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FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING PROGRAM INTERNATIONAL INC
FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING PROGRAM INTERNATIONAL INC (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $308,942 to it, the largest being PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ($151,022). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $309k
- Net assets
- $919k
What Future Problem Solving Program International Inc does
Mission
Future problem solving proudly celebrates more than 50 years of placing close to a million young people at the core of a dynamic, purposeful learning experience. Each year k-12 students from around the world participate in a variety of challenges designed to empower curious youth to become changemakers. Problem solvers learn how to think, not what to think, and gain the skills they need to succeed in work and life. Our programs build confidence and foster student voices. Founded by dr. Torrance in 1974, our program integrates the six-step creative problem-solving process by alex osborn and sidney parnes with high-interest, futuristic topics. We offer four annual programs for both teams and individuals. Global issues: students become mini-experts and predict possibilities for the future. Community projects: students learn to turn interests into action and create lasting change. Creative writing: students write a creative, futuristic scenario based on a competition topic. Storytelling: s
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Future problem solving ignites curiosity about real-world issues and equips young people with essential, complex problem-solving skills needed to thrive in school, careers, and life. Through dynamic academic challenges, fps empowers students to become creative and critical thinkers who envision, and take action toward, a better future. Our annual international conference showcases this mission in action. The event brings together students from around the world to collaborate, innovate, and compete at the world finals. This event clebrates critical and creative thinking, teamwork, and global citizenship. In 2025, the conference hosted 2,340 participants representing 262 schools across 11 countries. Post-event evaluations reflected outstanding impact - 95% of attendees agreed that the experience was truly unique and unavailable anywhere else.
$899,426 spent$1,397,717 earned by the program62% of program spendingThe center for creative learning is built on more than five decades of research, development, and field experience worldwide. A wide variety of offerings include high-quality web-based and print resources, e-learning opportunities, workshops, and consulting services on creativity and creative problem solving. Our work focuses on methods and tools for generating ideas ("creative thinking"), focusing ideas ("critical thinking"), and systematic approaches to defining and solving complex, open-ended, real-life problems (creative problem solving, version 6.1).
$1,049 spent$144 earned by the program0% of program spendingOur educational outcomes are transformative, equipping young people to solve complex problems, take meaningful action, and drive positive change. We spark curiosity about real-world issues, developing problem-solving skills that empower students to excel in school, careers, and life. In an age defined by ai, it's essential that students learn how to think and solve problems. Future problem solving addresses today's unprecedented challenges with standards-based programs that engage students wherever they learn, teaching them how to think, not what to think. Our rubric-based evaluations provide valuable, learner-centered feedback, allowing students to continually improve through authentic, skill-based assessments from certified evaluators across multiple submissions each year.
$561,940 spentof which $8,003 as grants$32,913 earned by the program38% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,462,415.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.5M to $795k (−46%).
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: 2020 3% · 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $49k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING PROGRAM INTERNATIONAL 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
FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING PROGRAM INTERNATIONAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING PROGRAM INTERNATIONAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 84% · 2023 85% — 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.
Where its funders are
FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING PROGRAM INTERNATIONAL INC draws 83% 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. $128k 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.
Organizations like FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING PROGRAM INTERNATIONAL INC
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In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 1 related entity
- Center for Creative Learning LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING PROGRAM INTERNATIONAL 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 FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING PROGRAM INTERNATIONAL INC?
- FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING PROGRAM INTERNATIONAL INC (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $308,942 to it, the largest being PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ($151,022). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING PROGRAM INTERNATIONAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $308,942 in grants to FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING PROGRAM INTERNATIONAL INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING PROGRAM INTERNATIONAL INC?
- PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $151,022 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING PROGRAM INTERNATIONAL 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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