Florida · Nonprofit
FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE
FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE (Florida) receives grants from 127 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,315,541 to it, the largest being GIVEWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($19,909,202). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $188M
- Funders on record
- 127
- Grants received
- $37M
- Net assets
- $312M
What Florida Southern College does
Mission
Florida Southern College (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see schedule o.)the college enrolls a talented student body and includes an accomplished faculty who are dedicated to teaching excellence. Outstanding opportunities for engaged learning, student-faculty collaborative research and performance, service learning, study abroad, and honors study are distinctive features of the academic program at florida southern. The college offers exceptional student life programs, including a championship athletic program.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Florida Southern College is a private, comprehensive college dedicated to teaching excellence in 60 programs of study for undergraduate students. The college offers 16 master degree programs in business, education, nursing and psychology, along with four doctorate programs in education, nursing, and physical therapy. The college is accredited by the southern association of colleges and schools commission on colleges. In 2024, the college welcomed a freshman class of 762 as part of the institution's 2,605 full-time traditional undergraduate population, representing 47 states and 46 countries and territories. Notably, 81% of these students reside in campus housing. More than 99% receive some form of financial assistance, including 36% who receive pell grants. (see schedule o.)florida southern is nationally recognized for excellence in experiential education. Our engaged learning pedagogy challenges students to deepen their learning and explore their potential. We are proud to provide students with opportunities to apply their learning through student-faculty collaborative research, student musical performances, service learning, civic engagement, internships, and study-abroad…
$154,084,990 spentof which $64,082,198 as grants$156,085,266 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $154,084,990.
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 $309M to $344M (+12%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2022 2% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Robert L Fryer Jr
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 50 funders, grant income rose $2.8M → $3.5M.
24 of 127 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 SOUTHERN COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 127 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
FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 SOUTHERN COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 60% · 2019 59% · 2020 54% · 2021 29% · 2022 35% · 2023 26% — 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.
How long its funders stay
47% of FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
71% of FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE'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 $11M that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26M 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
FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12.6M on record — $12.6M federal, $14k state.
- Department of Education$12.1M
- Department of the Interior$250k
- National Science Foundation$211k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $9k
- PROPERTY RENTAL - NONGOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES $5k
- FEES - GENERAL - COMMODITIES $14
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church · exempt
- Florida United Methodist Foundation Inc · exempt
- Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art at Florida Southern College Inc · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Unitrust (6) · corp_trust
- Pooled Trust (1) · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE?
- FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE (Florida) receives grants from 127 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,315,541 to it, the largest being GIVEWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($19,909,202). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 127 organizations giving $37,315,541 in grants to FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE, 75 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE?
- GIVEWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $19,909,202 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE 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.
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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 127 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