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Central Florida Educational Foundation Inc

Central Florida Educational Foundation Inc (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,067 to it, the largest being INDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($36,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$102k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$82k
Net assets
$8.5M
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%
01What it does

What Central Florida Educational Foundation Inc does

Mission

Supporting organization of Z Ministries, Inc., a listener-supported, non-commercial radio station.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Organization owns Federal Communications Commission (FCC) license authorizations and related fixed assets which it allows its supported organization, Z Ministries, Inc. to use to operate listener-supported, non-commercial radio stations. The stations provide continuous broadcasting to Orlando, Florida and surrounding areas. The stations currently broadcast in twelve Florida counties and via the internet reaching a potential estimated 4.5 million U.S. listeners per week. The format is exclusively Christian music. The radio stations make Central Florida a better place to live by providing a spiritual anchor, news, weather, and emergency information to keep families informed, safe, and encouraged.

    $381,075 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $381,075.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($11k) Expenses 100 ($170k) Net assets 100 ($6.7M)2018 Revenue 3358 ($365k) Expenses 107 ($182k) Net assets 103 ($6.9M)2019 Revenue 1253 ($136k) Expenses 113 ($193k) Net assets 102 ($6.9M)2020 Revenue 18575 ($2.0M) Expenses 149 ($254k) Net assets 128 ($8.6M)2021 Revenue 4879 ($530k) Expenses 152 ($260k) Net assets 132 ($8.9M)2022 Revenue 3956 ($430k) Expenses 198 ($338k) Net assets 133 ($9.0M)2023 Revenue 1464 ($159k) Expenses 197 ($336k) Net assets 131 ($8.8M)2024 Revenue 2955 ($321k) Expenses 188 ($319k) Net assets 131 ($8.8M)2025 Revenue 938 ($102k) Expenses 251 ($427k) Net assets 126 ($8.5M)
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Revenue (938)Expenses (251)Net assets (126)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $7.9M to $9.9M (+26%).

$7.0M
$7.9M
$7.9M
$9.9M
$10M
$11M
$11M
$12M
$11M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

5% of Central Florida Educational Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$159k
’17
$183k
’18
−$57k
’19
$1.8M
’20
$271k
’21
$92k
’22
−$177k
’23
$2k
’24
−$325k
’25
107
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed556747777
Joined·+0+1+1+1+3+0+0+0
No longer listed·00040000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $4k → $2k.

4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $3.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Z Ministries Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Central Florida Educational Foundation Inc raised.

From the IRS filings of Central Florida Educational Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Central Florida Educational Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

94% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Central Florida Educational Foundation Inc.

44%
largest funder
88%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 76% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

94% of Central Florida Educational Foundation Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 2 states.

NY
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $77k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Central Florida Educational Foundation Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−319% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve106.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)32% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Central Florida Educational Foundation Inc

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Florida

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
60%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • Event MinistriesInc · exempt
  • Easter Sunrise Service Inc · exempt
  • Charitable Ministry Support Inc · exempt
  • Z Ministries Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Central Florida Educational Foundation Inc?
Central Florida Educational Foundation Inc (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,067 to it, the largest being INDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($36,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Central Florida Educational Foundation Inc have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $82,067 in grants to Central Florida Educational Foundation Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Central Florida Educational Foundation Inc?
INDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $36,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Central Florida Educational Foundation Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing