Florida · Nonprofit
HIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER INC
HIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER INC (Florida) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,876,687 to it, the largest being CHILDNET INC ($7,577,406). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.4M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Hibiscus Children's Center Inc does
Mission
To provide temporary shelter for abused and neglected children and support families at risk of abuse.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential programs - hibiscus residential programs provide a safe environment for newborns to 18 year olds with 24-hour awake supervision, medical and dental care, plus psychological counseling through facilities at its jensen beach shelter and vero beach children's village. At these facilities, children live in a home-like environment where they can more naturally prepare for successful transition into foster or adoptive homes. Hibiscus is the only licensed residential child care shelter on the treasure coast of florida. The facilities care for children removed from their families by court order. Hibiscus residential programs provided approximately 23,037 nights of safe care.
Clinical programs - hibiscus clinical programs provide a wide range of mental health service to residential and outpatient clients. These services include individual, family and group therapy, psychiatric evaluation, medication management and many more critical services that support children and their families in our community. Over 708 families were provided services during the year.
Support for families in crisis is a nationally recognized abuse prevention program for families who seek help voluntarily. Support includes counseling, housing and mental health services. Approximately 651 families were assisted.
Safe care program provides home-based prevention services with an individual or family focus that includes assessment, case planning, case management, education, and/or skill buidling that have shown to be effective in preventing child abuse.
$6,854,585 spent100% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,854,585.
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. 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 2022 to 2023, from $5.4M to $5.9M (+9%).
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 9% · 2021 53% · 2022 62% · 2023 63% · 2024 59% · 2025 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of HIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Matt Markley
CEO
Board chair
Michael Laporta
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 18 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $1.5M.
11 of 51 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: $3.8M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Hibiscus Children's Center Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money HIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of HIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
HIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 HIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 91% · 2019 42% · 2020 42% · 2021 27% · 2022 53% · 2023 71% — 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
45% of HIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
98% of HIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER 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. $920k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
HIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $921k on record.
- FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $841k
- STATE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $77k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $2k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER 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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Hibiscus Children's Ctr Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER INC?
- HIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER INC (Florida) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,876,687 to it, the largest being CHILDNET INC ($7,577,406). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $13,876,687 in grants to HIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER INC, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER INC?
- CHILDNET INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,577,406 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 51 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