Florida · Nonprofit
CENTRAL FLORIDA COMMUNITY NEWS INC
CENTRAL FLORIDA COMMUNITY NEWS INC (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,798 to it, the largest being THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ($44,950). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $132k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $111k
- Net assets
- $36k
What Central Florida Community News Inc does
Mission
Central florida news was created to fill local information gaps in various central florida communities. The news organization asks residents what their information needs are and works to fill those needs through nonpartisan, unbiased news and information. Cfcns mission is to create a better informed and connected community through independent, public-service journalism that focuses on issues that residents said matter to them.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Oviedo community news served a total audience of more than 120,000 people in 2025, reported on 1,350 hours of local government meetings that otherwise would have gone uncovered and published more than 1,000 articles.
$156,692 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $156,692.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $88k to $36k (−59%).
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.
100% of CENTRAL FLORIDA COMMUNITY NEWS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Christopher Jepson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $43k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 CENTRAL FLORIDA COMMUNITY NEWS 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
CENTRAL FLORIDA COMMUNITY NEWS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 CENTRAL FLORIDA COMMUNITY NEWS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 68% — 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
CENTRAL FLORIDA COMMUNITY NEWS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CENTRAL FLORIDA COMMUNITY NEWS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding CENTRAL FLORIDA COMMUNITY NEWS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $238 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $238
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 CENTRAL FLORIDA COMMUNITY NEWS 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.
Public support
83%
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 CENTRAL FLORIDA COMMUNITY NEWS 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 CENTRAL FLORIDA COMMUNITY NEWS INC?
- CENTRAL FLORIDA COMMUNITY NEWS INC (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $110,798 to it, the largest being THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ($44,950). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTRAL FLORIDA COMMUNITY NEWS INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $110,798 in grants to CENTRAL FLORIDA COMMUNITY NEWS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL FLORIDA COMMUNITY NEWS INC?
- THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $44,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRAL FLORIDA COMMUNITY NEWS 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 3 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