Florida · Nonprofit
SEMINOLE BOOSTERS INC
SEMINOLE BOOSTERS INC (Florida) receives grants from 97 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,705,815 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,642,358). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $82M
- Funders on record
- 97
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $135M
What Seminole Boosters Inc does
Mission
Seminole boosters, inc. Was created as a not-for-profit organization to stimulate and promote the education, health, and physical welfare of the student of florida state university by providing financial support for the intercollegiate athletic program at fsu.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Expenditures include disbursements made to florida state university department of athletics, disbursements made to florida state university, and transfers to fsu financial assistance. These disbursements include, athletic development fund payments to supplement athletic department salaries, operating transfers to help pay student athlete scholarships, on behalf of disbursements to support various other sport needs, university presidental transfers to supplement the fundraising efforts of the university president, restricted disbursements made by individual sports from specific restricted accounts to allow continued increased performance in each sport, and transfers of funds collected to pay the debt service of fsu financial assistance.
$18,579,219 spentof which $3,337,364 as grants28% of program spendingOther expenditures include disbursements made for capital projects completed for the florida state university department of athletics as well as facilities maintenance expenses incurred to keep facilities functional during the fiscal year.
$2,495,497 spent4% of program spendingOther program expenditures include disbursements that further the mission of the seminole boosters, including expenses for various banquets and events, spring tour expenditures, costs to administer the royalty program, additional scholarship expenditures, as well as various other expenditures that promote the education, health and physical welfare of students at florida state university.
$46,260,789 spent69% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $67,335,505.
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 2018 to 2019, from $255M to $313M (+23%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2021 2% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of SEMINOLE BOOSTERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Stephen Ponder
CEO/president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose $762k → $3.2M.
32 of 97 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 SEMINOLE BOOSTERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 97 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
SEMINOLE BOOSTERS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
67% 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 SEMINOLE BOOSTERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 57% · 2019 33% · 2020 34% · 2021 51% · 2022 18% · 2023 16% — 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
35% of SEMINOLE BOOSTERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
66% of SEMINOLE BOOSTERS 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 $7.8M that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
SEMINOLE BOOSTERS INC's revenue grew 43% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding SEMINOLE BOOSTERS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $2k
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 SEMINOLE BOOSTERS 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 8 related entities
- T'Alley Properties · disregarded
- Collegetown Investment Fund LLC · disregarded
- Fsu Financial Assistance Inc · exempt
- Florida State University · exempt
- The Florida State University Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SEMINOLE BOOSTERS 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 SEMINOLE BOOSTERS INC?
- SEMINOLE BOOSTERS INC (Florida) receives grants from 97 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,705,815 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,642,358). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SEMINOLE BOOSTERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 97 organizations giving $22,705,815 in grants to SEMINOLE BOOSTERS INC, 56 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEMINOLE BOOSTERS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,642,358 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEMINOLE BOOSTERS 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 97 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