Florida · Nonprofit
BETTER TOGETHER
BETTER TOGETHER (Florida) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,254,801 to it, the largest being VINE AND BRANCHES FOUNDATION INC ($810,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BETTER TOGETHER's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 14 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,082 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Dunn Foundationshared funders
- Yuba-Sutter-Colusa United Wayportfolio match
- Lava Maeportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $120k → $384k.
2 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 BETTER TOGETHER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
BETTER TOGETHER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 92% · 2020 52% · 2021 32% · 2022 45% · 2023 34% — 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
56% of BETTER TOGETHER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
BETTER TOGETHER draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 37 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Dunn Foundationshared fundersDE · backs 51 organizations that share your funders
- Yuba-Sutter-Colusa United Wayportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lava Maeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Searle Freedom Trustshared fundersWI · backs 59 organizations that share your funders
- Sumner Community Food Bankportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Movement Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lifting Hands Internationalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Balay Ko Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Florida Food Force Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Linn Benton Food Shareportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Feeding South Dakotaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ludlow Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BETTER TOGETHER
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BETTER TOGETHER: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BETTER TOGETHER?
- BETTER TOGETHER (Florida) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,254,801 to it, the largest being VINE AND BRANCHES FOUNDATION INC ($810,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BETTER TOGETHER have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $3,254,801 in grants to BETTER TOGETHER, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BETTER TOGETHER?
- VINE AND BRANCHES FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $810,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BETTER TOGETHER 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2020 (financials across 2020–2020), and the filings of 37funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing