Florida · Nonprofit
BETTER TOGETHER STRENGTHENING FAMILES INC
BETTER TOGETHER STRENGTHENING FAMILES INC (Florida) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,340,373 to it, the largest being NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ($1,381,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $35M
What Better Together Strengthening Familes Inc does
Mission
Better together helps at-risk families by empowering parents and surrounding them with community, meaningful work opportunities, and practical support. Our volunteer-driven, professionally supported model provides direct services so that no family struggles alone. This approach prevents the need for foster care and breaks the cycle of government dependency. Better together is entirely funded by private contributions. Better together serves at-risk families that are isolated and on the verge of family breakdown due to economic hardship, natural disasters, or personal challenges. We empower parents to lead the way in overcoming obstacles as our team of professionals and network of churches, vetted volunteers, and employer partners offer direct and practical support.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Our better families program helps at-risk families prevent child neglect and abandonment before state involvement is needed. Our volunteer host families temporarily care for children while our team of professionals helps parents regain self-sufficiency, improve parenting skills, and re-engage in their children's lives. In fy 2024, better families provided direct support to children across florida with a 98% reunification rate. Services included: hosting: 213 children received safe, short-term care during times of family crisis. Parent mentoring: kids stay safe when parents stay strong. (continued on schedule o).750 children were positively impacted through 1-on-1 parent mentoring to guide parents through crises such as addiction recovery, securing stable housing, finding employment, escaping abusive relationships, and overcoming health issues. Parent support: 5,250 children were positively impacted through direct services provided to their parents, strengthening families and creating safer homes. Our help impacted 3,729 families across 33 counties through our better families program, and 98.5% of families stayed intact (double the reunification rate of florida foster care). This…
$4,317,029 spentof which $41,801 as grants75% of program spendingOur better jobs program provides workforce development to families in poverty. We have trained hundreds of churches nationwide including 16 additional churches in 2024 to host second-chance job fairs. Each event offers wrap around volunteer services removing barriers to finding a job, including free interview coaching, technical and trade school resources, resume help, professional clothing, haircuts, and legal advice. More than 40,000 people have attended our events (6,038 in fy 2024) with 13% hired on the spot and 60% employed within six weeks. A total of 3,659 children were supported through our jobs program, as we worked alongside their parents to secure meaningful work, stability, and mentorship.
$1,421,964 spent$3,006 earned by the program25% of program spendingOur mentoring and parent support services give isolated parents the chance to meet other parents, receive professional support, and benefit from the collective wisdom of a community that cares deeply about their lives. We help to stabilize employment, transportation, housing, and childcare and address environmental hazards by cleaning homes, removing safety risks, and improving living conditions. We mentor and educate on parenting, father re-engagement, and financial literacy, and provide respite care to give parents a night off to rest and recharge. All of these services reduce risk factors for abuse and neglect.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,738,993.
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. 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 2023 to 2024, from $21M to $35M (+66%).
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: 2021 4% · 2022 2% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of BETTER TOGETHER STRENGTHENING FAMILES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Megan Rose
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $261k → $924k.
25 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 STRENGTHENING FAMILES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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 STRENGTHENING FAMILES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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
89% 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 BETTER TOGETHER STRENGTHENING FAMILES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 32% · 2019 47% · 2020 51% · 2021 46% · 2022 35% · 2023 43% — growing more concentrated.
“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
29% of BETTER TOGETHER STRENGTHENING FAMILES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
88% of BETTER TOGETHER STRENGTHENING FAMILES INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
BETTER TOGETHER STRENGTHENING FAMILES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,288 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like BETTER TOGETHER STRENGTHENING FAMILES 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
44%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BETTER TOGETHER STRENGTHENING FAMILES 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 TOGETHER STRENGTHENING FAMILES INC?
- BETTER TOGETHER STRENGTHENING FAMILES INC (Florida) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,340,373 to it, the largest being NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ($1,381,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BETTER TOGETHER STRENGTHENING FAMILES INC have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $4,340,373 in grants to BETTER TOGETHER STRENGTHENING FAMILES INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BETTER TOGETHER STRENGTHENING FAMILES INC?
- NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,381,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BETTER TOGETHER STRENGTHENING FAMILES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 45 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