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SW FLORIDA NEWCOMER IMMIGRANT EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC dba NICERFL
SW FLORIDA NEWCOMER IMMIGRANT EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC dba NICERFL (Florida) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $16 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($16). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $9k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $16
- Net assets
- $-7466
What SW FLORIDA NEWCOMER IMMIGRANT EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC dba NICERFL does
Mission
NicerFL Welcome Centers are committed to empowering recent refugees and new immigrants for successful integration into the economic, cultural, and social life of Tampa Bay and the Suncoast regions of Florida. Through partnerships with local entities and the dedication of resident volunteers, we offer free English Life Skills classes for adults and a Newcomer Youth Program for their children. We also provide resource mentoring, family education workshops, and community engagement activities to address the unique challenges faced by newcomers. In the year 2023, NicerFL's welcome centers were operational both online and in-person across 4 locations. These centers provided 3 programs: Newcomer Resources, Newcomer Family and Literacy Education, and the Citizenship Program. A total of 152 volunteer tutors dedicated a substantial 5189 service hours to assist 347 adult newcomer refugees, as well as other new immigrants, alongside 65 newcomer youth.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
We spent $4553 this year to support our Newcomer Resources Program and individual immigrants and refugees. Local resident volunteers are matched with newcomer immigrants to provide information and mentor them. Career resource mentors assist with job search and preparation. Cultural connectors, who share the same cultural background, offer in-person and online mentorship through WhatsApp groups. We have a Facebook group for Resources for Refugees and New Immigrants with 105 subscribers. NicerFL hosts workshops and invites speakers on various topics such as transportation, taxes, local government permits, rentals, insurance, safety, law, retirement, and finances. Immigrant clients are paired with career mentors or trade-specific mentors to aid them in job search, applications, interviews, and career preparation. Resource guides are available for each location and are used by Resource Mentors and Tutors. We organized 3 center events, 5 workshops, and 2 well-being sessions for refugees. 54 refugees and new immigrants received mentoring and resources from 28 volunteer resource mentors, totaling 125 service hours
$777 spentof which $3,776 as grants9% of program spendingWe spent $ 6249 to support the educational and literacy development of new immigrants and refugees with our Newcomer Family Education and Literacy Program. At NicerFL's 4 centers, 94 volunteer tutors delivered 2652 hours of in-person instruction in English Life Skills classes for beginners, intermediates, and advanced conversation partners. These classes catered to 214 adult newcomer students. Additionally, 30 online volunteer tutors provided online English Life Skills classes and individual tutoring to 133 adult newcomers, along with an advanced conversation group, totaling 785 hours of instruction. Within the Newcomer Youth Program, 14 volunteer tutors dedicated 1504 in-person tutoring hours and 148 hours of online individual tutoring in English, reading, math, and science to 49 immigrant children. 4 volunteer tutors organized 42 hours of art and music classes at the Barbara Ponce Library in Pinellas Park, benefiting 10 newcomer children. 3 volunteer mentors provided 47 hours of college preparation and counseling to 6 college-bound newcomer youth.
$6,249 spent76% of program spendingWe spent $1200 to further develop our Citizenship Pathways Program. At NicerFL, 3 volunteer tutors dedicated 256 hours to English and Citizenship Test Preparation for 7 immigrant students. The classes focused on Civics and test readiness and were divided into two small group sessions for personalized attention. Citizenship preparation has a profound impact on immigrants aspiring to become citizens. It provides a deeper understanding of rights, responsibilities, and values associated with their new citizenship. Immigrants acquire language skills and knowledge necessary to navigate the citizenship test, enabling active participation in their adopted country's democratic processes. Additionally, citizenship preparation fosters a sense of belonging and community among immigrants.
$1,200 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $8,226.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $2k to $2k (−26%).
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 SW FLORIDA NEWCOMER IMMIGRANT EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC dba NICERFL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Maya Lane
President CEO
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SW FLORIDA NEWCOMER IMMIGRANT EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC dba NICERFL’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.
Where its funders are
100% of SW FLORIDA NEWCOMER IMMIGRANT EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC dba NICERFL'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SW FLORIDA NEWCOMER IMMIGRANT EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC dba NICERFL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,386 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,386 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SW FLORIDA NEWCOMER IMMIGRANT EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC dba NICERFL?
- SW FLORIDA NEWCOMER IMMIGRANT EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC dba NICERFL (Florida) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $16 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($16). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SW FLORIDA NEWCOMER IMMIGRANT EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC dba NICERFL have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $16 in grants to SW FLORIDA NEWCOMER IMMIGRANT EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC dba NICERFL.
- Who is the largest funder of SW FLORIDA NEWCOMER IMMIGRANT EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC dba NICERFL?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $16 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SW FLORIDA NEWCOMER IMMIGRANT EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC dba NICERFL 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 FY2023 (financials across 2022–2023), and the filings of 1 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