Florida · Nonprofit
The Florida State University Foundation Inc
The Florida State University Foundation Inc (Florida) receives grants from 276 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,243,728 to it, the largest being The Jim Moran Foundation Inc ($18,010,000). 161 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $124M
- Funders on record
- 276
- Grants received
- $79M
- Net assets
- $1.1B
What The Florida State University Foundation Inc does
Mission
The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management. The fsu foundation accomplishes its mission by fostering relationships with alumni and friends, advocating charitable giving and raising funds on behalf of fsu, soliciting contributions for academic purposes as part of fsu's overall advancement effort, investing and expending funds to meet current and future needs of fsu, and strengthening relationships with donors to fsu.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The florida state university foundation expends funds for purposes that enhance the academic mission of florida state university. Academic support includes salaries, scholarships & fellowships, research, capital funding, equipment & supplies, travel, and other expenses. This support helps the university's outstanding faculty inspire students, foster and enhance strong academic programs, and serve as a key element to institutional greatness. Eminent scholars and professorships are prestigious positions held by the university's most accomplished faculty. Spending to support these positions means that academic excellence will be maintained. Curriculum development, internships, interdisciplinary work, experiential learning and academic enrichment all require private support.
$55,153,467 spentof which $34,535,571 as grants$2,103,514 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $55,153,467.
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 $730M to $957M (+31%).
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 4% · 2018 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 3% · 2021 2% · 2022 1% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of The Florida State University Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 72 funders to 108 funders, grant income rose $4.2M → $13M.
54 of 276 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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: $2.2M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Florida State University Real Estate Foundation Incorporated). These are real filings, and they are not money The Florida State University Foundation Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of The Florida State University Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 276 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
The Florida State University Foundation Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
53% 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 The Florida State University Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 21% · 2019 39% · 2020 31% · 2021 22% · 2022 25% · 2023 24% — broadly stable.
“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
42% of The Florida State University Foundation 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
73% of The Florida State University Foundation 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. $18M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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
The Florida State University Foundation Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like The Florida State University Foundation 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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Part of a family of 14 related entities
- Florida State University · exempt
- Florida State University Alumni Association Inc · exempt
- Florida State University Real Estate Foundation Inc · exempt
- Florida State University Research Foundation Inc · exempt
- Seminole Boosters Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Florida State University Foundation 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 The Florida State University Foundation Inc?
- The Florida State University Foundation Inc (Florida) receives grants from 276 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,243,728 to it, the largest being The Jim Moran Foundation Inc ($18,010,000). 161 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Florida State University Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 276 organizations giving $79,243,728 in grants to The Florida State University Foundation Inc, 161 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Florida State University Foundation Inc?
- The Jim Moran Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $18,010,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Florida State University 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.
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 276 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