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NOKUSE EDUCATION INC

NOKUSE EDUCATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,815,296 to it, the largest being SAM SHINE FOUNDATION INC ($5,005,811). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$71M
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$5.8M
Net assets
$11M
4/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 70%
01What it does

What Nokuse Education Inc does

Mission

Nokuse education strives to create a better world through environ- mental education programs that immerse students in outdoor field work and exploration. Our facility instills naturalistic principles

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Nokuse Education Inc educates approximately 6,000 public school

    $1,180,957 spent$75,329 earned by the program
    1% of program spending
  2. Nokuse education received property and an environmental credit bank

    $86,240,116 spentof which $86,240,116 as grants$68,705,702 earned by the program
    99% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $87,421,073.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($1.8M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($18M)2019 Revenue 224 ($4.0M) Expenses 117 ($1.7M) Net assets 113 ($20M)2020 Revenue 67 ($1.2M) Expenses 118 ($1.7M) Net assets 109 ($20M)2021 Revenue 62 ($1.1M) Expenses 122 ($1.8M) Net assets 105 ($19M)2022 Revenue 258 ($4.6M) Expenses 142 ($2.1M) Net assets 119 ($21M)2023 Revenue 131 ($2.3M) Expenses 149 ($2.2M) Net assets 120 ($21M)2024 Revenue 505 ($8.9M) Expenses 143 ($2.1M) Net assets 158 ($28M)2025 Revenue 4007 ($71M) Expenses 5948 ($88M) Net assets 63 ($11M)
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Revenue (4007)Expenses (5948)Net assets (63)Peer revenue range

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 $28M to $11M (−60%).

$18M
$20M
$20M
$19M
$21M
$21M
$28M
$11M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of NOKUSE EDUCATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$291k
’18
$2.2M
’19
−$563k
’20
−$707k
’21
$2.5M
’22
$107k
’23
$6.8M
’24
−$17M
’25
0.0
months of
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

Nicole Schafer

Exec director

Board chair

Cj Jackson

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed10101010101056
Joined·+0+0+0+1+0+3+1
No longer listed·0001080
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $55k → $410k.

5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 NOKUSE EDUCATION 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

NOKUSE EDUCATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

86%
largest funder
97%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 81% · 2020 56% · 2021 64% · 2022 88% · 2023 76% — 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

29% of NOKUSE EDUCATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

NOKUSE EDUCATION INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 7 states in all.

IL
IN
TN
SC
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $581k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NOKUSE EDUCATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 195 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−24% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)69% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 195 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding NOKUSE EDUCATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50 on record.

State$50
Top programs
  • REFUNDS - GENERAL $50

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 NOKUSE EDUCATION 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds NOKUSE EDUCATION INC?
NOKUSE EDUCATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,815,296 to it, the largest being SAM SHINE FOUNDATION INC ($5,005,811). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NOKUSE EDUCATION INC have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $5,815,296 in grants to NOKUSE EDUCATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NOKUSE EDUCATION INC?
SAM SHINE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,005,811 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NOKUSE EDUCATION 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 16 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