Florida · Nonprofit
ABE BROWN MINISTRIES INC
ABE BROWN MINISTRIES INC (Florida) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,839,446 to it, the largest being THE SPURLINO FOUNDATION ($650,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Abe Brown Ministries Inc does
Mission
Abe brown ministries, inc. (abm) is a faith and community-based nonprofit organization that was incorporated in the state of florida in 1977. Our mission is to break cycles of incarceration by helping to renew the minds of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated citizens motivating them to change their behaviors and achieve purposeful lives. We do this as a compassionate demonstration of the love of jesus christ.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
All prospective clients must undergo a complete background screening prior to acceptance into the program, those with sexual crimes will not be permitted. Upon acceptance, participants are required to attend a comprehensive 6-week professional development training course, focusing on employment and essential life management skills. Once participants have completed the career development training course, they work closely with a certified career coach to find employment opportunities. Each participant is partnered with a case manager who provides continuous guidance and support, as well as provides referrals for community assistance, life-coaching and follow-up drug screening. (continued on schedule o)as part of the insphire program, clients are vetted through drug screenings and a team of qualified program staff. Clients demonstrate their level of responsibility to the insphire employees and are observed in a simulated office environment for approximately two months, prior to being sent to an employer for a potential job match. Insphire supports both the client and the employer for up to one year from the time of admittance into the program. Insphire seeks to provide the perfect…
$2,277,969 spent89% of program spendingAbe brown ministries is located in the heart of east tampa in a community where the poverty rate is 50 percent higher than the city and more than double the poverty rate of the county. The average unemployment rate across the neighborhoods adjacent to our ministry is more than three times the rate in the city and the county. Unemployment and poverty are two of the greatest contributing factors to crime and behaviors that lead to arrests. Unfortunately, violent crime rates in our service area are estimated to be upwards of 10 times the violent crime rate of hillsborough county. (continued on schedule o)over the last 49 years, abe brown ministries has become more than a prison ministry. In addition to delivering the gospel on crusades into prison and transporting families to visit their incarcerated loved ones, we also distribute food to families in need from our food for life pantry, transition citizens returning from prison back into the community through our transitional living program, and assist formerly incarcerated persons with re-entry into the workforce through insphire.
$285,849 spent$93,687 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,563,818.
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.
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 $1.8M to $2.5M (+42%).
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 71% · 2018 70% · 2019 76% · 2020 74% · 2021 69% · 2022 69% · 2023 79% · 2024 83% · 2025 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Robert P Blount Iii
President & CEO
Board chair
Joseph Probasco
Chair president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $239k → $174k.
6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 ABE BROWN MINISTRIES 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
ABE BROWN MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 ABE BROWN MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 66% · 2019 48% · 2020 35% · 2021 43% · 2022 30% · 2023 46% — 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
58% of ABE BROWN MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
52% of ABE BROWN MINISTRIES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $886k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $954k 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.
Government funding ABE BROWN MINISTRIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record.
- CARE/SUBSISTENCE - TRANSITION SERVICES - VENDOR $2.0M
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $149k
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 ABE BROWN MINISTRIES 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 ABE BROWN MINISTRIES 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 ABE BROWN MINISTRIES INC?
- ABE BROWN MINISTRIES INC (Florida) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,839,446 to it, the largest being THE SPURLINO FOUNDATION ($650,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ABE BROWN MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,839,446 in grants to ABE BROWN MINISTRIES INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ABE BROWN MINISTRIES INC?
- THE SPURLINO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ABE BROWN MINISTRIES 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 21 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