How much does Florida College System Foundation give?

Florida College System Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $1,333,123 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Florida College System Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%), Philanthropy (0%).

Who are Florida College System Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Miami Dade College Foundation Inc ($1.1M), Broward College Foundation Inc ($896k), Valencia College Foundation Inc ($853k).

Does Florida College System Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Florida College System Foundation based?

Florida College System Foundation is based in FL.

Florida College System Foundation

Florida College System Foundation at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Florida College System Foundation

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Florida College System Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc, Suncoast Credit Union Foundation, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation.

To secure and manage public and private resources to provide optimal benefit to florida's 28 colleges, thereby supporting students who are seeking a post-secondary education that will positively impact their lives and the future of their communities.

$1.3M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$134k

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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$12MPhilanthropy$8k

02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k21 grants · $706k
$50k–250k7 grants · $627k

$40,183

Median grant

States reached

$32M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$134,470
VALENCIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$111,152
BROWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$98,104
PALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$75,810
HILLSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$71,443
ST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$68,945
FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE AT JACKSONVILLE FOUNDATION	$67,563
FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$49,336
FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE STATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDA	$48,948
DAYTONA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$48,148
INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$46,189
TALLAHASSEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$44,169
EASTERN FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$42,872
SANTA FE COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$40,183
PENSACOLA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$37,429

02The need

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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$12M · 28 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +115% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$12M

$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+115%

+12%

Still filing today

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationPhilanthropyOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

MD
MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +125%
BC
BROWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $896k · revenue +91%
VC
VALENCIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $853k · revenue +147%

Funded once

UW
UNITED WAY OF WEST FLORIDA INC
one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +12%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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.

Florida College System Foundation

Education

Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc

To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…

Education

New College of Florida Development Corporation

Direct support organization to provide aid in the form of money and other forms of property and services to new college of florida, a member of the florida state university system.

Education

Florida Polytechnic University Foundation Inc

Established to help sustain the mission of florida polytechnic university to educate students emphasizing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (stem) in an innovative, technology-rich, and interdisciplinary learning environment.

Education

Minnesota State College Southeast Foundation

Minnesota state college southeast foundation assists the college in achieving excellence in technical education for employment by developing financial and community resources for students, employers, and communities within our service area.

Education

Northeast State Community College Foundation

To promote the cause of higher education and the mission of northeast state community college; to expand educational opportunities; and to acquire, manage, and administer foundation funds to achieve those objectives.

Education

Florida Keys College Campus Foundation Inc

The foundation is organized to receive, invest, and administer real & personal property including, but not limited to, the construction of dormitories for the florida keys community college (the "college"), an instrumentality of the state…

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Fort Scott Community College Foundation

To facilitate and encourage gifts to fort scott community college to support the college's mission to provide a higher education to students.

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South Central College Foundation

The sole purpose of the foundation is to support south central college and its students.

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Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc

The mission of the florida atlantic university foundation inc. is to encourage, promote, and provide funds and other resources for the benefit of florida atlantic university (a part of the florida state university system) in furtherance of…

Education

The Florida State University Foundation Inc

The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management. the fsu foundation accomplishes its mission by fostering…

Education

Lower Columbia College Foundation

Lower columbia college foundation's mission is to provide financial support where public funds are not sufficient, and to gather public support for the enhancement of educational opportunities at lower columbia college.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The State College of Florida Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Indian River State College Foundation 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

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/29

Grantees still filing

26/29

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$5,683,914Other$4,936,973Philanthropy$903,233

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

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.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL24.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Gulf Power Foundationinc · Helios Education Foundation · Clay Electric Foundation Inc · Capital City Bank Group Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

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 College System Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Florida College System Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

17get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home