Florida · Nonprofit
SCIENTISTS SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
SCIENTISTS SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $193,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($123,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $66k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $194k
- Net assets
- $96k
What Scientists Society of Southwest Florida does
Mission
Promote STEM education in SW Florida
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Ding Darling WOW (Wing on Wheels) program. Ding Darling Refuge has modified a large vehicle to house a wonderful array of hands on science displays. Students spend at least 2 weeks on site at Title 1 schools. While there, classes cycle through every 45 minutes. During that time students connect what they are learning in their class curriculum with the science displays.
$0 spentof which $10,000 as grantsFlorida Gulf Coast University programs. We continue to fund $2000 to the GEMS (Girls in Engineering, Math, and Science) program targeted at middle girls. The classes are held 4 Saturdays during the school year. Also we funded 2 summer camps at $2000 each-Coding and Mathletes Summer Camps are for middle school students.
$0 spentof which $6,000 as grantsEdison-Ford Winter Estates Programs. We sponsored 1 week of summer camp as well as scholarships to other weeks at Edison-Ford for $5000. We also donated $1000 to the Robotics team.
$0 spentof which $6,000 as grants
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $61k to $79k (+28%).
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.
97% of SCIENTISTS SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $50k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 SCIENTISTS SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA’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
SCIENTISTS SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% 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
64% 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 SCIENTISTS SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 67% · 2023 80% — 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
64% of SCIENTISTS SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA'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 $70k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $124k 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
SCIENTISTS SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,807 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,807 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like SCIENTISTS SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
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.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SCIENTISTS SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: 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 SCIENTISTS SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA?
- SCIENTISTS SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $193,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($123,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SCIENTISTS SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $193,500 in grants to SCIENTISTS SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCIENTISTS SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $123,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCIENTISTS SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA 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 FY2026 (financials across 2024–2026), and the filings of 2 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing