Florida · Nonprofit
Suwannee Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc
Suwannee Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $397,890 to it, the largest being TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN ($186,291). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $112k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $398k
- Net assets
- $73k
What Suwannee Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc does
Mission
Promotes excellence in education in Suwannee County, FL
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Take Stock in Children Program awards students a four-year college scholarship if they meet the following criteria: 1) maintain a 2.0 GPA, 2) stay free of drugs, alcohol, and discipline problems; and 3) meet with a mentor once per week.
$6,267 spent7% of program spendingMatching grants (Mini-grants) provides additional resources to teachers of the Suwannee County School Board who apply and meet criteria rankings as determined by the Board of Directors. In addition, the Foundation provided support to District employees via a grant from the State of Florida.
$71,183 spentof which $53,528 as grants$22,215 earned by the program76% of program spendingThe Teacher of the Year Program promotes excellence in teaching within the Suwannee County, Florida, School District. Annually awards are provided to those nominated by their peers and judged worthy of the recognition for their dedication, knowledge, and skills.
$16,694 spent$11,140 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $94,144.
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 2022 to 2023, from $12k to $47k (+304%).
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 51% · 2018 59% · 2019 57% · 2021 58% · 2022 53% · 2023 42% · 2024 77% · 2025 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Suwannee Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% 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
Hallie Tillman
Secretary/Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $38k → $5k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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: $375k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Suwannee Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Suwannee Foundation for Excellence in Education 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
Suwannee Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 Suwannee Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 95% · 2019 94% · 2020 93% · 2021 93% · 2022 85% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of Suwannee Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k 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
Suwannee Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc's revenue grew 16% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Suwannee Foundation for Excellence in Education 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 Suwannee Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc?
- Suwannee Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $397,890 to it, the largest being TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN ($186,291). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Suwannee Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $397,890 in grants to Suwannee Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Suwannee Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc?
- TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN is the largest funder on record, with $186,291 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Suwannee Foundation for Excellence in Education 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 4 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