Florida · Nonprofit
CRIME STOPPERS OF TAMPA BAY INC
CRIME STOPPERS OF TAMPA BAY INC (Florida) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $82 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($82). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $316k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $82
- Net assets
- $360k
What Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay Inc does
Mission
It is the vision of crime stoppers of tampa bay to empower the community to have safer neighborhoods, schools, and work environments by providing a voice that citizens can use to stand against criminals without fear.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Reward program - reduces crime and improves public safety by providing rewards for crime tips. The program has been established in the middle & high schools to reward students that report criminal information. The program has taken weapons out of schools, making the environment safer. Since inception, 1,686,250 has been approved for tips, and 402,255 has been paid.
$137,837 spent$23,877 earned by the program52% of program spendingPublic awareness - crime stoppers is a community program designed to bring law enforcement, the news media, and citizens together. Since the inception of the program, the organization has assisted law enforcement in clearing over 13,319 cases & recovered property & narcotics valued at over 19,344,252.
$115,660 spentof which $800 as grants44% of program spendingTipline - by guaranteeing a caller's anonymity, crime stoppers allows the caller to give information in a positive atmosphere without the prospect of retribution. The program encourages otherwise relunctant callers to provide needed information to solve crimes which has amounted to 6,681 arrests made since inception of the program.
$10,195 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $263,692.
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 $302k to $373k (+23%).
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 87% · 2018 89% · 2019 93% · 2020 93% · 2021 89% · 2022 86% · 2023 91% · 2024 72% · 2025 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $39.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 CRIME STOPPERS OF TAMPA BAY 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.
Where its funders are
100% of CRIME STOPPERS OF TAMPA BAY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $82 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.
Government funding CRIME STOPPERS OF TAMPA BAY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $182 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $182
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 CRIME STOPPERS OF TAMPA BAY 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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 CRIME STOPPERS OF TAMPA BAY 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 CRIME STOPPERS OF TAMPA BAY INC?
- CRIME STOPPERS OF TAMPA BAY INC (Florida) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $82 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($82). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CRIME STOPPERS OF TAMPA BAY INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $82 in grants to CRIME STOPPERS OF TAMPA BAY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CRIME STOPPERS OF TAMPA BAY INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $82 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CRIME STOPPERS OF TAMPA BAY 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 1 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