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Florida Academy of Sciences Inc

The purposes of the corporation shall be to promote scientific research, to stimulate interest in the sciences, to encourage the diffusion of scientific knowledge, to sponsor good scientific teaching, to foster public and governmental understanding and appreciation of the sciences and the industries that apply them, to assist in the…

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$18kScience & Tech$5kHealth$2k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$994k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY$2,000
STETSON UNIVERSITY$2,000
INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE$2,000
ECKERD COLLEGE$2,000
ST THOMAS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SEMINOLE STATE COLLEGE: $2k → 11%STETSON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 12%ECKERD COLLEGE: $2k → 12%FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE SCIENTISTS: $1k → 13%INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE: $2k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA: $1k → 14%ST THOMAS UNIVERSITY: $2k → 15%SOUTH FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE: $2k → 16%BETHUNE COOKMAN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $1k → 13%ST THOMAS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $2k → 15%SOUTH FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE: $2k → 16%BETHUNE COOKMAN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Florida Southern College

Private united methodist affiliated college that is committed to educational excellence.

Education
2
Florida Institute of Technology Inc

Florida institute of technology's mission is to provide high-quality education to a culturally diverse student body in order to prepare students for entering the global workforce, seeking higher-education opportunities, and serving within…

Education
3
University of the South

An Episcopal University composed of the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Theology.

Education
4
University of St Francis

Higher learning institution (post secondary education)

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5
St Marys University of Minnesota

Saint mary's university of minnesota is a private catholic institution that serves about 3,900 students annually. the university offers a comprehensive, personalized education guided by its lasallian catholic heritage. with a wide array of…

Education
6
Lehigh University

Lehigh university strives to earn international prominence as a universty of special distinction and provide students with opportunities for success through its integration of teaching, research and service to society.

Education
7
Charleston Southern University

The university's mission is to promote academic excellence in a christian environment.

Education
8
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc

Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…

Education
9
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
10
The Florida State University Foundation Inc

The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university. (continued in schedule o)

Education
11
University of Holy Cross

To educate and provide public service to its university community.

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12
The University of Tampa Incorporated

The University of Tampa is committed to the development of each student to become a productive and responsible citizen.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Thomas University Inc; the most unlike its peers is Florida Foundation for Future Scientists Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
2/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTH FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE: $4,000 · OtherSOUTH FLORIDA STATE COLLEGESEMINOLE STATE COLLEGE: $2,000 · OtherSEMINOLE STATE COLLEGEINDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE: $2,000 · OtherINDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGEST THOMAS UNIVERSITY INC: $2,000 · OtherST THOMAS UNIVERSITY INCFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $2,000 · OtherFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITYST THOMAS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $2,000 · OtherST THOMAS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCESFLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE SCIENTISTS INC: $1,000 · OtherFLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE SCIENTISTS INCUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $1,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDAUNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA: $1,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDABETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY: $4,000 · EducationBETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITYEckerd College: $2,000 · EducationEckerd CollegeSTETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $2,000 · EducationSTETSON UNIVERSITY INC
Other$17,000Education$8,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST THOMAS UNIVERSITY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEckerd College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE SCIENTISTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds BETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ST THOMAS UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Eckerd College ↗
  • Who funds STETSON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE SCIENTISTS INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Florida Academy of Sciences Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Florida Academy of Sciences Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Bethune-Cookman University: 11% of income from government
  • St Thomas University Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Stetson University Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Eckerd College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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