Florida · Nonprofit
STARTING RIGHT NOW
STARTING RIGHT NOW (Florida) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,614,412 to it, the largest being THE SPURLINO FOUNDATION ($530,000). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 104
- Grants received
- $7.6M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Starting Right Now does
Mission
To stop the cycle of homelessness for the younger generation through continued education and an active mentor relationship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Providing education, employment, and family stability for homeless youth.
Not described on the e-filed return.
$4,213,543 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,213,543.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $3.4M to $5.0M (+48%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
Vicki Sokolik
Executive director
Board chair
Michelle Shimberg
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 49 funders, grant income rose $391k → $1.2M.
17 of 104 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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: $1.1M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way Suncoast Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money STARTING RIGHT NOW raised.
From the IRS filings of STARTING RIGHT NOW’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 104 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
STARTING RIGHT NOW has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 7% of grant income, and it takes 12 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 12 funders to its left
33% 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 STARTING RIGHT NOW.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 14% · 2018 14% · 2019 12% · 2020 12% · 2021 15% · 2022 14% · 2023 16% — 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.
How long its funders stay
47% of STARTING RIGHT NOW's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
72% of STARTING RIGHT NOW's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $945k arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.
Government funding STARTING RIGHT NOW receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $70k on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $70k
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 STARTING RIGHT NOW
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.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 STARTING RIGHT NOW: 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 STARTING RIGHT NOW?
- STARTING RIGHT NOW (Florida) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,614,412 to it, the largest being THE SPURLINO FOUNDATION ($530,000). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STARTING RIGHT NOW have?
- IRS filings report 104 organizations giving $7,614,412 in grants to STARTING RIGHT NOW, 59 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STARTING RIGHT NOW?
- THE SPURLINO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $530,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STARTING RIGHT NOW 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 104 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