Florida · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION FOR NEW EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC
FOUNDATION FOR NEW EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC (Florida) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,662,139 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,537,366). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.1M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $8.7M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Foundation for New Education Initiatives Inc does
Mission
The foundation for new education initiatives, inc. Seeks to enhance student achievement and community engagement in support of education initiatives of miami-dade county public schools. Public education can succeed with the involvemenr and resources from all sectors of the economy and all segments of society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Summer youth internship program: the summer youth internship program (syip) is one of miamidade county public schools' most transformative workforce initiatives, offering thousands of high school students paid, fiveweek, realworld work experiences that build professional skills, expand career pathways, and strengthen the local talent pipeline. In 2025, more than 3,600 students enrolled and completed the program. Interns gained experience across high-demand industries such as healthcare, technology, education, and public service, building career skills that align with the evolving needs of the regional economy.student scholarships: through several scholarship funds, including but not limited to the francis a. Metcalf scholarship fund, fnei scholarship and the dr. Larry and avis feldman family scholarship grant, deserving students receive stipends to help cover the cost of post-secondary education. Over 40 students benefited directly from student scholarships.cultural passport: the cultural passport program is an innovative educational initiative designed to provide miami-dade county public schools' k-12 students with cultural field experiences. In partnership with 28 south florida…
$4,417,797 spentof which $4,324,092 as grants100% of program spendingThe foundation participates in many programs through out the year. These programs have several different funding sources.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,417,797.
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 $4.5M to $6.1M (+36%).
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 47% · 2018 62% · 2019 68% · 2020 77% · 2021 40% · 2022 69% · 2023 77% · 2024 68% · 2025 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of FOUNDATION FOR NEW EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
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
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
Jose L Dotres
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 21 funders, grant income fell $1.8M → $1.5M.
11 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 FOUNDATION FOR NEW EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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
FOUNDATION FOR NEW EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
62% 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 FOUNDATION FOR NEW EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 27% · 2019 35% · 2020 28% · 2021 22% · 2022 20% · 2023 66% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of FOUNDATION FOR NEW EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC'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
85% of FOUNDATION FOR NEW EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
FOUNDATION FOR NEW EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FOUNDATION FOR NEW EDUCATION INITIATIVES 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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOUNDATION FOR NEW EDUCATION INITIATIVES 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 FOUNDATION FOR NEW EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC?
- FOUNDATION FOR NEW EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC (Florida) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,662,139 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,537,366). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR NEW EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $8,662,139 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR NEW EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR NEW EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,537,366 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR NEW EDUCATION INITIATIVES 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 59 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