- April 15, 2026
Ormond Beach husband and wife duo Mitch and Sarah Adams recently founded The Good Soil Scholarship Fund, a Christian nonprofit created to assist families afford a wide array of educational needs through the use of scholarships for students in grades K-12.
“It’s one of those moments that we felt like God is calling us to step in to the need in our community, and I think that we’re both equipped for it, and hopefully God can do big things in not just Ormond, but also in Volusia County,” Mitch said.
The mission of Good Soil, according to the nonprofit's website, is to provide financial support for private school and co-op tuition, homeschool curriculum, and other essential educational needs, including tutoring and supplemental support.
Good Soil seeks to support a Christ-centered education. Their scholarships are designed to assist families through a multitude of educational settings. Good Soil’s support can expand more broadly depending on each student’s situation and needs, Sarah said.
“Our longterm goal is to really build a foundation that will allow us to grow sustainably, and to impact more families every year within our community, and we have both been here for a really long time, and we both plan on being here for a really long time,” Sarah said.
Sarah is an Ormond Beach native, and her husband, Mitch moved to the Ormond area in his junior year of high school. The Adams are now working on marketing their scholarship fund for the 2026-2027 school year.
Sarah and Mitch have five elementary-aged children together, and have heavily relied on the Step Up scholarships for the past two years. Step Up is funded by the state of Florida, and works to provide scholarships to students in pre-kindergarten all the way to senior year of high school. Having gained more popularity in recent years, and its influx of received student applications, Step Up is unable to provide scholarships to every child, and ultimately, sparked the conception of Good Soil by the Adams family.
After Sarah began researching scholarship programs, she said she quickly realized how closely it aligned with her professional field, as she holds a background in finance and operation.
“That’s when it really clicked for me that this wasn’t just something we cared about, but something we were actually equipped to build on a local level," Sarah said. "We’re not here to replace Step Up, but our goal is to help fill the gap for families who were not approved due to capacity limits."
The Adams’ youngest daughter is 7 years old. She recently asked her parents if Good Soil will still be around when she is an adult, so she can then run the organization.
As of now, Good Soil is being run out of the Adams couple’s home, where they have an entire room dedicated to all of their Good Soil ideas, items and counterparts. As far as longterm growth goes, the couple says being out of the home and in an actual building would be nice down the road, but not necessary for the goals they plan to obtain.
“Good Soil comes from the biblical idea that when something is planted in good soil, it has the ability to grow and to flourish,” Sarah said.
Mitch has curated an application that the couple is anticipating to launch this summer. Applications will be reviewed by Good Soil’s team and if a child is approved, the funds will be distributed to either an approved school, or educational provider, which is dependent on each individual student’s needs. As of now, Good Soil is working on building relationships with potential donors and people within the community.
For more information, visit goodsoilfund.org.
