Florida · Nonprofit
Broward Bulldog Inc DBA Florida Bulldog
Broward Bulldog Inc DBA Florida Bulldog (Florida) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $642,765 to it, the largest being HIERONYMUS FOUNDATION INC ($440,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $178k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $643k
- Net assets
- $198k
What Broward Bulldog Inc DBA Florida Bulldog does
Mission
To deliver to the local public through on-line news media independent, in-depth investigative journalism and increase civic participation in the region by local citizens by providing to them the knowledge and in-depth analysis necessary to become informed advocates for Broward County, Florida region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Broward Bulldog published various stories, all of which were locally produced. The matters covered included fraud/waste/mismanagement, civil rights, ethics, law enforcement, police misconduct, crime, elections, open records, corruption, the environment, development, health care, education, waste disposal, politics, public health, real estate foreclosures, 9/11, etc.The stories were of local, regional, statewide and even national interest. Geographic areas that we covered included South Florida, Broward County and numerous municipalities such as Deerfield Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Pompano Beach and Hallandale Beach.
$103,723 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $103,723.
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 2023 to 2024, from $150k to $198k (+32%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Kevin Boyd
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $75k → $85k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 Broward Bulldog Inc DBA Florida Bulldog’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
Broward Bulldog Inc DBA Florida Bulldog leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
31% 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 Broward Bulldog Inc DBA Florida Bulldog.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 66% · 2020 70% · 2021 76% · 2022 82% · 2023 70% — 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
75% of Broward Bulldog Inc DBA Florida Bulldog'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
96% of Broward Bulldog Inc DBA Florida Bulldog's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $156k 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.
Organizations like Broward Bulldog Inc DBA Florida Bulldog
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.
Public support
55%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Broward Bulldog Inc DBA Florida Bulldog: 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 Broward Bulldog Inc DBA Florida Bulldog?
- Broward Bulldog Inc DBA Florida Bulldog (Florida) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $642,765 to it, the largest being HIERONYMUS FOUNDATION INC ($440,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Broward Bulldog Inc DBA Florida Bulldog have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $642,765 in grants to Broward Bulldog Inc DBA Florida Bulldog, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Broward Bulldog Inc DBA Florida Bulldog?
- HIERONYMUS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $440,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Broward Bulldog Inc DBA Florida Bulldog 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 10 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