· Public charity
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 achievement in geographic or programmatic areas throughout the state.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 60 grants below total $8,874,178 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $11,231,276 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,357,098 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $499k
- $50k–250k28 grants · $3.8M
- $250k+10 grants · $4.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE EDUCATION FUND- MIAMI-DADE | $793,502 |
| BROWARD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $666,288 |
| THE FOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $561,951 |
| HILLSBOROUGH EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $546,776 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $472,601 |
| JACKSONVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND | $369,136 |
| POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $344,814 |
| THE FOUNDATION FOR LEE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC | $298,271 |
| BREVARD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $285,241 |
| PASCO EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $262,217 |
| PINELLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $249,631 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR OSCEOLA COUNTY | $200,740 |
| FUTURES FOUNDATION FOR VOLUSIA COUNTY SCHOOLS | $199,435 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF LAKE COUNTY | $194,897 |
| OKALOOSA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC | $188,774 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $173k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TETHE EDUCATION FUND INC F/K/A DADE PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND IN9× · 2017–2025 · $5.2M · revenue +158%
- BEBroward Education Foundation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $4.2M · revenue +102%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +160%
Funded once
- JCJEFFERSON COUNTY EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $564 · revenue +45%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To assist in accomplishing the educational purposes of polk school district in polk county georgia. to help serve students, teachers, and families of polk county.
To promote the education, health, and emotional well being of children in our communities through scholarships and contributions to public schools, medical research and development, family support organizations, and other charitable…
Support public shcools of monroe county al
The midland education foundation exists to promote excellence in education by generating and distributing additional resources for the benefit of midland isd students and staff.
The program service accomplishments provided grants for teachers and scholarships for students in the boone county school system
The Uvalde CISD Education Foundation is committed to enhancing educational opportunities for Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District students. Our mission is to provide financial support to educators and students to promote…
Provide grant funding for ecisd students & teachers
To Influence and enrich student achievement for the students of Flint Community Schools.
Established in 2006, the gwinnett county public schools foundation fund, inc. is a nonprofit 501(c)3 charitable organization dedicated to providing financial resources to enrich and enhance education in gwinnett county public schools. the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foundation for Lee County Public Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Moore Haven High School Scholarship Organization Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 70 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE EDUCATION FUND INC F/K/A DADE PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND IN ↗
- Who funds Broward Education Foundation Inc ↗
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- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSONVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR LEE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds PINELLAS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BREVARD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PASCO EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR OSCEOLA EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURES INC ↗
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- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MANATEE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
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- Who funds OKALOOSA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc · Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Capital City Bank Group Foundation Inc · Clay Electric Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Florida Endowment Foundation for Vocational Rehabilitation Inc · Equitable Foundation Inc · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Dollar General Literacy Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- St Lucie County Education Foundation Inc — 55% of income from government
- Broward Education Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.