Florida · Nonprofit
FLORIDA SPRINGS COUNCIL INC
FLORIDA SPRINGS COUNCIL INC (Florida) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $302,814 to it, the largest being FELBURN FOUNDATION ($125,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $353k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $303k
- Net assets
- $166k
What Florida Springs Council Inc does
Mission
Florida Springs, River, and Aquifer protection
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education: FSC coordinates a collaborative network of over 60 environmental education and advocacy organizations. FSC prepares and distributes technically sound education information and resources to members, the public, agency staff, and decision-makers. In 2025, FSC educated tens of thousands of Floridians virtually, and over a thousand in-person, on springs science and research, threats to Florida's water resources, and personal and governmental actions that can preserve and protect Florida's springs from over-pumping, nutrient pollution, and irresponsible recreation.
$64,960 spentof which $9,994 as grants28% of program spendingEnvironmental Advocacy: FSC coordinates and leads statewide and regional advocacy campaigns to protect Florida's springs from development, pollution, excessive water withdrawals, and recreational overuse. FSC's work focuses on 30 Outstanding Florida Springs and Rivers identified in Florida Statute. FSC assists community members, local governments, and agency personnel in developing policies to protect Florida's springs and oppose decisions that would harm Florida's springs. In 2025, FSC had a major role in the drafting and adoption of several county urban fertilizer ordinances, the Santa Fe River Minimum Flow and Level Recovery Strategy, and Basin Management Action Plans for 26 impaired Outstanding Florida Springs. FSC leads multiple efforts to protect and conserve lands at risk of development in central and north Florida. FSC provides technical and advocacy support to individuals and local groups in rural and underserved areas under threat of development, pollution, or excessive water withdrawals.
$109,272 spent46% of program spendingLegal Advocacy: FSC provides expert and legal support to member organizations and individuals on legal issues including: water quality restoration plans, recovery and prevention strategies, water use permitting, public access, and local land use . In 2025, FSC challenged a Department of Environmental Protection water use permitting rule that violated Florida Statutes and two basin management action plans that failed to meet statutory requirements for reducing nitrogen pollution. FSC conducted legal research on a number of topics, including consumptive use permitting rule development, recreational usage, and water supply plans which is provided at no charge to our member organizations and interested individuals. FSC partners with the University of Florida and Stetson College of Law environmental law clinics.
$61,327 spent26% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $235,559.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $123k to $166k (+34%).
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 6% · 2024 16% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of FLORIDA SPRINGS COUNCIL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Ryan Smart
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $25k → $50k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 SPRINGS COUNCIL 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 SPRINGS COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 SPRINGS COUNCIL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 81% · 2020 100% · 2021 56% · 2022 100% · 2023 43% — 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
50% of FLORIDA SPRINGS COUNCIL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
FLORIDA SPRINGS COUNCIL INC draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 SPRINGS COUNCIL INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FLORIDA SPRINGS COUNCIL 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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FLORIDA SPRINGS COUNCIL 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 SPRINGS COUNCIL INC?
- FLORIDA SPRINGS COUNCIL INC (Florida) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $302,814 to it, the largest being FELBURN FOUNDATION ($125,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FLORIDA SPRINGS COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $302,814 in grants to FLORIDA SPRINGS COUNCIL INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FLORIDA SPRINGS COUNCIL INC?
- FELBURN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FLORIDA SPRINGS COUNCIL 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.
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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 2021–2025), and the filings of 9 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