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Strengthen Orlando Inc

Strengthen Orlando Inc (Florida) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,536,556 to it, the largest being THE BLOOMBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($700,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$918k
Funders on record
32
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$1.4M
8/32 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%
01What it does

What Strengthen Orlando Inc does

Mission

Organized exclusively for charitable, scientific, testing for public safety, literary and/or educational purposes, and/or to foster national or international amateur sports competition and/or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals. Will provide funding and resources through fundraising to support municipal purposes of the city of orlando, florida.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.

  1. Orlando venues department (bloomberg public art challenge) - to accept grant funds from the bloomberg family foundation, inc. To be used to fund the "art pollination: building food justice through creativity" public art project. This project is a temporary public art project that addresses the broad, cultural food inequity in metropolitan orlando and seeks to garner visibility, educate, and cultivate an appreciation for and advocacy within that necessitates the delivery of healthy culturally specific food as a human right. Art installations and community engagement projects will explore habitually complex, but possibly joyful, social and ecological relationships found in food. The grant funds will cover development, execution and project-related expenditures. Fund are received by strengthen orlando and sub-granted to the city of orlando for the purpose of contributing to the cost of carryying out and/or enhancing the services outlined in the grant agreement for the benefit, in whole or in part, of the residents of the city of orlando.

    $759,926 spent
    65% of program spending

  2. Executive offices (mayor's anti-bullying initiative) - to solicit and accept funds to launch an anti-bullying campaign in middle and high schools in the city. Executive offices (mayor's neighborhood & community summit & leadership training) - to provide workshops and a forum for neighborhood and community volunteers. Executive offices (mayor's veteran advisory council) - to solicit and accept funds to promote and conduct operations and events to recognize the services of veterans who reside in the city and surrounding areas and to offer assistance as may be needed. Executive offices (orlando cares) - to solicit and accept funds to improve youth literacy and increase community safety. Executive offices (orlando mayor's martin luther king, jr. Holiday commission) - to solicit and accept funds to promote the celebration of dr. King's legacy of equality, justice, freedom, peace, and harmony for all races and cultures in greater orlando by distributing funds to nonprofit organizations and groups. Funds are also used for the humanitarian awards recognition program. Humanitarian awards are given to one student at each of the middle and high schools in orange county. Executive offices…

    $117,734 spentof which $4,670 as grants
    10% of program spending

  3. Office of business and financial services (designated contributions to the city) - to accept designated contributions to be used for public improvements and cultural amenities supported by the city of orlando, used either for projects or programs of other 501(c)(3) corporations or for those which lessen the burden of government, and distribute such donations as designated. Office of business and financial services (dubsdread golf centennial) - to expand opportunities for youth and non-traditional populations to explore and participate in golf by raising funds to provide youth golf equipment, supplies, and aids at low- or no-cost. Foster youth development through healthy outdoor amateur sporting activities. Office of business and financial services (help homeless) - to solicit and accept funds to be used towards providing housing to veterans and chronic homeless. Office of business and financial services (orlando united pulse memorial) to solicit and accept funds to be used for the development of a permanent public memorial at the site of the former pulse nightclub to honor and preserve the legacy of the 49 victims killed and all of those affected by the nightclub shooting at pulse…

    $106,508 spentof which $75,000 as grants
    9% of program spending

  4. Orlando Police Department

    $30,130 spentof which $18,365 as grants
    3% of program spending

  5. Orlando Fire Department

    $8,267 spent
    1% of program spending

  6. Economic Development

    $43,739 spentof which $7,000 as grants
    4% of program spending

  7. Office of City Commissioner

    $8,042 spent
    1% of program spending

  8. Office of Multicultural Affairs

    $34,157 spent
    3% of program spending

  9. Public Works

    $59,285 spent
    5% of program spending

The 9 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,167,788.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.4M) Expenses 100 ($2.5M) Net assets 100 ($621k)2018 Revenue 23 ($565k) Expenses 20 ($513k) Net assets 108 ($673k)2019 Revenue 19 ($462k) Expenses 19 ($480k) Net assets 106 ($655k)2020 Revenue 36 ($862k) Expenses 33 ($829k) Net assets 111 ($688k)2021 Revenue 16 ($392k) Expenses 11 ($280k) Net assets 129 ($800k)2022 Revenue 33 ($791k) Expenses 28 ($708k) Net assets 142 ($882k)2023 Revenue 21 ($514k) Expenses 23 ($588k) Net assets 130 ($808k)2024 Revenue 51 ($1.2M) Expenses 16 ($395k) Net assets 264 ($1.6M)2025 Revenue 38 ($918k) Expenses 46 ($1.2M) Net assets 224 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (38)Expenses (46)Net assets (224)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 2023 to 2024, from $892k to $1.6M (+84%).

$641k
$676k
$683k
$694k
$800k
$885k
$892k
$1.6M
$1.8M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of Strengthen Orlando Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,778 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$124k
’17
$53k
’18
−$18k
’19
$33k
’20
$111k
’21
$82k
’22
−$74k
’23
$833k
’24
−$250k
’25
17
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.

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Listed333333333
Joined·+1+0+1+0+0+0+2+1
No longer listed·10100021
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 10 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $257k → $29k.

Funder
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'19
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'22
'23
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'25*
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total
Foic Charityunclassified
$75k
Orlando Health Incunclassified
$41k
funders
10
3
4
7
7
6
4
5
3
1

9 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 Strengthen Orlando Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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

Strengthen Orlando Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 58%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

41% 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 Strengthen Orlando Inc.

46%
largest funder
58%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 84% · 2019 56% · 2020 34% · 2021 47% · 2022 34% · 2023 43% — 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

15% of Strengthen Orlando Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

Strengthen Orlando Inc draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 7 states in all.

IL
NY
NV
CA
TN
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $301k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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

Strengthen Orlando Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−27% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve16.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−11% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding Strengthen Orlando Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5k on record.

State$5k
Top programs
  • REFUNDS - GENERAL $5k

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 Strengthen Orlando 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

Athena Orlando Womens Leadership80%Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Inc80%United Arts of Central Florida Inc79%Go Full Steam Inc79%Orlando Family Stage Inc79%Mourning Family Foundation Inc78%Orlando Science Centerinc77%West Orange Dream Center Inc77%

Nationally

Athena Orlando Womens Leadership80%Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Inc80%United Arts of Central Florida Inc79%Go Full Steam Inc79%Orlando Family Stage Inc79%Arts Orange County78%Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation78%Albert Lea Freeborn County Chamber Foundation78%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

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

Public support

66%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Strengthen Orlando 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 Strengthen Orlando Inc?
Strengthen Orlando Inc (Florida) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,536,556 to it, the largest being THE BLOOMBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($700,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Strengthen Orlando Inc have?
IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $1,536,556 in grants to Strengthen Orlando Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Strengthen Orlando Inc?
THE BLOOMBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Strengthen Orlando 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 32 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