Florida · Nonprofit
EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC
EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC (Florida) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,919,392 to it, the largest being COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($4,257,899). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Education Foundation of Collier County Inc does
Mission
The mission of the education foundation of collier county, also known as champions for learning, is to serve as a catalyst for educational success by investing in collier's students and educators. This mission is reflected (continued on schedule o)in their commitment to creating life-changing earning experiences for every student and supporting educators to ensure the highest impact learning experiences for every child. They focus on empowering students to choose and navigate their own paths to success and providing educators with the support and resources to experience professional success
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Student programs:student programs include two complementary spheres: college/career access and occupation-based learning/skill-building and are designed to equip and prepare students for their future learning and career goals. The college and career preparation program introduces 9th and 10th grade students to the various options that are available to them post-graduation, including technical career paths and a broad range of post-secondary education opportunities, and then incorporates more vigorous workshops and working lab sessions for 11th and 12th grade students to gain valuable experience in how to navigate the college admissions and financial aid processes, build leadership and foundational skills, (continued on schedule o)and develop personalized roadmaps to not only achieve post-secondary credentials and/or degree attainment but to do so as close to debt free as possible. Take stock in children is an academically focused mentoring program for high school students who come from households classified as low income that engages volunteer mentors who meet with students regularly during the school year and provide guidance, motivation, support, and role-modeling to grow the…
$1,459,376 spent$126,165 earned by the program64% of program spendingEducator programs:educator programs are designed to value, empower, and support educators across traditional public, charter, and private schools to experience professional success. The classroom grants program is a competitive grant application process which provides awarded educators with funding for classroom supplies or equipment, local field trips, enrichment activities, school-wide initiatives, and other innovative classroom projects not covered under the school's budget that encourage deeper learning and engagement for students. Golden apple is an educator recognition program that unites the community in honoring and celebrating a select cohort of teachers each school year who exemplify teaching excellence.
$764,931 spentof which $452,958 as grants34% of program spendingCommunity engagement:recognized as the education foundation serving collier county by the consortium of florida education foundations, champions for learning serves as a unifying force within the community by driving collective action towards the common goal of student and educator success. To carry out our work, champions for learning partners with several state-wide networks, along with countless local community nonprofits, businesses, and volunteers. Champions for learning is committed to working closely with collier county public schools, ensuring that we are meeting the unique needs of our school district through our programming. We help facilitate collier county public school's high school entrepreneurship program, (continued on schedule o)which offers unique classes where students collaborate in teams to develop a viable and marketable product or servicechampions for learning recruits, trains, and retains volunteers, many of whom are either current or retired business professionals in the community, as mentors, coaches, and judges for the program. As a volunteer-driven organization, we rely on nearly 450 individuals who give their time, dedicating over 6,700 hours to…
$50,653 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,274,960.
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 2024 to 2025, from $7.1M to $11M (+53%).
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 6% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Barbara Evans
CEO/president through 04/25
Board chair
Martha Rozman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $639k → $3.6M.
21 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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: $212k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Moorings Incorporated). These are real filings, and they are not money EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 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
EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
84% 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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 28% · 2019 21% · 2020 20% · 2021 25% · 2022 32% · 2023 45% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
42% of EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
75% of EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY 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. $6.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY 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
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY 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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC?
- EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC (Florida) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,919,392 to it, the largest being COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($4,257,899). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $14,919,392 in grants to EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC?
- COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,257,899 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY 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 57 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