Florida · Nonprofit
HELP OF FORT MEADE INC
HELP OF FORT MEADE INC (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $792,157 to it, the largest being United Way of Central Florida Inc ($688,605). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $358k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $792k
- Net assets
- $552k
What Help of Fort Meade Inc does
Mission
The purpose of the organization is to provide emergency assistance to the people of the community offort meade, florida with food, clothing, household goods, shelter and utility assistance. The organization is designed to act as an informational and referral service, to meet the emergency needs of the area as funds permit and to develope policies and programs to meet the individual needs of the community not being met by any other agency.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Emergency assistance to the people of fort meade, florida area with food, clothing, household goods, shelter and utility assistance. Part of the funding for this program comes from the operation of a thrift store, where people from the community donate clothing and household items for the thrift store to sell or provide to the needy.
$153,056 spentof which $39,753 as grants99% of program spendingFirst steps to financial stability is a safety net program offered by united way. It's purpose is to help lower-income individuals achieve financial independence by empowering them with the tools and skills necessary to maximize their income and to build savings.
$206 spent0% of program spendingProviding of assets to accomplish mission objective
$786 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $154,048.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $225k to $426k (+89%).
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: 2019 6% · 2020 54% · 2021 16% · 2022 7% · 2023 8% · 2024 3% · 2025 2% · 2026 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of HELP OF FORT MEADE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $107k → $71k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 HELP OF FORT MEADE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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
HELP OF FORT MEADE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 HELP OF FORT MEADE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 65% · 2019 80% · 2020 90% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 78% — broadly stable.
“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 HELP OF FORT MEADE 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. $102k 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.
Against its field
HELP OF FORT MEADE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 274 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like HELP OF FORT MEADE 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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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 HELP OF FORT MEADE 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 HELP OF FORT MEADE INC?
- HELP OF FORT MEADE INC (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $792,157 to it, the largest being United Way of Central Florida Inc ($688,605). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HELP OF FORT MEADE INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $792,157 in grants to HELP OF FORT MEADE INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELP OF FORT MEADE INC?
- United Way of Central Florida Inc is the largest funder on record, with $688,605 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELP OF FORT MEADE 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 FY2026 (financials across 2019–2026), 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