Florida · Nonprofit
CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION
CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION (Florida) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,835,404 to it, the largest being BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ($6,411,500). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year. CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- Revenue FY2026
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $119M
Hosts funds for others
CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programCENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$69M
Recipients
434
Contributions on record
$15M
Donors on record
49
Payments out run 4.5x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $80M to $138M (+72%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 3% · 2022 0% · 2023 17% · 2024 26% · 2025 3% · 2026 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Mark Brewer
President/CEO
Board chair
John Martinez
Chair
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $3.7M.
15 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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: $591k from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Valencia College Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 funders by total. 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.
Where its funders are
CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Government funding CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6k on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $6k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Community Foundation of Central Fl LLC · disregarded
- Cff I LLC · disregarded
- Isleworth Community Trust Inc · exempt
- Lake Community Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION?
- CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION (Florida) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,835,404 to it, the largest being BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ($6,411,500). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year. CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $14,835,404 in grants to CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION?
- BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,411,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 40 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing