Florida · Nonprofit
BIG BEND HOSPICE INC
BIG BEND HOSPICE INC (Florida) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $803,406 to it, the largest being DAHL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($160,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $30M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $803k
- Net assets
- $20M
What Big Bend Hospice Inc does
Mission
For over 40 years, big bend hospice ("bbh "big bend") has been inspiring hope by positively impacting the way our community experiences serious illness or grief, one family at a time. (continued on schedule o)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Big bend hospice (big bend) is a not-for-profit community-based health care organization that coordinates care by professionals and volunteers specifically trained to help terminally ill patients and their families in the big bend florida area. Big bend is here to take the fear out of the unknown and guide patients and their families through the difficulties of dealing with a life limiting illness. We provide each patient with a care team composed of the patient's own physician, a hospice nurse, home hearth aide, family support counselor, music therapist, chaplain, and trained volunteers. We are here to support the patients and their families by providing a holistic approach that includes medical, emotional, social, and spiritual care, maximizing the quality of life when the quantity of life cannot be extended. Continued on schedule o
$18,722,966 spent$27,998,727 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $18,722,966.
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 2022 to 2023, from $19M to $27M (+44%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 14% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of BIG BEND HOSPICE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (26% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
William Wertman
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $143k → $18k.
3 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $8.8M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Big Bend Hospice Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BIG BEND HOSPICE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BIG BEND HOSPICE 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.
How concentrated its funding is
BIG BEND HOSPICE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
56% 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 BIG BEND HOSPICE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 34% · 2019 51% · 2020 51% · 2021 40% · 2022 62% · 2023 62% — 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 BIG BEND HOSPICE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
90% of BIG BEND HOSPICE 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. $54k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
BIG BEND HOSPICE INC's revenue grew 54% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 95 unclassified nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding BIG BEND HOSPICE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $611k on record.
- STATE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $609k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $2k
- FEES - GENERAL - COMMODITIES $112
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 BIG BEND HOSPICE 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
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 10 related entities
- Big Bend Hopice Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Oak Tree Treasures LLC · disregarded
- Canopy Oaks Institute LLC · disregarded
- Capstone Center LLC · disregarded
- Capstone Center for Counseling and Education LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BIG BEND HOSPICE INC?
- BIG BEND HOSPICE INC (Florida) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $803,406 to it, the largest being DAHL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($160,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG BEND HOSPICE INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $803,406 in grants to BIG BEND HOSPICE INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG BEND HOSPICE INC?
- DAHL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG BEND HOSPICE 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 20 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