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· Public charity

Hillsborough Education Foundation Inc

To ensure every student in Hillsborough County receives an outstanding public education that equips them for a fulfilling future.

$3.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$964k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$5.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$497kScience & Tech$250kYouth Development$170kCrime & Legal$168kArts & Culture$102kEmployment$45kSocial Science$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $999,557, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,871,596 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,872,039 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
  • $250k+1 grant · $964k
$8,367
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hillsborough County Public Schools$964,167
Frameworks of Tampa Bay Inc$13,424
Ryan Nece Foundation Inc$8,367
Champions for Children Inc$7,203
The Hillsborough Consortium for Technology and Education Inc$6,396
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Positive Coaching Alliance: $70k → 8%Florida Alliance for Arts Education: $74k → 9%Evolution Institute: $25k → 11%Hillsborough County Public Schools: $1.0M → 13%COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL CHANGE: $25k → 13%Hillsborough County Public Schools: $964k → 13%COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL CHANGE: $13k → 13%Hillsborough County Public Schools: $623k → 13%Hillsborough County Public Schools: $617k → 13%HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $511k → 13%HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $455k → 13%HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $336k → 13%Ryan Nece Foundation Inc: $162k → 13%DW Waters Career Center: $20k → 13%Frameworks of Tampa Bay Inc: $13k → 13%Ryan Nece Foundation Inc: $8k → 13%Doby Elementary School: $10k → 13%Brewster Technical Center: $5k → 13%Alliance for Public Schools Foundation Inc: $59k → 13%Ferrell Middle School: $72k → 13%Middleton High School: $18k → 13%Aparicio-Levy Adult Technical Center: $5k → 13%Erwin Technical Center: $5k → 13%HCPS Security and Emergency Management Inc: $29k → 13%HCPS SECURITY AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT INC: $21k → 13%HCPS SECURITY AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT INC: $18k → 13%ALLEN TEMPLE AME CHURCH: $15k → 13%Champions for Children Inc: $148k → 13%Gaither High School Instrumental Music Boosters: $27k → 13%Allen Temple AME Church: $8k → 13%Champions for Children Inc: $7k → 13%Bowers Whitley Career Center: $15k → 13%Jr Achievement of Tampa Bay: $13k → 13%Jr Achievement of Tampa Bay: $13k → 13%Learey Technical Center: $5k → 13%Simmons Career Center: $10k → 13%Bill and Martha Minahan Scholarship Fund Inc: $82k → 13%The Hillsborough Consortium for Technology and Education Inc: $6k → 13%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.0M · 8 repeat orgs$330k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$6.0M
$310k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+16%

Still filing today

38%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentSocial ScienceCrime & LegalEducationInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SD
    SCHOOL DISTRICT OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $5.3M
  • EI
    EVERFI INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $245k
  • RN
    RYAN NECE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $170k · revenue -9% · 43% of their budget

Funded once

  • BA
    Bill and Martha Minahan Scholarship Fund Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $82k
  • FA
    Florida Alliance for Arts Education Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $74k · revenue -52% · 71% of their budget
  • PC
    POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $70k · revenue +29%
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.

1
Public School Forum of Nc Inc

All north carolina children shall have the opportunity to reach their full potential through equitable and meaningful public education that nourishes our state's civic and economic vitality.to provide trusted, nonpartisan, evidence-based…

Education
2
Harmony Dc Public Charter Schools

The mission of the charter school is to prepare students for higher learning in a safe, caring, and collaborative atmosphere through a quality learner-centered educational program with a strong emphasis on science, technology, engineering,…

Education
3
Future Problem Solving Program International Inc

Future problem solving proudly celebrates more than 50 years of placing close to a million young people at the core of a dynamic, purposeful learning experience. each year k-12 students from around the world participate in a variety of…

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4
Quality Life Center of Southwest Florida Inc

To strenghten and instill pride in family and community through the development of programs and institutions that cultivate self-development, teach self-disipline, build confidence and promote cutural awareness.

Community Improvement
5
The Partnership for After School Education Inc

The partnership for after school education is a child-focused organization that promotes and supports quality after school programs, particularly those serving young people from underserved communities. the partnership for after school…

Education
6
National Institute for Excellence in Teaching

Building educator excellence to give all students the opportunity for success.

Education
7
Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning

Casel is a trusted source for knowledge about high-quality, evidence-based social and emotional learning (sel). our mission is to help make evidence-based social and emotional learning (sel) an integral part of education from preschool to…

Youth Development
8
Foundation for Child Development
Education
9
Knowledgeworks Foundation

We help our partners in states and schools work together to align policy and practice, reimagining what education can do through personalized, competency-based learning - and what it must do to prepare students for a lifetime of learning.

Education
10
The Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Inc

The cfef maximizes the impact of florida's local education foundations to facilitate their support of classroom innovation and student achievement, often serving as a conduit for public and private funders interest in impacting student…

Philanthropy
11
Alliance Center for Education Inc

Our mission is to provide high-quality education and support for children in need through partnership with their families. our vision is to positively affect the future of children at risk by improving economic mobility through education.…

Education
12
National Association for Family School & Community

The National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement envisions a world where effective family engagement practices are universally practiced as a strategy to improve childrens learning, and advance equity.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Frameworks of Tampa Bay Inc; the most unlike its peers is Evolution Institute 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

10 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. 10 of the 15 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
3/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHOOL DISTRICT OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY: $5,278,178 · OtherSCHOOL DISTRICT OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTYEVERFI INC: $244,800 · Other+6 more: $343,361 · Other+6 moreRYAN NECE FOUNDATION INC: $170,492 · Youth DevelopmentFRAMEWORKS OF TAMPA BAY INC: $13,424 · Youth DevelopmentCHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN INC: $155,075 · Crime & LegalPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $70,000 · EducationJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF TAMPA BAY INC: $25,000 · InternationalEVOLUTION INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 · Social ScienceHILLSBOROUGH CONSORTIUM FOR TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION INC: $6,396 · Philanthropy
Other$5,866,339Youth Development$183,916Crime & Legal$155,075Education$70,000International$25,000Social Science$25,000Philanthropy$6,396

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRYAN NECE FOUNDATION INC: $170,492 over 2y, 43% of budgetCHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN INC: $155,075 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFlorida Alliance for Arts Education Inc: $74,380 over 1y, 71% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $70,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $58,950 over 1y, 30% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL CHANGE INC: $37,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF TAMPA BAY INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEVOLUTION INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetFRAMEWORKS OF TAMPA BAY INC: $13,424 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

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.

United Way Suncoast I…Community Foundation …Triad Foundation IncSuncoast Credit Union…Debartolo Family Foun…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way Suncoast IncFL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Suncoast Inc · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Triad Foundation Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Hillsborough Education Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hillsborough Education Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Champions for Children Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 15 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 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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