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FRESH START MINISTRIES OF CENTRAL FL INC

FRESH START MINISTRIES OF CENTRAL FL INC (Florida) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,743 to it, the largest being J M RAGEN JR MEMORIAL TRUST ($44,265). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.2M
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$107k
Net assets
$1.8M
4/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Fresh Start Ministries of Central Fl Inc does

Mission

Faith-based substance abuse and discipleship program

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Residential substance abuse program for men. The year long program provides 12 step and life skills classes to men in subtance abuse recovery. Additionally, the program provides pastoral counseling.

    $708,277 spent$481,041 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $708,277.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($919k) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($1.8M)2021 Revenue 126 ($1.2M) Expenses 94 ($1.0M) Net assets 107 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 108 ($996k) Expenses 94 ($1.0M) Net assets 105 ($1.9M)2023 Revenue 110 ($1.0M) Expenses 95 ($1.0M) Net assets 102 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 106 ($974k) Expenses 106 ($1.2M) Net assets 92 ($1.6M)2025 Revenue 135 ($1.2M) Expenses 92 ($1.0M) Net assets 104 ($1.8M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (135)Expenses (92)Net assets (104)

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 $2.0M to $1.8M (−12%).

$2.3M
$2.1M
$2.0M
$2.0M
$1.8M
$2.0M
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$176k
’20
$124k
’21
−$34k
’22
−$29k
’23
−$185k
’24
$229k
’25
7.2
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.

Chief executive

Joseph P Cordovano

Executive director/president

Board chair

Dr Richard M Dunn

Board chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed9109988
Joined·+1+0+3+0+0
No longer listed·01310
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $22k → $51k.

5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 OF CENTRAL FL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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

FRESH START MINISTRIES OF CENTRAL FL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

56% 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 FRESH START MINISTRIES OF CENTRAL FL INC.

41%
largest funder
84%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 80% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 86% — 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

25% of FRESH START MINISTRIES OF CENTRAL FL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

56% of FRESH START MINISTRIES OF CENTRAL FL INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $47k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 3 states.

MN
NY
FL

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

’17
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

Organizations like FRESH START MINISTRIES OF CENTRAL FL INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 30%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRESH START MINISTRIES OF CENTRAL FL INC?
FRESH START MINISTRIES OF CENTRAL FL INC (Florida) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $106,743 to it, the largest being J M RAGEN JR MEMORIAL TRUST ($44,265). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FRESH START MINISTRIES OF CENTRAL FL INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $106,743 in grants to FRESH START MINISTRIES OF CENTRAL FL INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRESH START MINISTRIES OF CENTRAL FL INC?
J M RAGEN JR MEMORIAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $44,265 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRESH START MINISTRIES OF CENTRAL FL 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 9 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