Florida · Nonprofit
FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR CORRECTIONAL EXCELLENCE INC
FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR CORRECTIONAL EXCELLENCE INC (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,715 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($80,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $827k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $131k
- Net assets
- $82k
What Florida Foundation for Correctional Excellence Inc does
Mission
The purpose of the foundation is to serve as a catalyst to identify and address critical issues which impact public safety, programs, and the reentry of inmates and offenders who are under the supervision of the florida department of corrections. The corporation will bridge the gap between community resources and reentry needs by connecting private and public partners, thereby increasing investment in public correctional re-entry and workforce training programs that support public safety and healthy florida communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Florida foundation for correctional excellence (ffce) supports and advances the mission of the florida department of corrections (fdc) by enhancing programs that improve rehabilitation, reentry, and public safety outcomes.ffce invests in initiatives identified and prioritized by fdc to expand career readiness, job placement, industry credentialing, and educational opportunities for incarcerated and supervised individuals. The organization facilitates the development and delivery of certificate and training programs aligned with workforce needs and reentry success.at the request of fdc, ffce is further engaged in strengthening community and employer partnerships to enhance in-facility programming and create direct labor pipelines for reentry. Ffce also provides resources and material support for educational and technical training initiatives identified by the fdc as essential to workforce preparation and successful reintegration.
$670,956 spentof which $349,446 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $670,956.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $352k to $707k (+101%).
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: 2023 95% · 2024 84% · 2025 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR CORRECTIONAL EXCELLENCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
Erica Spivey
Executive director
Board chair
Kevin Gay
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR CORRECTIONAL EXCELLENCE 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 FOUNDATION FOR CORRECTIONAL EXCELLENCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% 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 FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR CORRECTIONAL EXCELLENCE INC.
“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
61% of FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR CORRECTIONAL EXCELLENCE 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 $51k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80k 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
FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR CORRECTIONAL EXCELLENCE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR CORRECTIONAL EXCELLENCE 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Florida Department of Corrections · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR CORRECTIONAL EXCELLENCE INC?
- FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR CORRECTIONAL EXCELLENCE INC (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,715 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($80,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR CORRECTIONAL EXCELLENCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $130,715 in grants to FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR CORRECTIONAL EXCELLENCE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR CORRECTIONAL EXCELLENCE INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR CORRECTIONAL EXCELLENCE 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 2023–2025), 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