Florida · Nonprofit
FLORIDA CITRUS SPORTS EVENTS INC
FLORIDA CITRUS SPORTS EVENTS INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $841,801 to it, the largest being ARNOLD & WINNIE PALMER FOUNDATION INC ($800,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $842k
- Net assets
- $10M
What Florida Citrus Sports Events Inc does
Mission
To develop and manage world-class athletic competitions and supporting events that contribute to the motivation and enjoyment of central florida sports fans, increase community pride and stimulate the local economy; while benefitting charities, educational institutions and the florida citrus sports foundation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Florida citrus sports events (fcse) provides the management and the administrative support for the annual pop-tarts bowl and cheez it citrus bowl games, which are hosted by the related tax-exempt organizations tangerine sports association, inc. And florida citrus sports association, inc., and the florida classic (hbcu college football game). These events provide national exposure to the central florida community, while generating over $100 million of economic impact for the region. From the revenues generated by the two bowl games, the four universities participating received a payout in 2024, totaling $14.43 million. Fcse annually manages the florida classic for both florida a&m and bethune-cookman university. In 2024, the event managed to produce $2.811 million of total revenue for the schools to share due to partner support as well as fundraising efforts.fcse is a membership based organization whose members volunteer their time to the organization and thus the central florida region year-round. 200 members volunteered to serve as event day staff, bowl scouts, committee members and/or donated their time to the florida citrus sports foundation.
$12,618,184 spentof which $1,132,811 as grants$16,603,944 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,618,184.
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 2023 to 2024, from $25M to $32M (+27%).
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 8% · 2022 4% · 2023 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of FLORIDA CITRUS SPORTS EVENTS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
Steve Hogan
CEO
Board chair
Steven Castino
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $210k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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: $2.3M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Florida Sports Foundation Incorporated). These are real filings, and they are not money FLORIDA CITRUS SPORTS EVENTS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of FLORIDA CITRUS SPORTS EVENTS 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
FLORIDA CITRUS SPORTS EVENTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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 FLORIDA CITRUS SPORTS EVENTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 95% · 2023 95% — 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
100% of FLORIDA CITRUS SPORTS EVENTS 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. $41k 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
FLORIDA CITRUS SPORTS EVENTS INC is better cushioned than half of the 184 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 184 recreation & sports nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like FLORIDA CITRUS SPORTS EVENTS 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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Florida Citrus Sports Association Inc · exempt
- Florida Citrus Sports Foundation Inc · exempt
- Tangerine Sports Association Inc · exempt
- Florida Citrus Sports Ventures Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FLORIDA CITRUS SPORTS EVENTS 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 FLORIDA CITRUS SPORTS EVENTS INC?
- FLORIDA CITRUS SPORTS EVENTS INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $841,801 to it, the largest being ARNOLD & WINNIE PALMER FOUNDATION INC ($800,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FLORIDA CITRUS SPORTS EVENTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $841,801 in grants to FLORIDA CITRUS SPORTS EVENTS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FLORIDA CITRUS SPORTS EVENTS INC?
- ARNOLD & WINNIE PALMER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FLORIDA CITRUS SPORTS EVENTS 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 5 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