Florida · Nonprofit
BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC
BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC (Florida) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being BBB INSTITUTE FOR MARKETPLACE TRUST ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What Better Business Bureau of Palm Beach County Inc does
Mission
The better business bureau's mission is to be the leader in advancing marketplace trust. We do this by setting standards for marketplace trust, encouraging and supporting best practices by engaging with and educating consumers and businesses, celebrating marketplace role models, calling out and addressing substandard marketplace behavior and creating a community of trustworthy businesses and charities. Bbb sees trust as a function of 2 primary factors - integrity and performance. Integrity includes respect, ethics, intent, and working towards a diverse, inclusive and equitable marketplace. Performance speaks to a business's track record of delivering results in accordance with bbb standards and/or addressing customer concerns in a timely, satisfactory manner.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The better business bureau provides service to 6 million consumers in southeast florida and the caribbean, over 243,000 businesses and 6,300 bbb accredited businesses. Bbb provided over 8.29 million reports on businesses,processed 62,000 complaints (bbb accredited and non-bbb accredit businesses),published 52,000 customer reviews, conducted 380 advertising review challenges and 100 in depth business practice investigations for problematic business practices.
$5,026,558 spent$5,742,755 earned by the program88% of program spendingBbb national programs administers bbb auto line for the mediation and arbitration of automobile warranty disputes. The program resolves lemon law and warranty disputes between consumers and automobile manufacturers / warrantors.
$5,815 spent0% of program spendingAdvertising support to help consumers find trustworthy businesses and tools to help small business assess their marketing stratgies.
$708,273 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,740,646.
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 2017 to 2018, from $2.7M to $3.3M (+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 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Mickey Nolen
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF PALM BEACH COUNTY 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.
Where its funders are
BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF PALM BEACH COUNTY 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 BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC?
- BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC (Florida) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being BBB INSTITUTE FOR MARKETPLACE TRUST ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC.
- Who is the largest funder of BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC?
- BBB INSTITUTE FOR MARKETPLACE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF PALM BEACH COUNTY 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 1 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