Florida · Nonprofit
Connections High School & Vocational Center Inc
Connections High School & Vocational Center Inc (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $871,353 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($810,800). 1 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
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $871k
- Net assets
- $-172942
What Connections High School & Vocational Center Inc does
Mission
Connections envisions a world where everyone is given the opportunity to achieve their full potential and where students with autism can access the specialized, caring instruction and therapies they need to become productive members of their families and community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Connections weaves together functional academics, targeted therapies and vocational training to help students ages 14-22 transition into adulthood. Education takes place in the classroom, the life skills center and in the larger community where the students spend time learning many of the skills necessary for everyday life. The vocational program gives students the opportunity to learn relevant job skills in their real work envirnments. In Connections Adult Day Traning Program, clients over the age of 22 are provided a safe, structured, and supportive environment. Connections plays a unique role among organizations that serve the ASD community by incorporating the whole family into the educational process. We provide a lifelong, family-centered partnership both in and out of school. Our innovative Health, Wellness and Aquatics Program addresses students unique fitness, nutrition and water safety needs. Our school nurse program, initially funded by the Quantum Foundation, continues to be an integral part of this program. In addition, community-based continued on Schedule O
$1,407,095 spent$1,226,767 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,407,095.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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 $91k to $1.3M (+1277%).
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: 2018 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 0% · 2023 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of Connections High School & Vocational Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Debra Johnson
Exec Dir/Principal
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $20k → $150k.
2 of 3 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.
From the IRS filings of Connections High School & Vocational Center 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
Connections High School & Vocational Center Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Connections High School & Vocational Center Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 51% · 2022 93% · 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 Connections High School & Vocational Center 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 $53k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Florida funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $819k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
Connections High School & Vocational Center Inc has grown faster than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Connections High School & Vocational Center 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Connections High School & Vocational Center Inc: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Connections High School & Vocational Center Inc?
- Connections High School & Vocational Center Inc (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $871,353 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($810,800). 1 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 Connections High School & Vocational Center Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $871,353 in grants to Connections High School & Vocational Center Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Connections High School & Vocational Center Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $810,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Connections High School & Vocational Center 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 3 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