Florida · Nonprofit
Only The Beginning
Only The Beginning (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,125 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($16,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $138k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $21k
- Net assets
- $1
What Only The Beginning does
Mission
Student incentive programs and computer game room at local elementary middle schools: otb installing 10+ computers and digital learning tools and study services in an area looking to service approx 100 students weekly.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Student study and computer science room at local middle school: otb was successful in installing 10+ computers and learning tools and study services in an inner city middle school. This area will service an estimated 50 children per week.
$53,808 spent88% of program spendingOtb golf tournament: the golf tournament was a fundraiser to offset program fees for the current fiscal year projects.
$7,313 spent12% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $61,121.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 at each year end, in dollars.
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.
23% of Only The Beginning’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 Only The Beginning’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
Only The Beginning leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Only The Beginning.
“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
76% of Only The Beginning'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 $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Florida funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Only The Beginning's revenue fell 16% between 2022 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,457 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like Only The Beginning
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Only The Beginning: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Only The Beginning?
- Only The Beginning (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,125 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($16,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Only The Beginning have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $21,125 in grants to Only The Beginning, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Only The Beginning?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $16,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Only The Beginning 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 FY2023 (financials across 2022–2023), and the filings of 2 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