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Florida Fruit & Vegetable Research & Education Foundation Inc
Florida Fruit & Vegetable Research & Education Foundation Inc (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,133 to it, the largest being DAVID & LORNA GLADSTONE FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $486k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Florida Fruit & Vegetable Research & Education Foundation Inc does
Mission
Ffva research and education foundation benefits the general public through initiatives that provide solutions to challenges facing specialty crop producers and their stakeholders.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Emerging leader class xii & xiii - identified next generation of leaders in florida agriculture and equip them with knowledge of issues affecting agriculture, education and tools to deal with those issues, prepare them to improve the sustainability and economic viability of specialty crop agriculture, improve grassroots engagement, and improvements in ffva and other industry organizations.
$104,429 spent$22,000 earned by the program36% of program spendingAg labor forum - annual agricultural labor relations forum for industry updates and labor relations advice from experts. Presents workshops to help employers understand the laws and regulations that govern the agricultural workforce.
$101,927 spent$80,315 earned by the program35% of program spendingEpm outreach - the foundation provides educational opportunities such as field tours, workshops, and other events to teach various groups about laws and regulations that impact the agriculture industry.
$5,446 spent2% of program spendingOther program services
$81,895 spentof which $58,750 as grants$2,920 earned by the program28% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $293,697.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.2M to $1.4M (+13%).
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: 2017 70% · 2018 60% · 2019 18% · 2020 24% · 2021 29% · 2022 27% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of Florida Fruit & Vegetable Research & Education Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (79% 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.
Board chair
Tracy Duda Chapman
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $18 → $32.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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: $9k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Florida Fruit & Vegetable Research & Education Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Florida Fruit & Vegetable Research & Education Foundation Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Florida Fruit & Vegetable Research & Education Foundation 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 Fruit & Vegetable Research & Education Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
Florida Fruit & Vegetable Research & Education Foundation Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $133 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 Fruit & Vegetable Research & Education Foundation Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 793 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Florida Fruit & Vegetable Research & Education Foundation 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 Fruit & Vegetable Research & Education Foundation 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 Fruit & Vegetable Research & Education Foundation Inc?
- Florida Fruit & Vegetable Research & Education Foundation Inc (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,133 to it, the largest being DAVID & LORNA GLADSTONE FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Florida Fruit & Vegetable Research & Education Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,133 in grants to Florida Fruit & Vegetable Research & Education Foundation Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Florida Fruit & Vegetable Research & Education Foundation Inc?
- DAVID & LORNA GLADSTONE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Florida Fruit & Vegetable Research & Education Foundation 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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