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PROMISE INC

PROMISE INC (Florida) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,849,407 to it, the largest being THE RISING PHOENIX FOUNDATION INC ($280,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.7M
Funders on record
43
Grants received
$1.8M
Net assets
$6.2M
23/43 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Promise Inc does

Mission

Promise, inc. Is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization established in 2009 that was designed to provide affordable, independent housing for individuals with cognitive and physical disabilities utilizing public and private partnerships to develop a model community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Promise's resident community program - incorporates a variety of programs and services that seek to provide a fulfilling life for each of its residents. The resident community program (rcp) includes vocational training and employment opportunities; transportation services; independent living courses; health, fitness and nutrition classes. The residents participating in the rcp have more than 60 activities per week to choose from.promise treasures thrift shoppe - opened in october 2013, is the promise treasures thrift shoppe, located in west melbourne, florida. The organization currently has eight residents on the payroll at treasures and provide vocational training for another 30 young adults with special needs and operate with the help of more than 40 community volunteers. Treasures offers a variety of boutique and furniture items, home decor, electronics, holiday items, handmade soy candles, all-natural doggie treats and more to customers. In mid-december 2023, the organization renamed the thrift shoppe to treasures boutique and relocated operations to the cafe and bakery inside aves' place.promise cafe & bakery the organization broke ground on the second social enterprise, the…

    $964,528 spent$455,004 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $964,528.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 230 ($4.4M) Expenses 144 ($1.9M) Net assets 310 ($4.2M)2019 Revenue 90 ($1.7M) Expenses 108 ($1.4M) Net assets 332 ($4.5M)2020 Revenue 87 ($1.7M) Expenses 108 ($1.4M) Net assets 351 ($4.7M)2021 Revenue 85 ($1.6M) Expenses 116 ($1.5M) Net assets 359 ($4.8M)2022 Revenue 110 ($2.1M) Expenses 132 ($1.7M) Net assets 387 ($5.2M)2023 Revenue 101 ($1.9M) Expenses 130 ($1.7M) Net assets 405 ($5.4M)2024 Revenue 83 ($1.6M) Expenses 113 ($1.5M) Net assets 413 ($5.6M)2025 Revenue 90 ($1.7M) Expenses 101 ($1.3M) Net assets 460 ($6.2M)
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Revenue (90)Expenses (101)Net assets (460)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 2017 to 2018, from $3.7M to $6.0M (+62%).

$3.7M
$6.0M
$6.1M
$6.2M
$6.4M
$5.4M
$5.5M
$5.6M
$6.6M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 8% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

59% of PROMISE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$607k
’17
$2.5M
’18
$299k
’19
$250k
’20
$111k
’21
$373k
’22
$227k
’23
$115k
’24
$396k
’25
21
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

Jeff Kiel

CEO

Board chair

Dr Lori D Bradstreet

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.

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Listed9109121011111212
Joined·+1+4+3+0+2+4+2+1
No longer listed·05021411
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $92k → $324k.

10 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 PROMISE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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

PROMISE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

38% 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 PROMISE INC.

15%
largest funder
35%
top three
~14
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 44% · 2019 34% · 2020 65% · 2021 53% · 2022 35% · 2023 37% — 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.

How long its funders stay

35% of PROMISE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

PROMISE INC draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 13 states in all.

ME
VT
IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
KY
DE
NC
DC
LA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $453k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PROMISE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin23% · top quartile
Months of reserve21.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding PROMISE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.

State$2k
22
24
Top programs
  • REFUNDS - GENERAL $2k

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 PROMISE 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 21%Fundraising 6%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

80%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Promise in Brevard Development LLC · disregarded
  • Promise in Brevard Member LLC · disregarded

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROMISE 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds PROMISE INC?
PROMISE INC (Florida) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,849,407 to it, the largest being THE RISING PHOENIX FOUNDATION INC ($280,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PROMISE INC have?
IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $1,849,407 in grants to PROMISE INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PROMISE INC?
THE RISING PHOENIX FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $280,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PROMISE 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.

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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 43 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