Florida · Nonprofit
START PROGRAM INC
START PROGRAM INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,290 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($104,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $97k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $143k
- Net assets
- $28k
What Start Program Inc does
Mission
Striving to Attain Remarkable Teens (START) Is a Non-Profit After-School Program that provides community-driven, experienced-based learning opportunities to middle/high school students up to 19 years old with a connection to Miami, Florida's West Coconut Grove Community who have financial and domestic hardships to develop character and academic skills necessary for lifelong success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2025, the START Program provided educational, cultural, and enrichment activities to support marginalized youth. Program participants attended multiple excursions designed to increase exposure to academic, cultural, and community environments not typically accessible due to financial or family barriers. START hosted a Community Self Care Weekend prior to the 2025-2026 school year, offering free services and resources to students and families. Services included on site eye examinations provided by Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, BMI screenings from the University of Miami BioMed Supply Chain, a youth fitness session, spinal alignment checks and backpack safety demonstrations, and STEM activities facilitated by community partners. School supplies and meals were distributed at no cost. The organization delivered Fiscal and Financial Literacy Workshops through participation in Miami Dade County Public Schools' Summer Youth Internship Program, providing high school students with a six week paid internship and assisting interns with opening bank accounts at EdFed Educational Credit Union. Throughout the year, START operated a Free Hot Meal Program, providing hot meals to approximately…
$82,723 spentof which $307 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $82,723.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $69k to $34k (−51%).
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.
100% of START PROGRAM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Phyllis Bellinger
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $17k → $26k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 START PROGRAM 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
START PROGRAM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 START PROGRAM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 100% · 2020 53% · 2022 80% · 2023 77% — 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
88% of START PROGRAM INC'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 $17k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $127k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
START PROGRAM INC has grown faster than half of the 3,356 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,356 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like START PROGRAM 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.
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 START PROGRAM 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 START PROGRAM INC?
- START PROGRAM INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,290 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($104,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does START PROGRAM INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $143,290 in grants to START PROGRAM INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of START PROGRAM INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $104,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like START PROGRAM 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 5 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