Florida · Nonprofit
MIAMI DADE URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE
MIAMI DADE URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE (Florida) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,443 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR URBAN DEBATE LEAGUES ($104,208). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $73k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $150k
- Net assets
- $85k
What Miami Dade Urban Debate League does
Mission
To significantly improve the academic achievement of economically-disadvantaged students by building, supporting and sustaining a competitive debate program in urban public and charter middle and high schools in the miami-dade county, florida area and the surrounding south florida counties by providing debate workshops, tournaments and year-round debate opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Services to individuals - mdudl provides services to middle school and high school students who participate in competitive debate programs sponsored by mdudl in public and charter middle schools and high schools that serve economically-disadvantaged students in the miami-dade county area.mdudl hosts debate workshops and tournaments for students participating in mdul's debate program and will facilitate year-round debate opportunities by assisting mdudl students that desire to attend tournaments hosted by other school districts in the miami-dade county area. Mdudl may also pay entry pees to third-party debate tournaments in the miami-dade county area for students participating in its debate program that would like to compete in these third-party debate tournaments. Additionally, mdudl intends to provide stipends to the high school and middle school teachers that serve as debate coaches during the first two years of the partner school's debate program, after whic hthe mdudl-provided stipend will be phased out at such schhol. Mddudl will also pay for the meals and prizes and may pay for transportation expenss incurred in connection with each tournament and the printed materials…
$14,352 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $14,352.
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 2024 to 2025, from $120k to $85k (−29%).
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.
100% of MIAMI DADE URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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.
Board chair
Brianna H Sainte
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $47k → $29k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 MIAMI DADE URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE’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
MIAMI DADE URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 91%; 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 MIAMI DADE URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 89% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 45% — 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.
Where its funders are
MIAMI DADE URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k 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
MIAMI DADE URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE's revenue fell 42% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MIAMI DADE URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE
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.
Public support
52%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MIAMI DADE URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE?
- MIAMI DADE URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE (Florida) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $150,443 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR URBAN DEBATE LEAGUES ($104,208). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIAMI DADE URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $150,443 in grants to MIAMI DADE URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIAMI DADE URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE?
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR URBAN DEBATE LEAGUES is the largest funder on record, with $104,208 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIAMI DADE URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE 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 7 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