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Shirley Proctor Puller Foundation Inc

Shirley Proctor Puller Foundation Inc (Florida) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,158,837 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC ($802,835). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$2.9M
Funders on record
29
Grants received
$4.2M
Net assets
$1.8M
13/29 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Shirley Proctor Puller Foundation Inc does

Mission

The mission is to advance literacy and help close the achievement gap for students in South St.Petersburg. The vision is a fully engaged, highly literate youth population who have achieved excellence in reading, math science, resulting in unlimited postgraduate opportunities.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $1,912,296 spentof which $6,704 as grants$26,170 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,912,296.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($129k) Expenses 100 ($115k) Net assets 100 ($28k)2018 Revenue 97 ($126k) Expenses 123 ($141k) Net assets 43 ($12k)2019 Revenue 138 ($179k) Expenses 198 ($227k) Net assets -137 ($-37681)2020 Revenue 546 ($707k) Expenses 488 ($562k) Net assets 387 ($107k)2021 Revenue 1037 ($1.3M) Expenses 785 ($904k) Net assets 1976 ($545k)2022 Revenue 1175 ($1.5M) Expenses 1198 ($1.4M) Net assets 2488 ($686k)2023 Revenue 1544 ($2.0M) Expenses 1448 ($1.7M) Net assets 3685 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 2232 ($2.9M) Expenses 1868 ($2.2M) Net assets 6359 ($1.8M)
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Revenue (2232)Expenses (1868)Net assets (6359)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 2023 to 2024, from $1.0M to $1.8M (+72%).

$28k
$12k
$94k
$128k
$560k
$705k
$1.0M
$1.8M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 55% · 2022 63% · 2023 50% · 2024 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of Shirley Proctor Puller Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$14k
’17
−$16k
’18
−$49k
’19
$144k
’20
$438k
’21
$141k
’22
$330k
’23
$737k
’24
3.2
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

Bridgette Heller

CEO

Board chair

Mario Farias

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20202021202220232024
Listed1012121313
Joined·+3+3+1+3
No longer listed·1303
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $160k → $870k.

10 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 Shirley Proctor Puller Foundation 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

Shirley Proctor Puller Foundation Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

74% 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 Shirley Proctor Puller Foundation Inc.

19%
largest funder
54%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 58% · 2021 38% · 2022 43% · 2023 35% — 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

71% of Shirley Proctor Puller Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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

53% of Shirley Proctor Puller Foundation 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 $2.0M that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from Florida funders.

NY
PA
CT
NC
DC
FL

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

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’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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

Shirley Proctor Puller Foundation Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin26% · top quartile
Months of reserve3.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)56% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

91%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds Shirley Proctor Puller Foundation Inc?
Shirley Proctor Puller Foundation Inc (Florida) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,158,837 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC ($802,835). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Shirley Proctor Puller Foundation Inc have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $4,158,837 in grants to Shirley Proctor Puller Foundation Inc, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Shirley Proctor Puller Foundation Inc?
UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC is the largest funder on record, with $802,835 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Shirley Proctor Puller Foundation 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 29 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