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PEACE LOVE & BBQ INC

PEACE LOVE & BBQ INC (Florida) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being JACK AND ALICE RICHARDSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$145k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$30k
Net assets
$20k
1/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Peace Love & Bbq Inc does

Mission

The mission of peace love & bbq, inc. Is to organize and manage periodic community events fort the purpose of raising community awareness of and funding for 501(c)(3) charitable organizations, with an emphasis on charities local to the tampa bay, florida area, and charities focused on child diseases.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To organize and manage periodic community events for the purpose of raising community awareness of and building 501(c)(3) charitable organizations, with an emphasis on charities to the tampa bay, florida area, and charities focused on child diseases. In 2025, a barbeque competition event, bbq love fest, was held at perry harvey park in downtown tampa. The competition showcased twenty plus cook teams and were judged by a group of renowned pitmasters.

    $162,307 spentof which $65,000 as grants$58,985 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $162,307.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($231k) Expenses 100 ($168k) Net assets 100 ($64k)2024 Revenue 43 ($99k) Expenses 69 ($116k) Net assets 74 ($47k)2025 Revenue 63 ($145k) Expenses 103 ($172k) Net assets 32 ($20k)
202320242025
Revenue (63)Expenses (103)Net assets (32)Peer revenue range

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 $47k to $21k (−56%).

$64k
$47k
$21k
202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

59% of PEACE LOVE & BBQ INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,582 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$64k
’23
−$17k
’24
−$26k
’25
1.4
months of
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

Daniel Hernandez

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202320242025
Listed333
Joined·+0+0
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of PEACE LOVE & BBQ 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.

Where its funders are

100% of PEACE LOVE & BBQ INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.

FL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PEACE LOVE & BBQ INC's revenue fell 37% between 2023 and 2025.

Operating margin−18% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−21% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,065 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like PEACE LOVE & BBQ 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

Farm City BBQ of Collier County76%Palm Beach Vegfest Inc76%Love Lakeland Inc75%Julie Weintraub's Hands Across the Bay Inc75%Hands Together for Haitians Inc74%Hunger Fight Inc74%Pride - Swfl Inc74%Tampa Bay Blues Foundation Inc74%

Nationally

Hbbqs Inc77%United by Bbq Inc77%River Pork Pilots Inc77%Farm City BBQ of Collier County76%Squeal on the Eel Inc76%Palm Beach Vegfest Inc76%High School Bbq Inc75%Love Lakeland Inc75%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Grill & Provisions Company · corp_trust
  • Tampa Catering Company · corp_trust
  • Adrian Fernandez Insurance · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds PEACE LOVE & BBQ INC?
PEACE LOVE & BBQ INC (Florida) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being JACK AND ALICE RICHARDSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PEACE LOVE & BBQ INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $30,000 in grants to PEACE LOVE & BBQ INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PEACE LOVE & BBQ INC?
JACK AND ALICE RICHARDSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PEACE LOVE & BBQ 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 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