Florida · Nonprofit
SECOND CHANCE SOCIETY INC
SECOND CHANCE SOCIETY INC (Florida) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,062,386 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD INC ($241,443). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $349k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $886k
What Second Chance Society Inc does
Mission
Second chance society, inc., (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization and was incorporated in the state of florida on march 5, 2002. The organization is supported primarily through donor contributions, grants, and the united way. Ingrained within the wording of the organization's mission statement lay its primary purpose which is to aid homeless and struggling individuals' return to a state of self-sufficiency. With self-sufficiency comes a general state of wellbeing, self-worth, revitalization, and most importantly, hope. Its secondary purpose is to provide ongoing moral encouragement to its clients to ensure their entrance back into society is as unproblematic as possible.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Hand up program the second chance society, inc.'s hand up program was established in 2001 to assist homeless and struggling individuals in the community overcome material barriers to employment. It accomplishes this in two ways. When a client is offered employment, which he/she cannot accept because they lack the means to acquire items that are required as a pre-condition of their employment, second chance society steps in to buy just those necessary items for him/her. Typically, this includes such things as work boots, uniforms, tools or licensure. Most of the clients served by the hand up program are referred to the organization by other agencies in the continuum of care for the homeless. There is an application and interview process. Also, second chance society assists homeless or struggling persons who are enrolled in viable vocational training, but who cannot afford the necessary text books and school supplies. The program provides these. Tuition is also paid on some short courses such as security and some medical courses. To date, the second chance hand up program has assisted more than 5,405 clients on the path to economic self-sufficiency. The program employs a further…
$313,053 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $313,053.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $803k to $912k (+14%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 7% · 2022 8% · 2023 12% · 2024 6% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of SECOND CHANCE SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $28k → $215k.
3 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 SECOND CHANCE SOCIETY 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.
How concentrated its funding is
SECOND CHANCE SOCIETY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
48% 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 SECOND CHANCE SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 62% · 2019 68% · 2020 28% · 2021 48% · 2022 29% · 2023 23% — 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
62% of SECOND CHANCE SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
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
84% of SECOND CHANCE SOCIETY INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $311k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
SECOND CHANCE SOCIETY INC is better cushioned than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SECOND CHANCE SOCIETY INC
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In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE SOCIETY INC?
- SECOND CHANCE SOCIETY INC (Florida) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,062,386 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD INC ($241,443). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SECOND CHANCE SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,062,386 in grants to SECOND CHANCE SOCIETY INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SECOND CHANCE SOCIETY INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD INC is the largest funder on record, with $241,443 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SECOND CHANCE SOCIETY 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 18 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