Florida · Nonprofit
Starter Studio FL Inc
Starter Studio FL Inc (Florida) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,246,126 to it, the largest being Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc ($1,000,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Starter Studio FL Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,946 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,946 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Universal Orlando Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- Florida Business Development Corpportfolio match
- Vilcap Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2019 14% · 2020 22% · 2021 21% · 2022 37% · 2023 81% · 2024 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of Starter Studio FL Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $1.0M → $20k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 Starter Studio FL 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
Starter Studio FL Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 Starter Studio FL Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 91% · 2019 67% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
99% of Starter Studio FL 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. $186k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Universal Orlando Foundation Incshared funderslocalFL · backs 21 organizations that share your funders · funds 83 organizations near you
- Florida Business Development Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vilcap Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nc Ideaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Community Foundation Trust of Sarasota Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for a Healthy St Petersburg Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William G and Marie Selby Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tennessee Technology Development Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prime Time Palm Beach County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Creative Pinellas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding Starter Studio FL Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $562 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $562
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 Starter Studio FL Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 Starter Studio FL 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Starter Studio FL Inc?
- Starter Studio FL Inc (Florida) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,246,126 to it, the largest being Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc ($1,000,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Starter Studio FL Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,246,126 in grants to Starter Studio FL Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Starter Studio FL Inc?
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Starter Studio FL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing