Florida · Nonprofit
The Inst for Regional Conservation
The Inst for Regional Conservation (Florida) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $602,249 to it, the largest being NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ($350,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $762k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $602k
- Net assets
- $399k
What The Inst for Regional Conservation does
Mission
The Institute of Regional Conservation (IRC) is dedicated to the protection, restoration, and long-term management of biodiversity on a regional basis, and to the prevention of regional extinctions of rare plants, animals and ecosystems.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Ecological Restoration and Management (ERM) Since 2006, we have designed and implemented dozens of ecological restoration projects to help recover degraded native ecosystems and depleted populations of native plants and animals. This work includes our Pine Rockland Initiative in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties, Restoring the Gold Coast along the southeast Florida coastline, and Restoring Urban Nature in urbanized South Florida.
$546,644 spent$640,637 earned by the program81% of program spendingRegional Conservation Models We develop regional conservation models and tools to advise and direct conservation and restoration strategies by diverse partners across broad regions. Examples of major programs include The Floristic Inventory of South Florida, Natives For Your Neighborhood, and Plantas de la Isla de Puerto Rico/ Plants of the Island of Puerto Rico. We have published extensively in gray, popular, and peer-reviewed literature, including global guidance on ecological restoration, botanical discoveries, and taxonomic revisions. volunteers to restore biodiversity along the barrier islands in southern Palm Beach County.
$94,715 spent$57,241 earned by the program14% of program spendingApplied Conservation Science We collect, aggregate, and report baseline and current data on native and invasive plants, wildlife, and ecosystem conditions. urban Broward County, including as assessment of local extinctions of native plants and opportunities.
$11,306 spent$6,793 earned by the program2% of program spendingGeneral programming and Applied Conservation Science.
$18,349 spent$59,585 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $671,014.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $516k to $418k (−19%).
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: 2021 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Robert Heinzman
Chair of the Board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $55k → $381k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 Inst for Regional Conservation’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 Inst for Regional Conservation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 Inst for Regional Conservation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 50% · 2022 64% · 2023 92% — 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
14% of The Inst for Regional Conservation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
The Inst for Regional Conservation draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $123k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Government funding The Inst for Regional Conservation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.7M on record.
- Department of the Interior$1.2M
- Department of Defense$490k
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 The Inst for Regional Conservation
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Inst for Regional Conservation: 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 Inst for Regional Conservation?
- The Inst for Regional Conservation (Florida) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $602,249 to it, the largest being NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ($350,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Inst for Regional Conservation have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $602,249 in grants to The Inst for Regional Conservation, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Inst for Regional Conservation?
- NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Inst for Regional Conservation 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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