Florida · Nonprofit
FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE SCIENTISTS INC
FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE SCIENTISTS INC (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($9,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $144k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $392k
What Florida Foundation for Future Scientists Inc does
Mission
A primary mission of the florida foundation for future scientists (fffs) is to foster and encourage florida's talented young people to pursue careers in stem (science, technology, engineering, and math) research. It is an accepted belief that recognition and reward provide a significant impetus to youthful researchers in academic pursuits. The annual state science and engineering fair (ssef) of florida is an appropriate vehicle through which to accomplish this mission.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Annually, more than 250,000 kindergartens through twelfth grade students statewide participate in science fair events leading to regional science and engineering fair (rsef) participation. Events usually are held in january. There are 37 geographically delimited regions incorporating 67 florida counties. More than 20,000 students from kindergarten through twelfth grade exhibit at rsef usually meet during february and march. Usually in may of each year, florida ninth through twelfth grade students complete across the nation and around the world. Adults also attend as regional fair directors, judges and parents. There is a representativefrom florida on the advisory council for the international science and engineering fair and the executive director is a member of the best practices committee for isef.
$166,541 spentof which $10,877 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $166,541.
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.
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 $304k to $405k (+33%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 FUTURE SCIENTISTS 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 FUTURE SCIENTISTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% 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 FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE SCIENTISTS 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
90% of FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE SCIENTISTS 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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Florida funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k 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.
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In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
96%
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 FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE SCIENTISTS 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 FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE SCIENTISTS INC?
- FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE SCIENTISTS INC (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($9,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE SCIENTISTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,000 in grants to FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE SCIENTISTS INC.
- Who is the largest funder of FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE SCIENTISTS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $9,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE SCIENTISTS 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