Florida · Nonprofit
SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc
SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc (Florida) receives grants from 297 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,690,887 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($10,763,898). 150 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 297
- Grants received
- $25M
- Net assets
- $7.7M
What SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc does
Mission
To provide year-round sports training and competition, critical health services, and leadership skills to children and adults with intellectual disabilities, at no cost to the athlete or their caregiver as a means to achieve physical fitness and gain key life skills.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Through participation in 176 local competitions, 76,976 special olympics athletes from florida had ample opportunities to practice and hone their skills. With 27 different sports being offered year-round, there is something for everyone.
$8,099,064 spent53% of program spendingTraining of 76,976 athletes in functional sports skills and rules which empower and enable them to interact with the community. Training takes place not only as part of the olympic type sports offered, but also through our unified sports young athletes program and athlete leadership courses to enhance our athletes' opportunities within our community. While providing the athletes with opportunities to build muscles and sharpen motor skills, training also builds self-confidence and the development of social skills that will help them live a better life.
$2,687,259 spent18% of program spendingHealthy programs - strive to improve athletes' well-being & overall sports experience through enhancement of health, wellness & fitness initiatives. Through partnerships fitness and wellness programs, as well as robust healthy athletes programming, sofl is paving the way for inclusive health. We offer an approach that focuses on the whole person with an intellectual & developmental disability & provide integrated health care & referrals. Athletes are offered in eight disciplines, including health promotion, physical examinations, physical therapy, hearing, vision, podiatry, mental wellness, and dental care. Sofl trains healthcare providers throughout the state, improving access to quality health care year-round for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in their own communities.during 2024, the program performed 10,021 health screenings with the assistance of 2,169 health care professionals.
$1,543,771 spent10% of program spendingOther programs
$2,930,233 spent19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,260,327.
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 2020 to 2021, from $9.0M to $13M (+43%).
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 7% · 2018 6% · 2019 9% · 2020 11% · 2021 12% · 2022 10% · 2023 13% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Sherry Wheelock
President/CEO
Board chair
Brad Gilmour
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 61 funders to 105 funders, grant income rose $1.8M → $3.3M.
36 of 297 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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: $3.7M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Special Olympics Florida Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 297 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 55%; half comes from just 3 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
84% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 28% · 2019 57% · 2020 50% · 2021 51% · 2022 38% · 2023 51% — 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
34% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 28 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc's funding base is broadening — from 61 funders to 105 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 303 recreation & sports nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $544k on record.
- STATE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $544k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $68
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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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
- Special Olympics Florida Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc (Florida) receives grants from 297 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,690,887 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($10,763,898). 150 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc have?
- IRS filings report 297 organizations giving $24,690,887 in grants to SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc, 150 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,763,898 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA 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 297 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