Florida · Nonprofit
IDEA FLORIDA INC
IDEA FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,048,798 to it, the largest being GIVEWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($2,002,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $77M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Idea Florida Inc does
Mission
Idea florida prepares students from underserved communities to be successful college students and responsible citizens by providing educational services to students. Idea florida serves students in grades k-9 and will grow to serve grades k-12 when fully scaled.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Idea public schools believes each and every child can go to college. Since 2000, idea public schools has grown from a small school with 150 students to a national network of tuition-free k-12 public charter schools in the united states. The network currently serves over 80,000 college-bound students in 143 schools. Through small learning groups and daily access to technology, every student learns at the level and speed just right for them. Teachers bring subject matter expertise and an unwavering commitment to set each student on a path to success. Parents, teachers, and administrators work as a team to help each student reach their full potential. For the 2024-2025 academic year, idea florida served 2,563 students across three campuses in the tampa bay area. Idea florida also served 1,869 students at two schools in the jacksonville area. The schools opened with grades k-10 and will grow to serve k-12 when fully scaled.
$68,285,865 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $68,285,865.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $38M to $164M (+328%).
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 100% · 2021 88% · 2022 98% · 2023 50% · 2024 57% · 2025 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of IDEA FLORIDA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Renee Baker
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $776k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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: $75M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest IPS Enterprises Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money IDEA FLORIDA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of IDEA FLORIDA 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
IDEA FLORIDA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 IDEA FLORIDA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% — 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
99% of IDEA FLORIDA INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $26k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Florida funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M 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
IDEA FLORIDA INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding IDEA FLORIDA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.2M on record.
- FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $6.2M
- AID TO OTHERS - GENERAL $18k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $373
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like IDEA FLORIDA 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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Ips Enterprises Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IDEA FLORIDA 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 IDEA FLORIDA INC?
- IDEA FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,048,798 to it, the largest being GIVEWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($2,002,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does IDEA FLORIDA INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $2,048,798 in grants to IDEA FLORIDA INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IDEA FLORIDA INC?
- GIVEWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,002,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IDEA FLORIDA 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 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