Florida · Nonprofit
POLK TRAINING CENTER INC
POLK TRAINING CENTER INC (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,431 to it, the largest being Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation ($33,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $97k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $801k
What Polk Training Center Inc does
Mission
To provide employment and continual learning opportunities for adults with disabilities in a public arena; providing appropriate instruction and accommodations to facilitate success in individual independence and community-wide service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Providing employment for handicapped citizens in polk county, florida formerly through plant sales and landscaping services, currently through educational classes.
$96,210 spent83% of program spendingProviding employment for handicapped citizens in polk county, florida through educational classes.
$19,360 spent17% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $115,570.
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 2022 to 2023, from $370k to $940k (+154%).
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.
45% of POLK TRAINING CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $140.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 POLK TRAINING CENTER 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
POLK TRAINING CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 81% · 2021 61% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
POLK TRAINING CENTER INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
POLK TRAINING CENTER INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,074 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 employment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding POLK TRAINING CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $29k on record.
- FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $29k
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 POLK TRAINING CENTER 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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for POLK TRAINING CENTER 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 POLK TRAINING CENTER INC?
- POLK TRAINING CENTER INC (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,431 to it, the largest being Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation ($33,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does POLK TRAINING CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $40,431 in grants to POLK TRAINING CENTER INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POLK TRAINING CENTER INC?
- Homer and Annette Thompson Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $33,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POLK TRAINING CENTER 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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