Florida · Nonprofit
NEMA FOUNDATION INC
NEMA FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,387,338 to it, the largest being HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ($39,025,640). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. NEMA FOUNDATION INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
NEMA FOUNDATION INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programNEMA FOUNDATION INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$151M
Recipients
0
Contributions on record
$114M
Donors on record
73
Payments out are 1.32x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared funders
- 2040 Foundation Incportfolio match
- Bluco Cares Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $2.7M → $17M.
34 of 74 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 NEMA FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 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.
Where its funders are
56% of NEMA FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $50M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 21 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 74 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 69 organizations that share your funders
- 2040 Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bluco Cares Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- E4e Relief LLCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- DTCareportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Birk Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tauck Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oracle Health Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Someone Cares Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Still Waters 232 Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 117 organizations that share your funders
- Givinga Foundation Incshared fundersMA · backs 76 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 3 related entities
- Helping Hands Ministries Inc · exempt
- Helping Hands Support Inc · exempt
- Helping Hands Charitable Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEMA FOUNDATION 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds NEMA FOUNDATION INC?
- NEMA FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,387,338 to it, the largest being HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ($39,025,640). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. NEMA FOUNDATION INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does NEMA FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $114,387,338 in grants to NEMA FOUNDATION INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEMA FOUNDATION INC?
- HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $39,025,640 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEMA FOUNDATION 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 74funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing