Florida · Nonprofit
LIFT ORLANDO INC
LIFT ORLANDO INC (Florida) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,473,878 to it, the largest being BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ($5,412,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Lift Orlando Inc does
Mission
Lift orlando is a nonprofit organization working with residents, business leaders, and community partners to strengthen neighborhoods so people can thrive by providing mixed-income housing, cradle-to-career education pathways, health and wellness services, and economic viability opportunities. We intentionally invest in holistic and resident-centered tools, education, and support that is created and maintained collectively alongside residents and partners.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education: lift orlando's cradle-to-career goal is to support a high performing educational pathway beginning with early childhood all the way to promising careers. Lift orlando supports the educational pathway by engaging community members and coordinating alignment between community schools, community members and best in class not-for-profits, while measuring and evaluating progress towards our shared goals. In 2024, our education services impacted 1,028 students/children, 149 teachers, and 21 schools and early learning providers, in partnership with 12 community organizations. Empowered scholars, lift orlando's college and career readiness program, supports 32805 zip code students by removing barriers to post-secondary success. The program offers one-on-one mentorship, college prep, career guidance, and a flexible final-dollar funding scholarship. In 2024, 20 students participated, and 18 received scholarships. Lift's education team executed its third year of an early learning program, now called the early learning collaborative, which supports early education providers in the 32805 zip code by providing missing resources needed to nurture young children's cognitive and social…
$1,946,944 spentof which $1,037,056 as grants41% of program spendingHousing: lift orlando's goal for mixed-income housing is to develop high-quality mixed-income homes that are affordable for residents and attract families back to the neighborhood. Lift orlando partnered to develop pendana, phase I of lift orlando's housing strategy, a mixed-income multifamily apartment community which opened in 2018. Lift continues to be actively engaged with the management company of pendana at west lakes to facilitate community engagement and desired outcomes in the community. In 2024, the housing team continued this work by exploring new opportunities to expand mixed-income housing in the surrounding area. In may of 2020, pendana senior residences (phase ii) started safely welcoming west lakes seniors age 62 and over. In 2024, lift orlando continued to work with partner columbia residential and seniors first to offer weekly activities for residents at pendana senior residences that provide physical and social support to seniors seeking activities that are beneficial to their mind, body, and spirit. Programming included games, movies, pictionary, puzzles, arts and crafts, guess the tune, crochet, gardening, education sessions, and weekly senior fitness classes…
$896,183 spentof which $59,000 as grants$37,273 earned by the program19% of program spendingCommunity quarterback: as the community quarterback in west lakes' collective impact initiative, lift orlando helps to facilitate and coordinate open collaboration between residents, nonprofit partners, businesses, and community leaders, who are collectively working to strengthen the communities of west lakes, washington shores, johnson village, lake mann, and greater 32805 zip code. Lift orlando collaborated with and provided funding to west lakes partnership (wlp) to pursue projects that increase the wealth and well-being of west lakes residents. Alongside the residential paint & beautification program, community clean-up and dream housing rehab program, wlp issues "the west lakes newsletter", with 20,942 individuals opened and viewed e-newsletters and 5,250 physical newsletters delivered to residents in 2024. Lift orlando held a quarterly open house - a free, family-friendly event featuring food trucks, live music, games, and a resource fair with partners like the city of orlando, florida blue, west lakes partnership, and goodwill. The event offers residents a chance to connect with local organizations and services. Attendance grew over the year, with 184 residents in february,…
$825,821 spentof which $146,900 as grants17% of program spendingHealth & wellness: lift orlando works to provide a mix of high-quality facilities, programs, and services that enhance health, quality of life, and increase overall life expectancy. Lift is the sponsor of the heart of west lakes wellness center, developed and operated by west lakes hwc, inc. The heart is a resident-focused center, designed to strengthen the community by providing convenient access to holistic health, financial, and lifestyle services under one roof. The two-story facility is a space for residents to connect, learn, and thrive, and features first-class amenities paired with decor that pays homage to the community's rich history. Additionally, the heart of west lakes wellness center served as an active hub of community activity and partnership programming, holding approximately 80 events that brought residents together and promoted access to health services, including those from community health center's onsite clinic. Through our partnership with florida blue, we offered weekly fitness classes, mental health sessions, a juneteenth 3k walk, and monthly mammogram and blood donation opportunities through oneblood. Furthermore, lift supported community engagement…
$719,305 spentof which $318,397 as grants$77,452 earned by the program15% of program spendingEconomic viability: lift orlando's goal in economic viability is to stimulate the neighborhood economy through investments in employment and entrepreneurship programs that increase income levels for families. Lift orlando continued to work on providing one-on-one financial coaching to residents and families, small business engagement, networking events and marketing, business development services, resume assistance, as well as the research, data, and planning to support this work. Lift's small business institute (sbi) accelerator program, channeled small businesses into its framework, offering one-on-one business development, strategic planning, and subgrants while fostering long-term mentorship and connections. After receiving 51 applications and interviewing 44 candidates, 21 participants were selected. Over eight weeks, six subject-matter experts led sessions on business development, concluding with a pitch competition. All participants completed feedback surveys, giving the program an average rating of 4.89 out of 5. Survey results showed 100% would recommend the program, 93% reported increased business knowledge, and participants valued the networking, dynamic speakers, and…
$357,565 spentof which $85,400 as grants8% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,745,818.
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 2018 to 2019, from $10M to $15M (+43%).
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: 2021 9% · 2022 2% · 2024 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of LIFT ORLANDO INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% 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 8 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $636k → $3.9M.
6 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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: $6.6M from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Orlando Health Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money LIFT ORLANDO INC raised.
From the IRS filings of LIFT ORLANDO INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
LIFT ORLANDO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 LIFT ORLANDO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 46% · 2019 53% · 2020 36% · 2021 47% · 2022 58% · 2023 51% — 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
35% of LIFT ORLANDO INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
LIFT ORLANDO INC draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M 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
LIFT ORLANDO INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,206 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,206 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding LIFT ORLANDO INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$500k
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 LIFT ORLANDO 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 12 related entities
- Lift Orlando Community Development LLC · disregarded
- Lift Orlando Community Land LLC · disregarded
- Lift Orlando Impact Investment Fund Manager LLC · disregarded
- Guinyard & Graham LLC · disregarded
- Catalyst 1955 LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LIFT ORLANDO INC?
- LIFT ORLANDO INC (Florida) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,473,878 to it, the largest being BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ($5,412,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIFT ORLANDO INC have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $16,473,878 in grants to LIFT ORLANDO INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFT ORLANDO INC?
- BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,412,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFT ORLANDO 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 42 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