Florida · Nonprofit
EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC
EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC (Florida) receives grants from 131 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,959,190 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($2,854,100). 83 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.3M
- Funders on record
- 131
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $8.1M
What Equality Florida Institute Inc does
Mission
Equality florida institute is the educational arm of the largest civil rights organization in florida dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education:safe & healthy schools:our impact in 2023 was defined by three main efforts: strategizing with school districts, supporting parent advocacy, and engaging community members in school board meetings. We worked with school districts to find ways to reduce the negative effects of anti-lgbtq laws and to show support to their faculty, staff, students, and families.(continued on schedule o)our efforts included: collaborating with 14 superintendents; collaborating with 46 school board members across 20 school districts; creating an lgbtq support guide for 10 school districts to restore protections removed by the state; training almost 1,500 principals, mental health professionals, teachers, and other school-based staff reaching around 38,000 individuals statewide; helping to select pro-lgbtq superintendents in 4 school districts; ensuring that lgbtq+ history month was recognized in 5 school districts- we recognized the need to build a broader movement to make a bigger impact in our state. As a result, equality florida developed, funded, and launched our parenting with pride program in just five months. Parenting with pride was built on three core pillars- care, advocacy, and…
$3,009,107 spentof which $7,353 as grants$53,692 earned by the program58% of program spendingOutreach:equality means business/open doors - we are working with the movement advancement project (map), home to the "open to all" campaign, to deepen our collaboration with them and with yelp, a company that publishes a searchable database of local businesses along with crowd-sourced reviews. They have added an lgbtq-friendly search function, and we will be working with map to make florida a test market for national/state collaboration.
$895,346 spentof which $5,750 as grants$35,942 earned by the program17% of program spendingMobilization:local level:- participated in 28 pride events from pensacola to key west, gathering 10,923 petitions, and recruiting 2,128 new volunteers.- recruited over 1,800 volunteers across 44 counties to attend 233 school board meetings to speak out for the rights of florida's lgbtq students.(continued on schedule o)state level: - prevented extensive book bans, advocated for lgbtq proclamations and guide returns, and countered excessive caution in complying with anti-lgbtq laws.- attended board of medicine and board of osteopathy meetings throughout the year to advocate for access to gender-affirming care. Despite some final adoption barriers, our advocates successfully mitigated harm. Our consistent presence at board of education meetings, with over 100 attendees at each session impacting lgbtq+ students and families, played a crucial role.
$696,267 spentof which $4,700 as grants13% of program spendingAdvocacy:local level:- collaborated with coalition partners and communities to advocate for the appointment of four lgbtq-supportive superintendents in major districts.- despite challenges from the state board of education, we persuaded multiple school boards to introduce lgbtq guides in 10 counties.- fought against a conservative board, gaining national attention for resisting a ban on over 300 books with the support of dedicated individualsstate level:- partnered with student and progressive organizations to address diversity, equity, and inclusion program removals on university campuses during the board of governors meeting for the first time this year.
$625,644 spentof which $515,000 as grants12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,226,364.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.3M to $5.4M (+138%).
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: 2020 7% · 2021 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Nadine Smith
CEO
Board chair
Annie Hiotis
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 69 funders, grant income rose $851k → $2.7M.
35 of 131 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 131 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
EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
44% 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 EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 24% · 2019 24% · 2020 22% · 2021 16% · 2022 14% · 2023 27% — 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
55% of EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 22 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC's funding base is broadening — from 22 funders to 69 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 978 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16k on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $16k
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 EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Equality Florida Inc · exempt
- Equality Florida Action Inc · exempt
- Equality Florida Action PAC Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC?
- EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC (Florida) receives grants from 131 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,959,190 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($2,854,100). 83 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 131 organizations giving $13,959,190 in grants to EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC, 83 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC?
- THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,854,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE 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.
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 131 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