Florida · Nonprofit
FAMILY INITIATIVE INC
FAMILY INITIATIVE INC (Florida) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,476,686 to it, the largest being The United Way of Lee County Inc ($1,021,700). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $6.5M
What Family Initiative Inc does
Mission
Family initiative, inc. Is committed to engaging in community partnerships to empower families and ensure the safety, permanency, and well-being of children. Utilizing a family-centered and holistic approach, our mission is to maintain transparency in collaborating with all we service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Family initiative has continued to grow and expand in 2025. Our largest programs are: clinical services: applied behavorial analysis (aba) and occupational therapy (ot), child welfare programs that include dade, sarasota county, pasco, desoto, manatee and pinellas counties, and autism community based programs, which were expanded in 2025.our autism community based programs include: autism social skills playgroup, teen hangout group, young adult group, sibling group, parent support group, fi creates, fi champs, baby and me group, video club and free autism screenings. All programs are well utilized by the community, with over 2,300 families served. We have increased the number of children served in aba and ot, including both lee county and sarasota county. Our applied behavior analysis program teaches skills and behaviors by using principles of reinforcement. Almost 100% of children served showed a reduction in problem behaviors and an increase in appropriate behaviors. Family initiative's private specialty school, thrive academy, continued to grow in 2025. Enrollment increased to 27 middle and high school students. The child welfare family impact program is based on three unique…
$4,310,262 spentof which $11,651 as grants$4,521,654 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,310,262.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.6M to $5.9M (+279%).
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: 2019 81% · 2020 33% · 2021 39% · 2022 42% · 2023 55% · 2024 58% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
36% of FAMILY INITIATIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $34k → $702k.
7 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 FAMILY INITIATIVE 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
FAMILY INITIATIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 FAMILY INITIATIVE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 65% · 2021 65% · 2022 99% · 2023 93% — 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
75% of FAMILY INITIATIVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% 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
98% of FAMILY INITIATIVE 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. $248k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
FAMILY INITIATIVE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FAMILY INITIATIVE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $997k on record.
- CONSTRUCTION SERVICES - GENERAL $678k
- STATE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $319k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $194
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 FAMILY INITIATIVE 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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Thrive Academy a Family Initiative · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAMILY INITIATIVE 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 FAMILY INITIATIVE INC?
- FAMILY INITIATIVE INC (Florida) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,476,686 to it, the largest being The United Way of Lee County Inc ($1,021,700). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAMILY INITIATIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,476,686 in grants to FAMILY INITIATIVE INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILY INITIATIVE INC?
- The United Way of Lee County Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,021,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILY INITIATIVE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 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