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Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I

Tallahassee, FL · EIN 59-3277808. Reported 255 grants totalling $6,025,143 to 99 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

1. What kind of organization it is. For Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for animal welfare (NTEE D123).
2. How spread out its giving is. 99 distinct organizations, with 56% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
3. How much its list changes. 38% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $15,190. Half of what it reported fell between $9,185 and $27,119; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $170,950. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

31 of 99 (31%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

• Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission $170,950 · 2023
  CREATING ARK SITES FOR BLACK CREEK CRAYFISH
• Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission $150,000 · 2020
  ASSESSMENT OF THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF A NEUROMUSCULAR DISORDER IMPACTING BOBCATS AND THE ENDANGERED FLORIDA PANTHER
• Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute $100,000 · 2024
  FG25-03 MANATEE REHABILITATIVE AND CRITICAL CARE FACILITY
• University of North Carolina at Wilmington $62,537 · 2024
  FG25-05 NEURAL ANOMALIES IN THE SMALLTOOTH SAWFISH, PRISTIS PECTINATA
• Friends of the Wekiva River Inc $50,000 · 2024
  PFS25-14 CRITICAL HABITAT: MAPPING EEL GRASS WITHIN THE WEKIVA WILD AND SCENIC RIVER SYSTEM
• Stetson University Institute for Water and Environmental Resilience $49,890 · 2024
  PFS25-21 QUANTIFYING DIFFERENCES IN PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY AND HERBIVORY CONTROL AMONG NATIVE VERSUS NON-NATIVE WATER LETTUCE (PISTIA STRATIOTES) IN SPRING RUNS OF THE ST. JOHNS RIVER

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 52 of 99 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Giving by year

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

95% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Down to the city

Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

How to approach this grantmaker

1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,190 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Florida.
4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 325 John Knox Rd Suite E-110, Tallahassee, FL, 32303.

EIN 59-3277808 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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