Florida · Nonprofit
DESTIN HIGH SCHOOL INC
DESTIN HIGH SCHOOL INC (Florida) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,422 to it, the largest being THE MARGARET FINKEL FOUNDATION ($65,625). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.4M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $174k
- Net assets
- $-634674
What Destin High School Inc does
Mission
The mission of destin high school is to prepare students academically, physically, and mentally to become responsible, productive, empowered citizens. Embracing the areas history as a tourist destination, military hub, and worlds luckiest fishing village and supported by strong public/ private partnerships, our diverse and specialized programs will provide the foundation each student needs to secure a solid future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Destin high school provides educational services to approximately 550 students in grades 912. The schools diverse and specialized programs will provide the foundation each student needs to secure a solid future.
$6,461,857 spent$6,432,701 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,461,857.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $248k to $11M (+4189%).
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 0% · 2022 16% · 2023 7% · 2024 4% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of DESTIN HIGH SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Donald Williams
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $35k → $71k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 DESTIN HIGH SCHOOL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 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.
How concentrated its funding is
DESTIN HIGH SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 65% — diversifying over time.
“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
56% of DESTIN HIGH SCHOOL INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
DESTIN HIGH SCHOOL INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding DESTIN HIGH SCHOOL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $2k
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 DESTIN HIGH SCHOOL 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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DESTIN HIGH SCHOOL 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 DESTIN HIGH SCHOOL INC?
- DESTIN HIGH SCHOOL INC (Florida) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,422 to it, the largest being THE MARGARET FINKEL FOUNDATION ($65,625). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DESTIN HIGH SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $174,422 in grants to DESTIN HIGH SCHOOL INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DESTIN HIGH SCHOOL INC?
- THE MARGARET FINKEL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $65,625 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DESTIN HIGH SCHOOL 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 13 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