Florida · Nonprofit
HONEY SHINE INC
HONEY SHINE INC (Florida) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $362,335 to it, the largest being MICKY AND MADELEINE ARISON FAMILY FOUNDATION C/O RICHARD KOHAN AFO LLC ($175,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $337k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $362k
- Net assets
- $554k
What Honey Shine Inc does
Mission
To encourage the balance of mind, body and soul in girls and women by providing nurturingexperiences that enlighten their paths and empower their future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Honey shine, inc. Provides uniform t-shirts, healthy meals (breakfast and lunch), transportation and a variety of supplies to facilitate hands-on learning for 250 female mentees to attend workshops twice a month. The workshops further honey shine's vision to "empower girls to shine as women," by teaching them life skills designed to boost their self-esteem and expand their world view. Each workshop covers a variety of topics including: social and behavioral etiquette, health and wellness, cultural arts, career exploration, college preparation, communication skills, bullying, financial literacy and other topics that prepare them for leadership roles in their schools and communities. Workshops are held at a variety of locations throughout south florida to encourage confidence in any setting. The mentees are affectionately referred to as "honey bugs," representing various ethnicities, including african american (80%), hispanic (19%), and caucasian (1%), from the areas of miami-dade county where primarily the median income range for most single family households is $30,000 - $35,000 annually.
$198,700 spent100% of program spendingHoney shine graduates girls from the program upon their completion of high school. Many of these young ladies have excelled in their academic performance, and qualify for a scholarship through honey shine, sponsored by a variety of donors. These former honey bugs receive funds to apply toward tuition and/or the cost of living, providing they maintain an average gpa of 2.5, and that they submit proof of their grades each semester. These endowments are then disbursed to the students via the program.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $198,700.
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 2023 to 2024, from $709k to $439k (−38%).
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 55% · 2018 55% · 2019 25% · 2021 13% · 2022 67% · 2023 74% · 2024 70% · 2025 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of HONEY SHINE 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. 3 of the last 9 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
Tina Brown
CEO
Board chair
Michelle Febres
Board chairwoman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $45k → $69k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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: $824k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mourning Family Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money HONEY SHINE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of HONEY SHINE 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
HONEY SHINE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 75%; 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 56% · 2018 67% · 2019 55% · 2020 68% · 2021 83% · 2022 67% · 2023 36% — 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
50% of HONEY SHINE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
88% of HONEY SHINE 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. $32k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
HONEY SHINE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,673 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,673 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HONEY SHINE 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Mourning Family Foundation Inc · exempt
- Zo's Fund for Life Inc · exempt
- Overtown Youth Center Inc · exempt
- Oyc Property Holdings Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HONEY SHINE INC?
- HONEY SHINE INC (Florida) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $362,335 to it, the largest being MICKY AND MADELEINE ARISON FAMILY FOUNDATION C/O RICHARD KOHAN AFO LLC ($175,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HONEY SHINE INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $362,335 in grants to HONEY SHINE INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HONEY SHINE INC?
- MICKY AND MADELEINE ARISON FAMILY FOUNDATION C/O RICHARD KOHAN AFO LLC is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HONEY SHINE 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 11 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing