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WORLD CLASS SCHOOLS OF LEON COUNTY INC

WORLD CLASS SCHOOLS OF LEON COUNTY INC (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,750,892 to it, the largest being CAPITAL HEALTH PLAN INC ($7,522,517). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.2M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$7.8M
Net assets
$137k
2/4 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What World Class Schools of Leon County Inc does

Mission

World class schools (wcs) is a 501(c)(3) program of the greater tallahassee chamber of commerce created to involve business and civic leaders in the attainment of the highest levels of academic achievement of leon county school (lcs) wcs continues to enhance the educational experience of our students in leon county. The organization focuses on strengthening the partnership between our local businesses and the lcs system. The goal of wcs is to propel students to high academic standards and equip them with skills they will need to succeed in the workforce.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Business and civic leaders are involved with programs designed to improve academic achievement in leon county schools. One of the current programs for world class schools is the chp champions program. For the chp champions program, world class schools has partnered with the leon county school district and titus sports academy to provide the students in leon county with developmental physical activity. The overall goal is to develop a fitness program for students to improve their health and promote line-long wellness. This program has also been implemented in five surrounding counties: calhoun, gadsden, jefferson, liberty, and wakulla.

    $1,100,953 spentof which $54,000 as grants$1,020,826 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,100,953.

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 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($116k)2018 Revenue 84 ($1.2M) Expenses 82 ($1.2M) Net assets 131 ($152k)2019 Revenue 83 ($1.2M) Expenses 83 ($1.2M) Net assets 138 ($159k)2020 Revenue 76 ($1.1M) Expenses 77 ($1.1M) Net assets 139 ($161k)2021 Revenue 58 ($828k) Expenses 58 ($827k) Net assets 147 ($170k)2022 Revenue 70 ($992k) Expenses 72 ($1.0M) Net assets 123 ($143k)2023 Revenue 91 ($1.3M) Expenses 93 ($1.3M) Net assets 105 ($122k)2024 Revenue 80 ($1.1M) Expenses 82 ($1.2M) Net assets 98 ($114k)2025 Revenue 84 ($1.2M) Expenses 83 ($1.2M) Net assets 118 ($137k)
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Revenue (84)Expenses (83)Net assets (118)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 2021 to 2022, from $180k to $346k (+92%).

$126k
$171k
$184k
$175k
$180k
$346k
$209k
$125k
$161k
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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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 4% · 2024 4% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

14% of WORLD CLASS SCHOOLS OF LEON COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
’17
$36k
’18
$7k
’19
$1k
’20
$888
’21
−$23k
’22
−$24k
’23
−$14k
’24
$18k
’25
1.1
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

Suzanne Dick

President/CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $1.1M → $1.0M.

Funder
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total
Capital Health Plan Incunclassified
$7.5M
funders
2
2
1
1
1
2
2
1

From the IRS filings of WORLD CLASS SCHOOLS OF LEON COUNTY 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

WORLD CLASS SCHOOLS OF LEON COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

97% 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 WORLD CLASS SCHOOLS OF LEON COUNTY INC.

97%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 81% · 2023 99% — 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.

Where its funders are

97% of WORLD CLASS SCHOOLS OF LEON COUNTY INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.

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FL

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

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Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

WORLD CLASS SCHOOLS OF LEON COUNTY INC's revenue fell 16% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve1.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

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

Organizations like WORLD CLASS SCHOOLS OF LEON COUNTY 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

Leadership Tallahassee Inc83%Greater Tallahassee Chamber Foundation Inc80%Florida Achievement Support Trust80%Gold Coast Junior Golf Foundation Inc80%The Foundation for Lee County Public Schools Inc79%Flagler County Education Direct Support Organization Inc79%Global Leadership Academy Inc79%Gfwc Coral Gables Woman's Club Inc79%

Nationally

Leadership Tallahassee Inc83%Walk of Champions81%Cplc Community Schools80%East Chicago Urban Enterprise Academy Inc80%Greater Tallahassee Chamber Foundation Inc80%Connect Community Charter School80%Christ Classical School Inc80%Lighthouse Community Public Schools80%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

2
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

45%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • Leadership Tallahassee · exempt
  • Our Region Tomorrow · exempt
  • Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce · exempt
  • Greater Tallahassee Chamber Foundation Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORLD CLASS SCHOOLS OF LEON COUNTY 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 WORLD CLASS SCHOOLS OF LEON COUNTY INC?
WORLD CLASS SCHOOLS OF LEON COUNTY INC (Florida) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,750,892 to it, the largest being CAPITAL HEALTH PLAN INC ($7,522,517). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WORLD CLASS SCHOOLS OF LEON COUNTY INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $7,750,892 in grants to WORLD CLASS SCHOOLS OF LEON COUNTY INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WORLD CLASS SCHOOLS OF LEON COUNTY INC?
CAPITAL HEALTH PLAN INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,522,517 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WORLD CLASS SCHOOLS OF LEON COUNTY 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 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