Florida · Nonprofit
HIGHLANDS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
HIGHLANDS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $472,698 to it, the largest being THE CONSORTIUM OF FLORIDA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONS INC ($305,068). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $121k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $473k
- Net assets
- $14k
What Highlands County Education Foundation does
Mission
To establish a responsive working relationship between the community and the public school system to link community resources to the educational process. This mission is reflected in the teacher mini-grants and sponsorship of the summit awards program.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Scholarships to high school students
$12,000 spentof which $12,000 as grants10% of program spendingAwards & mini grants to educational personnel of highlands county school board
$104,246 spent90% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $116,246.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $17k to $14k (−14%).
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.
99% of HIGHLANDS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $37k → $49k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 HIGHLANDS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION’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
HIGHLANDS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 HIGHLANDS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 84% · 2019 82% · 2020 67% · 2021 68% · 2022 59% · 2023 75% — 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
94% of HIGHLANDS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
HIGHLANDS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HIGHLANDS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- HIGHLANDS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $472,698 to it, the largest being THE CONSORTIUM OF FLORIDA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONS INC ($305,068). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HIGHLANDS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $472,698 in grants to HIGHLANDS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIGHLANDS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- THE CONSORTIUM OF FLORIDA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONS INC is the largest funder on record, with $305,068 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIGHLANDS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 2024–2025), 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