· Public charity
Florida College System 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of FLORIDA COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k21 grants · $706k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $627k
| 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 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 73% 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 +102% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MDMIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +125%
- BCBROWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $896k · revenue +91%
- VCVALENCIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $853k · revenue +147%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF WEST FLORIDA INCone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +12%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The State College of Florida Foundation Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
29 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.
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 MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VALENCIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST PETERSBURG COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HILLSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds Florida State College at Jacksonville Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE STATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DAYTONA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TALLAHASSEE STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds POLK STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PASCO-HERNANDO STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PENSACOLA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The State College of Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHNS RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE-SUMTER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR FLORIDA GATEWAY COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds CHIPOLA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA KEYS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH FLORIDA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WEST FLORIDA INC ↗
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: 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
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 Florida College System Foundation 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.
- United Way of West Florida Inc — 3% of income from government
- Northwest Florida State College Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Santa Fe College Foundation Inc — 0% 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.