Florida · Public charity
Florida Sports Foundation Incorporated
To promote and develop professional, amateur, and participatory sports for the citizens of florida and attract out of state visitors through sports, thus creating significant economic benefit for florida.
- $3.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $3.5M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $659,870
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Florida Sports Foundation Incorporated funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $3.5M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $2.2M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $3.8M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $3.3M | 9% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $1.9M | 35% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $2.0M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $2.5M | 18% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $2.3M | 14% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tampa Bay Sports Commission Inc | $4,757,562 | 9 | 26% |
| Osceola Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc | $2,318,789 | 9 | 3% |
| Orange Bowl Committee Inc | $2,009,858 | 5 | 3% |
| Florida Citrus Sports Events Inc | $1,580,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Greater Miami Convention & Visitors | $1,327,850 | 8 | 1% |
| Palm Beach County Sports Commission | $1,283,269 | 6 | n/a |
| Central Florida Sports Commission Inc | $1,183,795 | 9 | 7% |
| Broward County Elderly & Veteran | $1,013,676 | 6 | n/a |
| Palm Beach County Sports Commission | $868,834 | 3 | 9% |
| Miami Super Bowl Host Committee Inc | $750,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 34 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tampa Bay Sports Commission Inc | $4,757,562 | 9 | 26% |
| Osceola Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc | $2,318,789 | 9 | 3% |
| Orange Bowl Committee Inc | $2,009,858 | 5 | 3% |
| Florida Citrus Sports Events Inc | $1,580,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Greater Miami Convention & Visitors | $1,327,850 | 8 | 1% |
| Palm Beach County Sports Commission | $1,283,269 | 6 | n/a |
| Central Florida Sports Commission Inc | $1,183,795 | 9 | 7% |
| Broward County Elderly & Veteran | $1,013,676 | 6 | n/a |
| Palm Beach County Sports Commission | $868,834 | 3 | 9% |
| Miami Super Bowl Host Committee Inc | $750,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Polk County | $638,604 | 9 | n/a |
| Manatee County Community and Veteran Services Department | $633,738 | 6 | n/a |
| Sarasota Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc | $514,806 | 9 | 6% |
| Orlandoorange County Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc | $411,747 | 7 | 0% |
| Pensacola Sports Association Inc Fka Pensacola Sports Association Foundation | $391,007 | 4 | 8% |
| Pasco County Board of County Commissioners | $360,915 | 9 | n/a |
| Economic Development Office | $309,960 | 9 | n/a |
| Panama City Beach Convention and Visitors Bureau | $299,856 | 4 | 1% |
| Brevard County Government (Brevard County Board of County Commissioners) | $157,494 | 4 | n/a |
| Marion County Board of County Comm | $143,453 | 4 | n/a |
| Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners | $139,684 | 6 | n/a |
| Charlotte County Board of Co | $137,027 | 4 | n/a |
| Gainesville Sports Organizing Committee | $130,811 | 8 | 4% |
| United States Tennis Association Incorporated | $109,556 | 1 | 0% |
| Jacksonville and the Beaches | $107,251 | 4 | 1% |
| Charlotte Harbor Visitor & Convention Bureau | $91,576 | 4 | n/a |
| Highlands County Bocc | $84,929 | 4 | n/a |
| Pensacola Sports Association Inc | $51,169 | 4 | 2% |
| Lake County Board of County Commiss | $46,153 | 1 | n/a |
| Halifax Area Advertising Authority Dba Daytona Beach Cvb | $43,400 | 2 | n/a |
| Leon County Supervisor of Elections | $19,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Leon County Bcc Dba Tallahassee Sports Council | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Gator Bowl Sports Events Inc | $12,550 | 2 | 1% |
| Clay County Board of County Commissioners | $12,009 | 2 | n/a |
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Florida Sports Foundation Incorporated supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Central Florida Behavioral Health Network Inc · Florida Tourism Industry Marketing Corp Inc · Florida Humanities Council Inc · Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Florida Sports Foundation Incorporated
- How much does Florida Sports Foundation Incorporated give?
- Florida Sports Foundation Incorporated reported 22 itemized grants totaling $3,511,029, out of $3,766,594 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Florida Sports Foundation Incorporated fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (100%).
- Who are Florida Sports Foundation Incorporated's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Tampa Bay Sports Commission Inc ($4.8M), Osceola Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc ($2.3M), Orange Bowl Committee Inc ($2.0M).
- Does Florida Sports Foundation Incorporated fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Florida Sports Foundation Incorporated?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Florida Behavioral Health Network Inc, Florida Tourism Industry Marketing Corp Inc, Florida Humanities Council Inc.
- Where is Florida Sports Foundation Incorporated based?
- Florida Sports Foundation Incorporated is based in FL.
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