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FLORIDA INSTITUTE FOR REFORM AND EM DBA ORGANIZE FLORIDA EDUCATION FUND
FLORIDA INSTITUTE FOR REFORM AND EM DBA ORGANIZE FLORIDA EDUCATION FUND (Florida) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,204,491 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($3,132,688). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- —
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $0
What Florida Institute for Reform and Em Dba Organize Florida Education Fund does
Mission
Organize florida education fund is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that both trains and develops leaders and organizes families in low-to- moderate income communities in florida. Our vision is for these communities to become critically engaged in the political
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Third party voter registration project: in 2021, off engaged in a voter registration project to educate the community regarding the importance of involvement in the political system.
Disaster resilience initiative: in 2021, off launched its disaster resiliance initiative in central florida. We educated communities on how to prepare for the aftermath of natural disasters and participatory budgeting. We also brought them together with locla preparedness officials and elected officials to talk about the unique needs of each of their communities.
Leadership development: ofef participated in additional activities that support their mission statement during 2021. These activities include the leadership development program that provides workshop training and the reproductive justice program that educates the public regarding current policies and advocates for wome to have access to medically accurate information concerning healthcare services.
The 3 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $3.1M to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Stephanie Porta
CEO
Board chair
Debbie Soto
Board chair
As listed on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 11 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $1.7M → $5.
12 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 INSTITUTE FOR REFORM AND EM DBA ORGANIZE FLORIDA EDUCATION FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
FLORIDA INSTITUTE FOR REFORM AND EM DBA ORGANIZE FLORIDA EDUCATION FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
65% 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 INSTITUTE FOR REFORM AND EM DBA ORGANIZE FLORIDA EDUCATION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 28% · 2019 37% · 2020 27% · 2021 67% · 2022 100% — 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
26% of FLORIDA INSTITUTE FOR REFORM AND EM DBA ORGANIZE FLORIDA EDUCATION FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 37% 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 FY2022, 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 INSTITUTE FOR REFORM AND EM DBA ORGANIZE FLORIDA EDUCATION FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M 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.
Organizations like FLORIDA INSTITUTE FOR REFORM AND EM DBA ORGANIZE FLORIDA EDUCATION FUND
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FLORIDA INSTITUTE FOR REFORM AND EM DBA ORGANIZE FLORIDA EDUCATION FUND?
- FLORIDA INSTITUTE FOR REFORM AND EM DBA ORGANIZE FLORIDA EDUCATION FUND (Florida) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,204,491 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($3,132,688). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FLORIDA INSTITUTE FOR REFORM AND EM DBA ORGANIZE FLORIDA EDUCATION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $12,204,491 in grants to FLORIDA INSTITUTE FOR REFORM AND EM DBA ORGANIZE FLORIDA EDUCATION FUND, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FLORIDA INSTITUTE FOR REFORM AND EM DBA ORGANIZE FLORIDA EDUCATION FUND?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,132,688 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FLORIDA INSTITUTE FOR REFORM AND EM DBA ORGANIZE FLORIDA EDUCATION FUND 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 FY2021 (financials across 2018–2020), and the filings of 35 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