Florida · Nonprofit
DAWNING FAMILY SERVICES INC
DAWNING FAMILY SERVICES INC (Florida) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,524,240 to it, the largest being TAMPA HILLSBOROUGH HOMELESS INITIATIVE INC ($6,891,016). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $9.5M
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Dawning Family Services Inc does
Mission
We embrace diverse families with children touched by housing instability or homelessness and support their transition to a safe and stable home.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Emergency shelter: through the emergency shelter component, the organization provides temporary emergency shelter to parents with children who are homeless in our community. This short-term (up to 90-day) support offers safety and services to families seeking emergency shelter, including those who have been turned away from other shelters in hillsborough county. Families in emergency shelter are provided with essential services including: case management incorporating the principles of trauma-informed care, housing search and placement assistance, financial assistance (in the form of cash benefits and rent and utilities) to help them move into permanent housing, and post-shelter supportive services to ensure stability once permanently housed. This housing first approach moves families more quickly into permanent housing. A major u.s. Department of housing & urban development research effort offers compelling evidence that housing first strategies are superior for reducing homelessness for families with children compared to transitional housing programs and exclusive emergency shelter interventions. In 2025, 85 families were provided with short-term emergency shelter (102 adults…
$729,539 spentof which $518 as grants29% of program spendingHousing services, including rapid re-housing services: housing and support specialists assist clients with housing searches and placement, as well as develop and maintain relationships with prospective and current property managers and landlords, including acting as liaisons between property managers/landlords and clients. Housing and support specialists maintain fidelity to the housing first delivery model, an approach that prioritizes providing permanent housing quickly ending a family's homelessness. Rapid re-housing (rrh) services are available for clients who meet the qualifications and stipulations of the program and want to enroll. Rrh interventions (financial support and follow-up support services) are designed to help those who do not need intensive supports to quickly exit homelessness for permanent housing. In 2025, 64 families were served through this program, and 38 families exited the program.
$1,071,762 spentof which $551,296 as grants43% of program spendingPath to prevention: homeless prevention specialists provide solution-focused strength-based case management services to families in crisis and prevent them from entering the homeless system. Services include mediation with landlords and/or family members/friends; employment assistance; referrals to legal, and other support services; and financial assistance. One of the key components for a successful homeless prevention program is flexible funding. These funds are utilized to help families achieve housing stability by providing transportation to get them back home, which could be another county or out of state where they have safe housing and stronger support networks, bus passes, minor car repairs, child care expenses, birth certificates, and/or other allowable services that are needed to secure housing stability. In 2025, 218 families were served through this program.
$531,491 spent21% of program spendingWork for success: employment specialists work one on one with adult family members experiencing homelessness who have high employment barriers. Providing safe, stable housing is a priority in addressing employment for the adult household members. Additionally, employment specialists assess hard-to-employ adult family members for education, job experience and need for additional career skills/job training, prepare them for job search, and help them find good jobs. In 2025, 63 clients were served through this program.
$180,917 spentof which $8,069 as grants7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,513,709.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.6M to $5.1M (+41%).
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 78% · 2018 47% · 2020 74% · 2021 87% · 2022 53% · 2023 58% · 2024 46% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of DAWNING FAMILY SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Tammi Casagni
CEO
Board chair
Janice Polo
Chair of board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $374k → $1.6M.
10 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 DAWNING FAMILY SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 funders by total. 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
DAWNING FAMILY SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 DAWNING FAMILY SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 65% · 2019 69% · 2020 62% · 2021 80% · 2022 74% · 2023 79% — 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
38% of DAWNING FAMILY SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
94% of DAWNING FAMILY SERVICES 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. $962k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
DAWNING FAMILY SERVICES INC has grown faster than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like DAWNING FAMILY SERVICES 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
92% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DAWNING FAMILY SERVICES 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 DAWNING FAMILY SERVICES INC?
- DAWNING FAMILY SERVICES INC (Florida) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,524,240 to it, the largest being TAMPA HILLSBOROUGH HOMELESS INITIATIVE INC ($6,891,016). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DAWNING FAMILY SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $9,524,240 in grants to DAWNING FAMILY SERVICES INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DAWNING FAMILY SERVICES INC?
- TAMPA HILLSBOROUGH HOMELESS INITIATIVE INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,891,016 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DAWNING FAMILY SERVICES 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 44 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