Florida · Nonprofit
TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC
TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC (Florida) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,230,674 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ($1,505,565). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $121M
- Funders on record
- 90
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $38M
What Tidewell Hospice Inc does
Mission
Tidewell hospice's mission is helping people live well by providing care, comfort and compassion. While honoring human dignity and personal choice, tidewell treats the whole person through quality end-of-life programs that fulfill physical, emotional and spiritual needs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Tidewell provide a full spectrum of programs and services designed to respond to the needs of patients and families who are living with advanced illness. From medical to psychosocial and spiritual services, tidewell cares for the whole person. Tidewell also goes beyond typical hospice services by providing a large variety of alternative services - pet, horticulture, art, music, aromatherapies, reiki, therapeutic massage and more. Tidewell hospice provided 471,546 patient days of hospice care to patients and their families throughout sarasota, manatee, charlotte, and desoto counties. During fy25, tidewell hospice provided over $3,316,040 in unreimbursed services and community benefits, fulfilling a key part of tidewell's mission to serve all those in need, regardless of their ability to pay. Rather than a place, hospice is a philosophy - a program of care and support (continued on schedule o)
$80,073,135 spentof which $41,602 as grants$101,139,651 earned by the program85% of program spendingHospice houses since their inception, tidewell's hospice houses have been the site of residential care for those at the end of life who have no caregiver or whose caregiver is no longer able to care for them at home. Tidewell's seven hospice houses are also licensed as inpatient care facilities, allowing for the skilled nursing care of patients whose needs previously could only be met in the hospital setting. Patients in need of continuous symptom control can be admitted for around-the-clock care while their condition is stabilized. Tidewell hospice provided hospice house care to patients and their families in fy25.
$12,518,021 spent$15,594,563 earned by the program13% of program spendingGrief support tidewell offers a wide variety of bereavement services, including individual counseling sessions and ongoing grief and loss support groups. There are support groups for adults, as well as children and teens - and a variety of grief-specific groups for survivors or suicide, loved ones of military veterans, parents who are grieving the loss of a child and more. All bereavement services are offered at no cost. Services are provided to anyone who has experienced the death of a loved one, not just those who have had a loved one who received tidewell services.
$713,146 spent1% of program spendingComplementary services used together with conventional medicine, these therapies reduce stress, relieve pain and create distraction and opportunities for joy. Programs include: expressive art, a type of art that is not concerned with the end result, but rather with the creative process. It diverts the patient's attention from stressful symptoms. Music therapy brings the body into harmony and encourages a release of endorphins which help stop pain. Horticultural activities uses plants and gardening activities to reduce stress and discomfort, alleviate depression and feelings of boredom and loneliness. Pet therapy brings back memories of favorite pets and triggers discussion. Tidewell's clowns visit area nursing homes and assisted living facilities to bring cheer and laughter. Aromatherapy uses essential oils to benefit the mind, body and spirit. They can be calming, antiseptic, stimulating and meditative. Therapeutic massage, reiki and caring touch contribute to pain and stress management and evoke relaxation.
$400,241 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $93,704,543.
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.
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 $35M to $58M (+67%).
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: 2020 2% · 2021 3% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (17% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Jonathan Fleece
President/CEO
Board chair
Matt Mayper
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 23 funders to 21 funders, grant income fell $493k → $272k.
17 of 90 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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: $28M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Tidewell Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 90 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
TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 58% · 2019 56% · 2020 52% · 2021 19% · 2022 25% · 2023 24% — diversifying over time.
“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
28% of TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
67% of TIDEWELL HOSPICE 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 $1.4M that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 180 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 180 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $85k on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $85k
- FEES - GENERAL - COMMODITIES $308
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 TIDEWELL HOSPICE 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 24 related entities
- Empath-Stratum Inc · exempt
- Empath Medical Services Division Inc · exempt
- Stratum Health System Inc · exempt
- Empath Home Health Division Inc · exempt
- Hospice of Marion County Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC?
- TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC (Florida) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,230,674 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ($1,505,565). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC have?
- IRS filings report 90 organizations giving $4,230,674 in grants to TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,505,565 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TIDEWELL HOSPICE 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 90 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