Florida · Nonprofit
211 Tampa Bay Cares Inc
211 Tampa Bay Cares Inc (Florida) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,255,894 to it, the largest being THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC ($7,211,372). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.9M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What 211 Tampa Bay Cares Inc does
Mission
The mission of 211 Tampa Bay Cares, Inc. is "Improving lives through the power of information and hope."
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
First contact is the region's trusted front door for help. We connect individuals and families to life-changing emotional support, community information and critical resources through: 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, 211 Helpline and Financial Assistance.988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline988 has been designated as the three-digit dialing code that will route callers to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (now known as 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline), which is now active across the United States.First Contact began serving as a national text and online chat backup center for 988 in April 2022 and began answering 988 Florida telephone calls for 10 Florida Counties (Pinellas, Pasco, Hernando, Manatee, Sarasota, DeSoto, Lee, Hendry, Glades and Hillsborough County) instate calls for 988 in August 2022.In FY 24-25, trained 988 text and chat team members handled over 58,400 texts and online chats from individuals experiencing a mental health crisis. 98% of our 988 visitors were de-escalated without higher level intervention. Visitor top concerns include suicidal thoughts, depression/anxiety, substance use, relationship conflict, financial stress, grief, bullying, and loneliness.211…
$8,533,090 spentof which $1,768,535 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,533,090.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.5M to $10M (+603%).
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 94% · 2018 92% · 2019 90% · 2020 96% · 2021 97% · 2022 61% · 2023 35% · 2024 35% · 2025 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of 211 Tampa Bay Cares Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Micki Thompson
President/CEO
Board chair
Gayle Guidash
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $117k → $3.9M.
6 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of 211 Tampa Bay Cares Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 20 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
211 Tampa Bay Cares Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 211 Tampa Bay Cares Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 40% · 2019 35% · 2020 29% · 2021 47% · 2022 36% · 2023 52% — 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.
How long its funders stay
53% of 211 Tampa Bay Cares Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
56% of 211 Tampa Bay Cares 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. $342k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
211 Tampa Bay Cares Inc has grown faster than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding 211 Tampa Bay Cares Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $348 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $348
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like 211 Tampa Bay Cares 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
92% 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 211 Tampa Bay Cares 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 211 Tampa Bay Cares Inc?
- 211 Tampa Bay Cares Inc (Florida) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,255,894 to it, the largest being THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC ($7,211,372). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does 211 Tampa Bay Cares Inc have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $17,255,894 in grants to 211 Tampa Bay Cares Inc, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 211 Tampa Bay Cares Inc?
- THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,211,372 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 211 Tampa Bay Cares 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 20 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