Florida · Nonprofit
AFRICAN PEOPLES EDUCATION AND DEFEN
AFRICAN PEOPLES EDUCATION AND DEFEN (Florida) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $341,864 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($147,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $516k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $342k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What African Peoples Education and Defen does
Mission
Develop and institutionalize programs to defend the human and civil rights of the african community, and to address the grave disparities in education, health, healthcare and economic development faced by african people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community and housing programs: apedf operates uhuru freedom house community centers along with programs for economic development, health, community engagement and cultural fulfillment in historically underserved areas of st. Petersburg, fl, st. Louis, mo, oakland, ca and philadelphia, pa. Our work improves the lives and living conditions of black people by building resilient communities that engage in grass-roots decision making, promote community-based leadership and actively engage in collective solutions. Apedfs programming is a template for community transformation and intended to be replicated nationwide. In 2025, apedfs keystone community transformation and anti-gentrification program, the black power blueprint of st. Louis, continued development and revitalization in one of the most impoverished neighborhoods of st. Louis, a 98% black community where 60% of residents live at or below the poverty line and one third live in deep poverty. St. Louis ranks eighth in the nation for racial disparities in poverty. The black power blueprint has built a series of interconnected community-based programs and spaces. Its economic impact has inspired and enabled current and previous…
$337,868 spent$57,710 earned by the program77% of program spendingEconomic development: apedf continues to operate black community-based economic development programs and advocate for capital infusions to support self-sustaining economic activity and power. In st. Petersburg, apedf provides an affordable, licensed community commercial kitchen where more than 15 caterers, food vendors, cooks and entrepreneurs operate food-related businesses as self-sustaining economic activity. Apedf continues to operate community-based marketplaces for economic development for the 6th season in st. Louis, and for the 19th season in philadelphia. These marketplaces generate community commerce and address food apartheid and food insecurity. In 2025, the markets provided low-cost vending opportunities for over 120 entrepreneurs in philadelphia and 40 urban farmers and entrepreneurs in st. Louis, recirculating money and social capital within the black community. The marketplaces offer cultural performances, fitness classes, childrens activities and workshops on gardening, cooking and nutrition. To support people returning to the workforce after incarceration, apedf continues to develop the african independence workforce program (aiwp) under the banner our labor, our…
$62,383 spent14% of program spendingMedia and educational services: in philadelphia, apedf held its 12th annual book fair in september 2025 at the philadelphia marketplace promoting black authors and independent publishers and booksellers. The book fair featured education resource providers, poetry readings, spoken word, storytelling and literacy activities. Inst. Petersburg, apedf operates a low-power noncommercial fm community radio station that reaches more than 100,000 residents by broadcast and more by internet and mobile phone app. In this area, 70% of black families live below poverty level. Programming is focused on black community empowerment, providing the community with their own voice for news, information and culture. Providing public health information and weather emergency information are critical roles of the station. With 90% of all media controlled by a handful of large corporations, this station provides access to the airwaves for unsigned local musical talent and black artists from all over the world. Apedf also provides free broadcast and journalism training for st. Petersburg community members and students, many of whom go on to produce live programming at the station. Apedf promotes local…
$37,162 spent$37,519 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $437,413.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.6M to $2.0M (−24%).
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 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 5% · 2023 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of AFRICAN PEOPLES EDUCATION AND DEFEN’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $32k.
7 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 AFRICAN PEOPLES EDUCATION AND DEFEN’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
AFRICAN PEOPLES EDUCATION AND DEFEN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 AFRICAN PEOPLES EDUCATION AND DEFEN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 53% · 2021 74% · 2022 21% · 2023 62% — 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
33% of AFRICAN PEOPLES EDUCATION AND DEFEN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% 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
75% of AFRICAN PEOPLES EDUCATION AND DEFEN'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 $85k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $257k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
AFRICAN PEOPLES EDUCATION AND DEFEN holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,798 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,798 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding AFRICAN PEOPLES EDUCATION AND DEFEN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $583k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$583k
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 AFRICAN PEOPLES EDUCATION AND DEFEN
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
83% 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 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AFRICAN PEOPLES EDUCATION AND DEFEN: 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 AFRICAN PEOPLES EDUCATION AND DEFEN?
- AFRICAN PEOPLES EDUCATION AND DEFEN (Florida) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $341,864 to it, the largest being IMPACTASSETSINC ($147,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AFRICAN PEOPLES EDUCATION AND DEFEN have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $341,864 in grants to AFRICAN PEOPLES EDUCATION AND DEFEN, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AFRICAN PEOPLES EDUCATION AND DEFEN?
- IMPACTASSETSINC is the largest funder on record, with $147,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AFRICAN PEOPLES EDUCATION AND DEFEN 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 17 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