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Stet News Inc

Stet News Inc (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,691 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC ($121,177). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$273k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$167k
Net assets
$200k
0/6 repeat funders
01What it does

What Stet News Inc does

Mission

Provided coverage of local governments, businesses, development and cultural events, including more than 200 original stories. Stet's weekly newsletter reached thousands of registered readers. Its stories, often going into more depth than the newsletter, reached a monthly digital audience topping 15,000. Most stories were unique to Stet News and were made available to local news partners and made available on our website free of charge. Stet News also provides brief summaries of major stories of local interest in other publications, spanning print, broadcast and independent journalism. Stet's work has been honored with numerous journalism awards, including best newsletter, best independent website and best community news reporting in statewide and regional news contests.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provided coverage of local governments, businesses, development and events, including hundreds of original stories. Stet's weekly newsletter reached thousands of registered readers. Its stories, often going into more depth than the newsletter, are free and available to anyone on the World Wide Web.

    $122,715 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $122,715.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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.

100 = 20242024 Revenue 100 ($116k) Expenses 100 ($51k) Net assets 100 ($65k)2025 Revenue 234 ($273k) Expenses 265 ($136k) Net assets 307 ($200k)
20242025
Revenue (234)Expenses (265)Net assets (307)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $65k to $200k (+208%).

$65k
$200k
20242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of Stet News Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$65k
’24
$137k
’25
18
months of
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.

20242025
Listed33
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 Stet News Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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

Stet News Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 Stet News Inc.

73%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

87% of Stet News 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 $22k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 2 states.

CA
FL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $145k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Stet News Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin50% · top quartile
Months of reserve17.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)134% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 5%Fundraising 5%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Stet News 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 Stet News Inc?
Stet News Inc (Florida) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $166,691 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC ($121,177). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Stet News Inc have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $166,691 in grants to Stet News Inc.
Who is the largest funder of Stet News Inc?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR PALM BEACH AND MARTIN COUNTIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $121,177 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Stet News 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 FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 6 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