Florida · Nonprofit
THE OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND OF FLORIDA INC
THE OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND OF FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,604,460 to it, the largest being HEALTHY START MOMCARE NETWORK INC ($21,336,572). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $39M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $38M
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What The Ounce of Prevention Fund of Florida Inc does
Mission
To identify, fund, and evaluate health, education, and other social service programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
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$6,959,268 spentof which $4,097,573 as grants18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $37,620,912.
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. 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 $8.9M to $12M (+29%).
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 95% · 2020 96% · 2021 94% · 2022 94% · 2023 96% · 2024 95% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of THE OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND OF FLORIDA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Jennifer Ohlsen
President/CEO
Board chair
T Wayne Davis
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $4.1M → $4.5M.
2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 THE OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND OF FLORIDA 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
THE OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND OF FLORIDA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 THE OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND OF FLORIDA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 50% · 2019 48% · 2020 55% · 2021 65% · 2022 52% · 2023 58% — 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
50% of THE OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND OF FLORIDA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
100% of THE OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND OF FLORIDA 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. $40k 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.
Against its field
THE OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND OF FLORIDA INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND OF FLORIDA 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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND OF FLORIDA INC?
- THE OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND OF FLORIDA INC (Florida) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,604,460 to it, the largest being HEALTHY START MOMCARE NETWORK INC ($21,336,572). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND OF FLORIDA INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $37,604,460 in grants to THE OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND OF FLORIDA INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND OF FLORIDA INC?
- HEALTHY START MOMCARE NETWORK INC is the largest funder on record, with $21,336,572 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND OF FLORIDA 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 15 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