Florida · Nonprofit
FRESH START FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC
FRESH START FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC (Florida) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,177 to it, the largest being LEE FOUNDATION INC ($60,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $715k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Fresh Start for Children and Families Inc does
Mission
Our goal & mission is to bring relief to the homeless, the poor and disadvantaged in our community, to give assistance with utilities, rent payments, mortgage payments and to provide food and shelter. Our purpose is to extend a helping hand to those who have fallen and to encourage them to move back into the mainstream with confidence in themselves and others.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Operate a 11 unit apartment complex that provides affordable housing to families that are homeless or are in imminent danger of becoming homeless.
$123,115 spent$73,028 earned by the program20% of program spendingTo provide transitional housing and assistance to the homeless and those in immediate danger of becoming homeless by providing food, shelter, assistance with rental payments and utility payments, bus tickets, gas cards, laundry, and a place to shower.
$337,978 spent56% of program spendingThe thrift store provides convenient and affordable clothing, household goods, and other miscellaneous items for the families that are homeless or are imminent danger of becoming homeless while also providing a location for them to volunteer and gain work experience.
$142,540 spent$407,861 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $603,633.
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.
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 $1.9M to $2.3M (+27%).
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 4% · 2018 1% · 2021 2% · 2022 0% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Donna Tashik
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $250 → $19k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $287k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Impact 100 of Northwest Florida Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money FRESH START FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of FRESH START FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES 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
FRESH START FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 63% · 2022 100% · 2023 52% — 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
20% of FRESH START FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC's funders are still giving 2 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
86% of FRESH START FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES 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. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 FRESH START FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRESH START FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES 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 FRESH START FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC?
- FRESH START FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC (Florida) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,177 to it, the largest being LEE FOUNDATION INC ($60,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRESH START FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $100,177 in grants to FRESH START FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRESH START FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC?
- LEE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRESH START FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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