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Heart of Florida Educational Foundation Inc at a glance

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Heart of Florida Educational Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$27k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$141kScience & Tech$4k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$615k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Polk State College$7,000
University of Central Florida$5,000
University of Florida$4,000
Florida State University$4,000
University of South FLorida$2,000
Nova Southeastern University$2,000
Flagler College$1,000
Advent Health University$1,000
Florida Southern College$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Carnegie Mellon University: $1k → 11%Flagler College: $2k → 6%Florida Atlantic University: $1k → 11%Embry: $3k → 12%Valencia Community COllege: $3k → 13%University of South Florida: $7k → 13%Nova Southeastern University: $2k → 13%University of North FLorida: $1k → 14%Polk State College: $7k → 16%Florida State University: $5k → 19%Georgia Institute of Technology: $2k → 13%Flagler College: $2k → 6%Embry: $2k → 12%Valencia Community COllege: $3k → 13%University of South FLorida: $6k → 13%Nova Southeastern University: $2k → 13%University of North FLorida: $1k → 14%Polk State College: $4k → 16%Florida State University: $4k → 19%Georgia Institute of Technology: $2k → 13%Flagler College: $1k → 6%Embry: $1k → 12%Valencia Community COllege: $1k → 13%University of South FLorida: $4k → 13%Nova Southeastern University: $2k → 13%University of North Florida: $1k → 14%Polk State College: $3k → 16%Florida State University: $4k → 19%Flagler College: $1k → 6%University of South FLorida: $3k → 13%Florida State University: $2k → 19%University of South FLorida: $3k → 13%Florida State University: $2k → 19%University of Central Florida: $6k → 13%University of South FLorida: $2k → 13%Warner University: $6k → 16%University of Central Florida: $5k → 13%Warner University: $4k → 16%Florida A M University: $4k → 19%University of Central Florida: $5k → 13%University of Central Florida: $4k → 13%University of Central Florida: $3k → 13%Florida Southern College: $2k → 16%University of Central Florida: $3k → 13%Florida Southern College: $2k → 16%Southeastern University: $2k → 16%Southeastern University: $2k → 16%Florida Southern College: $2k → 16%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$168k · 16 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
3

Total granted

$168k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+35%

Still filing today

25%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • FS
    FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +31%
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +37%
  • FC
    FLAGLER COLLEGE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • CM
    Carnegie Mellon Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +35%
  • FA
    Florida Atlantic University
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • WU
    Webber University
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
6/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Central Florida: $26,000 · OtherUniversity of Central FloridaUniversity of South Florida: $25,000 · OtherUniversity of South FloridaFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $18,000 · OtherFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITYPolk State College: $16,000 · OtherPolk State CollegeUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $15,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAWARNER UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherWARNER UNIVERSITYValencia Community COllege: $9,000 · OtherValencia Community COllegeEmbry: $6,000 · OtherFlorida A M University: $5,000 · Other+7 more: $13,000 · Other+7 moreFLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $9,000 · EducationFLORIDA SOUTHERN CO…Nova Southeastern University Inc: $8,000 · EducationNova Southeastern U…FLAGLER COLLEGE INC: $6,000 · EducationFLAGLER COLLEGE INCSOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY INC: $6,000 · EducationSOUTHEASTERN UNIVER…
Other$143,000Education$29,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFLAGLER COLLEGE INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗
  • Who funds FLAGLER COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
  • Who funds AdventHealth University 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Tulsa Community Found…Natl Christian Charit…Amazonsmile Foundation
Tulsa Community FoundationOK13.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Florida Southern College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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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Find your warmest path to Heart of Florida Educational Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 20 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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