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SUNCOAST SCHOOL FOR INNOVATIVE STUDIES INC

SUNCOAST SCHOOL FOR INNOVATIVE STUDIES INC (Florida) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $727,849 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($553,194). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$2.2M
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$728k
Net assets
$-210082
3/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Suncoast School for Innovative Studies Inc does

Program

  1. The organization operated a charter school with 117 students.

    $1,884,542 spent$2,221,742 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,884,542.

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 ($4.4M) Expenses 100 ($4.2M) Net assets 100 ($382k)2018 Revenue 101 ($4.5M) Expenses 102 ($4.3M) Net assets 135 ($513k)2019 Revenue 94 ($4.1M) Expenses 99 ($4.2M) Net assets 117 ($447k)2020 Revenue 81 ($3.5M) Expenses 85 ($3.6M) Net assets 97 ($369k)2021 Revenue 68 ($3.0M) Expenses 59 ($2.5M) Net assets 237 ($905k)2022 Revenue 56 ($2.5M) Expenses 66 ($2.8M) Net assets 153 ($583k)2023 Revenue 52 ($2.3M) Expenses 59 ($2.5M) Net assets 97 ($369k)2024 Revenue 40 ($1.8M) Expenses 57 ($2.4M) Net assets -59 ($-224677)2025 Revenue 50 ($2.2M) Expenses 52 ($2.2M) Net assets -55 ($-210082)
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Revenue (50)Expenses (52)Net assets (-55)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 2022 to 2023, from $672k to $1.4M (+114%).

$504k
$650k
$522k
$795k
$1.4M
$672k
$1.4M
$739k
$687k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 8% · 2018 11% · 2019 7% · 2020 19% · 2021 14% · 2022 97% · 2023 17% · 2024 17% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of SUNCOAST SCHOOL FOR INNOVATIVE STUDIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$159k
’17
$147k
’18
−$81k
’19
−$80k
’20
$529k
’21
−$337k
’22
−$245k
’23
−$631k
’24
$28k
’25
1.8
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

Fayth Jenkins

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed666555555
Joined·+0+0+1+0+3+0+1+0
No longer listed·00203010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $30 → $227k.

4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 SUNCOAST SCHOOL FOR INNOVATIVE STUDIES 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

SUNCOAST SCHOOL FOR INNOVATIVE STUDIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

80% 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 SUNCOAST SCHOOL FOR INNOVATIVE STUDIES INC.

76%
largest funder
95%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 55% · 2023 89% — 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

80% of SUNCOAST SCHOOL FOR INNOVATIVE STUDIES 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 $146k that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from Florida funders.

TX
FL

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

’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $582k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

SUNCOAST SCHOOL FOR INNOVATIVE STUDIES INC's revenue fell 50% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve1.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like SUNCOAST SCHOOL FOR INNOVATIVE STUDIES INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

0%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds SUNCOAST SCHOOL FOR INNOVATIVE STUDIES INC?
SUNCOAST SCHOOL FOR INNOVATIVE STUDIES INC (Florida) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $727,849 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($553,194). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SUNCOAST SCHOOL FOR INNOVATIVE STUDIES INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $727,849 in grants to SUNCOAST SCHOOL FOR INNOVATIVE STUDIES INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SUNCOAST SCHOOL FOR INNOVATIVE STUDIES INC?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $553,194 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SUNCOAST SCHOOL FOR INNOVATIVE STUDIES 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 7 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