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Buddy System MIA Inc

Buddy System MIA Inc (Florida) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $274,635 to it, the largest being THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ($106,366). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$607k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$275k
Net assets
$175k
7/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Buddy System MIA Inc does

Mission

Buddy System MIA Inc reduces food insecurity in Miami by creating unique and innovative ways to engage and empower the community to access free and healthy foods.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Reduced food insecurity in the area served by providing free and healthy food.

    $563,360 spent$606,751 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $563,360.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($111k) Expenses 100 ($90k) Net assets 100 ($21k)2021 Revenue 442 ($491k) Expenses 501 ($451k) Net assets 285 ($59k)2022 Revenue 467 ($518k) Expenses 546 ($492k) Net assets 409 ($85k)2023 Revenue 564 ($625k) Expenses 638 ($574k) Net assets 655 ($137k)2024 Revenue 673 ($746k) Expenses 837 ($753k) Net assets 632 ($132k)2025 Revenue 547 ($607k) Expenses 626 ($563k) Net assets 840 ($175k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (547)Expenses (626)Net assets (840)Peer revenue range

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 $87k to $138k (+60%).

$21k
$59k
$87k
$138k
$133k
$175k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 30% · 2024 14% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of Buddy System MIA Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,496 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$21k
’20
$40k
’21
$26k
’22
$51k
’23
−$7k
’24
$43k
’25
3.7
months of
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

Kristin Guerin

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed66867
Joined·+0+2+3+2
No longer listed·0051
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $15k → $85k.

4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 Buddy System MIA 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

Buddy System MIA Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

83% 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 Buddy System MIA Inc.

39%
largest funder
65%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 73% · 2022 81% · 2023 30% — 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.

Where its funders are

79% of Buddy System MIA Inc's grant income comes from Florida funders.

NY
OH
CA
MO
GA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $131k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Buddy System MIA Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,208 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · below the median
Months of reserve3.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)40% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,208 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Buddy System MIA 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

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
75%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Buddy System MIA 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 Buddy System MIA Inc?
Buddy System MIA Inc (Florida) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $274,635 to it, the largest being THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ($106,366). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Buddy System MIA Inc have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $274,635 in grants to Buddy System MIA Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Buddy System MIA Inc?
THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $106,366 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Buddy System MIA 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 16 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing