Florida · Nonprofit
FUTURES INC
FUTURES INC (Florida) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,708,974 to it, the largest being TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN ($700,444). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Futures Inc does
Mission
Mission: "To engage business, civic, and district leaders to promote and achieve educational excellence for Volusia County Public Schools."
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
At various recognition events, futures, inc. Honors and recognizes the outstanding accomplishments of district students and teachers. Student programs include tomorrow's leaders for high school juniors and the turn around program for middle and high school students. In addition, many staff recognition programs are in place, including new teacher pre-service events; principal of the year awards; superintendents's outstanding achievement awards; teacher of the year awards; and first year teacher awards.
$465,651 spentof which $71,427 as grants$14,147 earned by the program51% of program spendingFutures,inc. Is committed to developing programs that generate community support for the funding of scholarships for volusia county public school students in an effort to redirect their lives and enhance their career goals. It also is committed to the funding of school grants for projects relating to low performing students and improving literacy as well as teacher classroom grants for classroom/school projects. School district education foundation matching grant funding as well as community and corporate support are used to fund these programs. The student prepaid scholarships for take stock in children are purchased by the organization from the florida prepaid college foundation through a combination of direct member, local business and community organization sources.
$357,952 spentof which $357,952 as grants39% of program spendingFutures,inc. Is committed to providing continued financial support to qualifying and individual volusia school district employed teachers through the awarding of classroom grants to their schools which are to be used for various classroom projects.
$95,960 spentof which $95,960 as grants10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $919,563.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.8M to $3.1M (+11%).
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 21% · 2018 18% · 2019 14% · 2020 20% · 2021 23% · 2022 26% · 2023 16% · 2024 18% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of FUTURES 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. 0 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.
Chief executive
Shimene Shepard
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $154k → $198k.
6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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: $1.3M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money FUTURES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of FUTURES 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
FUTURES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% 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 FUTURES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 39% · 2019 47% · 2020 33% · 2021 26% · 2022 48% · 2023 41% — 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
58% of FUTURES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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 FUTURES 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. $151k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
FUTURES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FUTURES 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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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
- Volusia County District School Board · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FUTURES 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 FUTURES INC?
- FUTURES INC (Florida) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,708,974 to it, the largest being TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN ($700,444). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FUTURES INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,708,974 in grants to FUTURES INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FUTURES INC?
- TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN is the largest funder on record, with $700,444 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FUTURES 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 22 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