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Believe Community Services Inc Unique Learners

Believe Community Services Inc Unique Learners (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,500 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD INC ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2023
$85k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$16k
Net assets
$3k
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Believe Community Services Inc Unique Learners does

Mission

The mission for BCS is to provide coaching, mentoring, and affordable business start-up services for the at risk hard to employ individual We have provided a more focused effort for Neurodivergent youth.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Program

  1. Most of our participants come to us in need of basic necessities as clothing, food etc, The bulk of our expenses come from securing place to train and providing transportation in hopes of getting a job. We also create custom training materials that they need due to their lack of understanding...We provide care packs for our participants who are homeless but seeking affordable housing...we help with any need while they are developing skills that can secure sustainable employment and keep them out of jail

    $47,000 spentof which $18,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $47,000.

02The organization over time

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

Sherry Vertil

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
'24*
total
funders
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 Believe Community Services Inc Unique Learners’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

Believe Community Services Inc Unique Learners 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 Believe Community Services Inc Unique Learners.

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

“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 Believe Community Services Inc Unique Learners'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 $500 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 1 state.

NY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Believe Community Services Inc Unique Learners runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,663 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,663 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2023

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 9%Fundraising 15%

Governance

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

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

FL

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds Believe Community Services Inc Unique Learners?
Believe Community Services Inc Unique Learners (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,500 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD INC ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Believe Community Services Inc Unique Learners have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $15,500 in grants to Believe Community Services Inc Unique Learners.
Who is the largest funder of Believe Community Services Inc Unique Learners?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Believe Community Services Inc Unique Learners 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 FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 2 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