Florida · Nonprofit
Fresh Start Ministries & Mentoring Inc
Fresh Start Ministries & Mentoring Inc (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,058 to it, the largest being VINIK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($35,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $73k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $96k
- Net assets
- $142k
What Fresh Start Ministries & Mentoring Inc does
Mission
Fresh Start Mentoring recruits volunteers, trains them in mentoring, and matches them up with referrals from Pinellas County probation offices and the Drug Court. Today we are starting to consider mentoring veterans and working with Veterans Court.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2025, Fresh Start Ministries & Mentoring Inc. conducted 307 mentoring sessions serving participants in Pinellas County. The program served an average of 14 participants per month and mentored 38 new participants during the year, expanding access to structured support services within the community. Sixteen individuals successfully completed the mentoring program and earned certificates of completion, demonstrating measurable progress and achievement. Additionally, 32 sessions were provided to individuals who completed the formal mentoring curriculum but chose to continue engagement on a less structured basis, reflecting strong retention and sustained involvement. These accomplishments highlight Fresh Start Ministries & Mentoring Incs continued commitment to providing structured mentorship and ongoing support to individuals in Pinellas County.
$70,810 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $70,810.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $90k to $139k (+55%).
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.
91% of Fresh Start Ministries & Mentoring Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $4k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 Fresh Start Ministries & Mentoring 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 Ministries & Mentoring Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 55% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Fresh Start Ministries & Mentoring 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. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Fresh Start Ministries & Mentoring Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,869 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Fresh Start Ministries & Mentoring 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.
Public support
100%
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 Ministries & Mentoring 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 Ministries & Mentoring Inc?
- Fresh Start Ministries & Mentoring Inc (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,058 to it, the largest being VINIK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($35,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Fresh Start Ministries & Mentoring Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $96,058 in grants to Fresh Start Ministries & Mentoring Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Fresh Start Ministries & Mentoring Inc?
- VINIK FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Fresh Start Ministries & Mentoring 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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