Florida · Nonprofit
St Petersburg Innovation District Inc
St Petersburg Innovation District Inc (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,500 to it, the largest being Foundation for a Healthy St Petersburg Inc ($48,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $94k
- Net assets
- $463k
What St Petersburg Innovation District Inc does
Mission
The mission of the St. Petersburg Innovation District is to develop St. Petersburg into an environment that fosters job growth, economic development, learning and inspiration by bringing innovative people and organizations together. Our vision is to harness the potential of people, institutions and businesses in the St. Petersburg Innovation District to generate collaborative solutions that will benefit the world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Facilitate greater inclusionary collaboration in search of innovation. The purpose of this activity is to increase multi-sector, cross discipline collaboration by introducing people to each other and the research or work being performed. These collaborations include organizational tours, networking events, STEM activities and speakers or panel discussions. The expectation is that by increasing collaboration we are able to find creative solutions to address community issues and generate employment opportunities for newcomers to the city and citizens in surrounding neighborhoods. Collaborations are tracked and successes shared with the broader community in the website, e-newsletter and social media. This activity is important to the purpose of the organization because it is how we foster learning and inspiration that can in turn support job growth and economic development. This activity is ongoing and occurs predominately in the District, with some events extending into the greater St. Petersburg area. The activity is guided by the Organization's Board of Directors, coordinated by the Organization's Executive Director, and performed by individuals within the member organizations.
Attract new, diverse and intellectual capacity. The purpose of this activity is to fuel the economic growth of St. Petersburg. This is accomplished by enhancing the research and education capabilities, assisting in the recruitment and diversification of the employment base, and assisting in the attraction or incubation of new businesses. This activity includes encouraging new research projects, providing support for companies looking to relocate, and assisting in the expansion of incubator organizations. This activity is important for the Organization to enable job growth through the addition of new employers and expansion of existing employers. This activity is ongoing and occurs predominately in the District, with some events extending into the greater St. Petersburg area. The activity is guided by the Organization's Board of Directors, coordinated by the Organization's Executive Director, and performed by individuals within the member organizations.
Create a sense of place. The purpose of this activity is to physically connect the organizations and spaces in the Organization to support collaboration and attract businesses and talent. This activity includes installing new directional signage, redesigning streets to accomodate walkers and bikers, and encouraging the opening of amenities such as coffee shops and collaborative spaces. This activity began in 2015 with a study conducted by the City of St. Petersburg. The City of St. Petersburg is funding and managing the new signage and street redesign project. The Organization's Board of Directors is guiding the discussion of new amenities in coordination with the City of St. Petersburg, coordinated by the Organization's Executive Director.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $132k to $476k (+261%).
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: 2020 19% · 2021 11% · 2022 11% · 2023 5% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of St Petersburg Innovation District Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% 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.
Chief executive
Alison Barlow
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $26k → $3k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $110k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Tampa Bay Wave Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money St Petersburg Innovation District Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of St Petersburg Innovation District 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
St Petersburg Innovation District Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% 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
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 St Petersburg Innovation District Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 78% · 2020 83% · 2021 79% · 2022 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
71% of St Petersburg Innovation District 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. $25k 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
St Petersburg Innovation District Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding St Petersburg Innovation District Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $95k on record.
- Department of Commerce$95k
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 St Petersburg Innovation District 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for St Petersburg Innovation District 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 St Petersburg Innovation District Inc?
- St Petersburg Innovation District Inc (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,500 to it, the largest being Foundation for a Healthy St Petersburg Inc ($48,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does St Petersburg Innovation District Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $93,500 in grants to St Petersburg Innovation District Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of St Petersburg Innovation District Inc?
- Foundation for a Healthy St Petersburg Inc is the largest funder on record, with $48,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like St Petersburg Innovation District 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 3 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