Florida · Nonprofit
POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP INC
POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP INC (Florida) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,673,420 to it, the largest being TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN ($760,346). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $24M
What Polk Education Foundation and Business Partnership Inc does
Mission
To establish a proactive partnership between the community and the public school system to link community resources with the educational needs of its students through reading and mentoring programs, scholarships, school grants and other education endeavors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Scholarships - in our annual scholarship program, donors decide the criteria used for selection, most focus on need and or academic ability. Awarded funds generally go directly to the institution rather than the student. Part of our scholarship program is our take stock in children (tsic) program, which not only provides a 2 or 4 year tuition scholarship for students in financial need, but each recipient is also matched with a mentor while they are in high school and gets to take advantage of other tsic support services such as study skills workshops, free cultural experiences and college tours.
$820,345 spentof which $820,345 as grants33% of program spendingAmericorps polk reads - provides one-on-one reading tutoring to kindergarten - third grade students deemed below grade level by their classroom teacher. Trained reading tutors work with the teacher to determine skills taught and strategies used. Tutoring takes place during the school day in the child's regular reading block to avoid transportation issues to a tutoring program held before or after school. Most children that have been tutored in this program have gained at least one grade level in reading, most two. Additionally, tutors provide community service hours related to literacy.
$665,225 spentof which $665,225 as grants26% of program spendingGrants - the polk education foundation provides grants to assist schools in various capacities. The grant programs administered were: the teacher to teacher connection, which helps share innovative teaching practices and provides grant monies to classrooms to replicate those practices; stem education grants, which provide supply money for stem lessons taught as part of the required curriculum; school matching grants, which offered a match for schools to use to raise local dollars to support literacy, low performers, professional development for teachers or graduation rate needs at their school.
$626,799 spentof which $626,799 as grants25% of program spendingGeneral - various award programs and direct assistance projects involving students/teachers directed towards motivating and rewarding various educational objectives.
$113,352 spentof which $111,518 as grants5% of program spendingTake stock in children, inc. Is a mentoring, college readiness, and college scholarship program dedicated to transforming polk county one student at a time. The mission of the program is to break the cycle of poverty for low-income, underrepresented, academically qualified students by providing opportunities for degree attainment through postsecondary education. Wraparound services are provided to students which include mentoring, coaching, and virtual workshops through an innovative multi-year model from high school through postsecondary completion. Take stock helps give students the resources they need to succeed in high school, college, career, and life. Upon successful graduation of high school, tsic scholars earn a two-year florida prepaid scholarship to use at any public accredited florida state college, university, or technical college.
$287,884 spentof which $287,884 as grants11% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,513,605.
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 2024 to 2025, from $12M to $24M (+99%).
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 17% · 2018 20% · 2019 24% · 2020 26% · 2021 31% · 2022 24% · 2023 13% · 2024 23% · 2025 8%. 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.
Chief executive
Tracy Porter
Executive director (as of 8/24)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $266k → $268k.
6 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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: $2.7M from 7 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 POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP INC raised.
From the IRS filings of POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 funders by total. 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
POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
61% 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 POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 52% · 2019 35% · 2020 31% · 2021 31% · 2022 18% · 2023 24% — 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
47% of POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
82% of POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP 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. $215k 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.
Organizations like POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP 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
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Polk County School Board · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP INC?
- POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP INC (Florida) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,673,420 to it, the largest being TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN ($760,346). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP INC have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $2,673,420 in grants to POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP INC?
- TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN is the largest funder on record, with $760,346 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POLK EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP 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 36 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