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FLORIDA ALLIANCE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC

FLORIDA ALLIANCE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC (Florida) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,524,096 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($6,493,311). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$968k
Funders on record
27
Grants received
$13M
Net assets
$45k
8/27 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Florida Alliance for Civic Engagement Inc does

Mission

None

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Florida alliance for civic engagement made grants to other irc section 501(c)3 public charity organizations to perform nonpartisan voter registration and civic engagement efforts. These organizations conducted extensive mail, paid phone, radio and online advertising program to educate the public on issues being debated in the state and increasing awareness of the actions of government officials at the state level. We also organized and provided information to a coalition of interested 501(c)3 organizations to educate their members and the public about the constitutional revision commission process and about issues being debated.

    $920,150 spentof which $875,000 as grants$2,775 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $920,150.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($820k) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($18k)2020 Revenue 70 ($575k) Expenses 38 ($536k) Net assets 317 ($57k)2021 Revenue 76 ($625k) Expenses 42 ($593k) Net assets 493 ($89k)2022 Revenue 117 ($957k) Expenses 72 ($1.0M) Net assets 234 ($42k)2023 Revenue 58 ($479k) Expenses 33 ($469k) Net assets 290 ($52k)2024 Revenue 118 ($968k) Expenses 69 ($975k) Net assets 251 ($45k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (118)Expenses (69)Net assets (251)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $89k to $42k (−52%).

$18k
$57k
$89k
$42k
$53k
$46k
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of FLORIDA ALLIANCE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,561 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$590k
’19
$39k
’20
$32k
’21
−$57k
’22
$10k
’23
−$7k
’24
0.6
months of
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.

Board chair

Andrew Starling

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201920202021202220232024
Listed444433
Joined·+0+1+0+0+0
No longer listed·01010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $44k → $384k.

10 of 27 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 FLORIDA ALLIANCE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT 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

FLORIDA ALLIANCE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

36% 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 FLORIDA ALLIANCE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC.

52%
largest funder
76%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 97% · 2019 71% · 2020 74% · 2021 81% · 2022 28% · 2023 39% — 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

25% of FLORIDA ALLIANCE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

FLORIDA ALLIANCE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 10 states in all.

NY
MA
OR
CA
NE
MD
DE
NC
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FLORIDA ALLIANCE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve0.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,130 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
67%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

49%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • Florida Advancement Project Inc · exempt
  • Florida for Everyone · exempt
  • Acronym Inc · exempt
  • Florida Alliance LLC · corp_trust
  • American Experiments LLC · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds FLORIDA ALLIANCE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC?
FLORIDA ALLIANCE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC (Florida) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,524,096 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($6,493,311). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FLORIDA ALLIANCE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC have?
IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $12,524,096 in grants to FLORIDA ALLIANCE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FLORIDA ALLIANCE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT INC?
THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,493,311 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FLORIDA ALLIANCE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 27 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