Florida · Nonprofit
Crystal Springs Foundation Inc
Crystal Springs Foundation Inc (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $222,000 to it, the largest being GIVEWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($220,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $515k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $222k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Crystal Springs Foundation Inc does
Mission
Crystal springs foundation is dedicated to the conservation and stewardship of florida's unique natural resources, specifically the hillsborough river watershed, for the benefit of future generations.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Environmental Education - Crystal Springs Foundation Inc. was formed in 2005 for the primary purposes of: 1 providing leadership in environmental education for grades 3 - college lifelong learning and teacher training; 2 providing conservation and stewardship of approximately 525 acres of wildlife corridor along the Hillsborough River and Crystal Springs systems in Pasco County through informed watershed land and biodiversity management; and 3 promoting public awareness of the need to enhance conservation efforts of Floridas diverse habitats through community outreach and engagement to benefit future generations. During 2025 Crystal Springs Foundation provided more than 630 direct instructional hours to over 10,100 students from 216 schools* and hosted more than 170 volunteers who assisted us with habitat restoration and invasive plant removal. *Includes schools with mul??ple visits.
$217,000 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
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.
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 $1.7M to $1.5M (−12%).
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.
82% of Crystal Springs Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Robert M Thomas
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $55k → $500.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 Crystal Springs 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
Crystal Springs Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
99% 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 Crystal Springs Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 99% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
99% of Crystal Springs 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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $220k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Crystal Springs Foundation Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Crystal Springs Foundation Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $159 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $159
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.
Organizations like Crystal Springs 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Crystal Springs Foundation 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 Crystal Springs Foundation Inc?
- Crystal Springs Foundation Inc (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $222,000 to it, the largest being GIVEWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($220,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Crystal Springs Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $222,000 in grants to Crystal Springs Foundation Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Crystal Springs Foundation Inc?
- GIVEWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $220,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Crystal Springs 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 2 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