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The Florida State University Foundation Inc

The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management.

$35M
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$33M
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$274MScience & Tech$1.7MHousing & Shelter$717kHealth$629kReligion$38kArts & Culture$19k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $175k
  • $250k+2 grants · $34M
$1,245,025
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Florida State University$32,999,570
The Florida State University Alumni Association$1,245,025
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC$175,000
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $8k → 13%THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $54.2M → 19%ST JOHNS RIVER STATE COLLEGE: $7k → 23%SOCIETY FOR MILITARY HISTORY: $9k → 6%ATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT: $10k → 13%GAMMA PHI BETA FOUNDATION: $29k → 8%PHI DELTA THETA FOUNDATION: $6k → 12%The Florida State University: $33.0M → 19%ST JOHNS RIVER STATE COLLEGE: $7k → 23%THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $29.9M → 19%THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $29.8M → 19%THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $27.0M → 19%THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $26.9M → 19%THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $26.5M → 19%THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $21.8M → 19%THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $21.7M → 19%THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1.1M → 19%THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $235k → 19%FSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $175k → 19%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $175k → 19%BOND COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $170k → 19%FSU REAL ESTATE FOUNDATION: $167k → 19%FSU REAL ESTATE FOUNDATION: $100k → 19%FSU REAL ESTATE FOUNDATION: $100k → 19%FSU REAL ESTATE FOUNDATION: $100k → 19%FSU REAL ESTATE FOUNDATION: $100k → 19%FSU REAL ESTATE FOUNDATION: $100k → 19%BOND COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $62k → 19%TALLAHASSEE MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $216k → 19%FSU REAL ESTATE FOUNDATION: $50k → 19%TALLAHASSEE MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $121k → 19%BIG BEND HOSPICE: $30k → 19%BIG BEND HOSPICE: $30k → 19%The Florida State University Alumni Association: $1.2M → 19%THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $751k → 19%THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $324k → 19%THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $323k → 19%THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $125k → 19%THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $125k → 19%THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $125k → 19%THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $125k → 19%THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $125k → 19%HILLEL AT FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $38k → 19%SOUTHERN SCHOLARSHIP HOUSE: $17k → 19%SOUTHERN SCHOLARSHIP HOUSE: $12k → 19%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$277M · 11 repeat orgs$144k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
8

Total granted

$277M
$144k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-11%
+60%

Still filing today

64%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationArts & CultureOther
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 STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +21%
  • BC
    BOND COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $232k · revenue +54%
  • BB
    Big Bend Hospice Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $60k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • HA
    HILLEL AT FSU FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $38k · revenue +242%
  • GP
    GAMMA PHI BETA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $29k · revenue +60%
  • N
    NAVIENT
    one grant, 2017 · $24k
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
Shands Jacksonville Foundation Inc

As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…

Education
2
Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc

To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…

Education
3
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc

The brothers of phi beta sigma are the fraternity's most valuable resource and strength. they are the primary means by which the phi beta sigma objectives will be achieved. in order to accomplish the fraternity's objectives, it is…

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4
Shands Jacksonville Healthcare Inc

As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…

Health
5
South Florida Hospital Research Education Foundation Inc

To receive and administer funds and property for scientific, educational and charitable purposes.

Health
6
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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7
Tallahassee State College Foundation Inc

The foundation raises charitable funds from the public to provide support to the college through student scholarships, awards, and faculty support for academic extracurricular activities.

Education
8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Florida Southwestern State College Foundation Inc

The mission of the fsw foundation is to support the strategic priorities of florida southwestern state college by providing additional funding and resources.

Education
10
Flagler Health Care Foundation Inc

The organization's mission is to support uf health promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the…

Health
11
Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc

The mission of the florida atlantic university foundation inc. is to encourage, promote, and provide funds and other resources for the benefit of florida atlantic university (a part of the florida state university system) in furtherance of…

Education
12
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Society for Military History. 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

12 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. 12 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $270,776,185 · OtherFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY+13 more: $1,727,973 · OtherFlorida State University Alumni Association: $3,267,075 · EducationFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,702,068 · Education+1 more: $29,513 · EducationATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY FOR MILITARY HISTORY: $8,759 · Arts & Culture
Other$272,504,158Education$4,998,656Arts & Culture$18,759

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 budgetFlorida State University Alumni Association: $3,267,075 over 9y, 51% of budgetFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,702,068 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetThe Florida State University Real Estate Foundation Incorporated: $717,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetTALLAHASSEE MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $336,500 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetBOND COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $232,230 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetBig Bend Hospice Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHILLEL AT FSU FOUNDATION INC: $37,955 over 1y, 18% of budgetSOUTHERN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $29,513 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGAMMA PHI BETA FOUNDATION: $29,326 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 The Florida State University Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Florida State University Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • Bond Community Health Center Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Southern Scholarship Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get 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 · 0–50%
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 19 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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