile marine life and freshwater environments for children, families, regional, national, and international visitors. Recognizing the limited access to and deep need for palm beach county's children to understand crucial s.t.e.m (science, technology, engineering, math) concepts, and be able to relate them in a meaningful way to the natural world around them, we developed our junior naturalist program which offers hands-on, activity-based programs in environmental education for grades k-12. This program is compatible with next generation sunshine state science standards, and palm beach county schools have approved our junior naturalist program curriculum. We are focusing where our hands-on educational support is needed most, on palm beach county's title one schools, programs that serve children who are at risk of academic failure, and those from low socio-economic and minority populations. In 2025, 6,844 students participated in this program from local schools and camps looking to explore southeastern florida's native natural habitat.
$167,147 spent$13,811 earned by the program40% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $417,867.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.1M to $1.3M (+14%).
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: 2017 12% · 2018 8% · 2019 7% · 2020 14% · 2021 14% · 2022 19% · 2023 7% · 2024 8% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of THE FRIENDS OF SANDOWAY HOUSE NATURE CENTER 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. 1 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $76k → $61k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 THE FRIENDS OF SANDOWAY HOUSE NATURE CENTER 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
THE FRIENDS OF SANDOWAY HOUSE NATURE CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% 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 THE FRIENDS OF SANDOWAY HOUSE NATURE CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 28% · 2019 54% · 2020 58% · 2021 44% · 2022 63% · 2023 41% — 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
30% of THE FRIENDS OF SANDOWAY HOUSE NATURE CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
100% of THE FRIENDS OF SANDOWAY HOUSE NATURE CENTER 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. $181k 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
THE FRIENDS OF SANDOWAY HOUSE NATURE CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 THE FRIENDS OF SANDOWAY HOUSE NATURE CENTER 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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF SANDOWAY HOUSE NATURE CENTER INC?
- THE FRIENDS OF SANDOWAY HOUSE NATURE CENTER INC (Florida) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $503,515 to it, the largest being THE BATCHELOR FOUNDATION INC ($165,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FRIENDS OF SANDOWAY HOUSE NATURE CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $503,515 in grants to THE FRIENDS OF SANDOWAY HOUSE NATURE CENTER INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FRIENDS OF SANDOWAY HOUSE NATURE CENTER INC?
- THE BATCHELOR FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $165,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FRIENDS OF SANDOWAY HOUSE NATURE CENTER 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 14 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