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THE FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
THE FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Florida) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,043,734 to it, the largest being XQ INSTITUTE ($3,048,665). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $6.2M
What The Foundation for Seminole County Public Schools does
Mission
The foundation's mission is to inspire success and thriving for all students in seminole county public schools through community partnership that leverages relationships and financial resources. Since inception the foundation has raised over 65 million to support students and teachers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Tools 4 seminole schools - secures donated classroom and school supplies throughout the school year. All teachers at 39 schools - ones with 50%+ students on free and reduced meals - are eligible to shop monthly. The remaining schools are eligible to have a dedicated representative shop for the school once per month. Approximately 1,578,795 in product was distributed to schools in the district so that students could start the year on the right foot.
$1,578,795 spent44% of program spendingTake stock in children: take stock in children is a statewide scholarship program that targets students with a financial need and a strong desire to succeed. Each spring, eighth grade students from seminole county public schools are invited to apply for 30 two-year college scholarships through the take stock in children program. The program serviced 115 students in the 2024-2025 fiscal year.
$484,954 spentof which $169,298 as grants13% of program spendingGrants for great ideas: the grants for great ideas program allocates small grants for classroom, school or district projects. The fundamental purpose of this program is to provide the funding for classroom projects that are innovative and original with the overall goal of enhancing a student's learning experience.
$100,430 spent3% of program spendingFamilies in need (fomerly families in transition): families in need was established to serve the educational needs of children in the seminole county school system who are considered homeless. These students "lack a fixed, regular and adequate residence; or have a primary nighttime residence that is temporary in nature; or is a place not designed or used originally as a regular sleeping accomodation for human beings." a school liason has been assigned to work with the district's elementary and secondary school, as well as the community, agencies and shelters in identifying homeless families with school-age children. Contact with the family and school is made and communication is established with the student's school, as well. Other includes many mini-grants and programs which provide educators as well as students with scholarships for further education.
$1,457,144 spent40% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,621,323.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $5.7M to $6.5M (+14%).
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: 2020 15% · 2021 22% · 2022 17% · 2023 26% · 2024 22% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of THE FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Brian Luc
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $434k → $296k.
8 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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: $1.8M from 6 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 THE FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS raised.
From the IRS filings of THE FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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 FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
32% 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 FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 85% · 2019 49% · 2020 81% · 2021 64% · 2022 69% · 2023 34% — 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
42% of THE FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
THE FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $407k 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.
Against its field
THE FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS's revenue fell 17% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
- THE FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Florida) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,043,734 to it, the largest being XQ INSTITUTE ($3,048,665). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $5,043,734 in grants to THE FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
- XQ INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $3,048,665 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 36 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