Florida · Nonprofit
WATERFRONT RESCUE MISSION INC
WATERFRONT RESCUE MISSION INC (Florida) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,842,755 to it, the largest being OPENING DOORS NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC ($409,489). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $28M
What Waterfront Rescue Mission Inc does
Mission
Demonstrating god's goodness by providing rescue and recovery services in jesus' name.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In-kind donations processed and resold through waterfront rescue mission's supporting thrift stores ministry affords shoppers within the missions' communities to purchase affordable, high-quality clothing, shoes, household goods, and gently-used home furnishings at exceptional values. In turn, the proceeds generated from the thrift stores are used to provide transformative services for the underserved and those striving to overcome substance abuse and other life-dominating issues as participants work through the mission's life-changing programs. Additionally, the management and staff of the thrift stores work closely with program clients, employees, volunteers, and court-ordered community service programs to teach job skills, customer service, and teamwork, as well as to model christian integrity and strong work ethic as an investment back into the community. The waterfront thrift stores have earned several customer choice awards for "best thrift stores" on the gulf coast.
$6,986,688 spent$10,382,253 earned by the program56% of program spendingFounded in 1949, waterfront rescue mission provides rehabilitative services to underserved people and those suffering from substance abuse and other life-dominating issues. In 2025, the mission served 210,590 meals, provided 84,588 nights of shelter, distributed over 4,500 pieces of clothing, and 2,500 household items to families in need. Waterfront rescue mission helps men and women address the challenges of life-dominating issues. Healing and restoration are the goals of this bible-based model that promotes transformed, productive members of the community. Through the lifebuilder recovery program, the mission helps men overcome lifedominating addictions through the faith-based addiction recovery curriculum, the genesis process, as well as through intensive counseling, job training, financial literacy classes, and housing assistance to ensure participants are equipped to become and remain productive members of society. The mission's veterans care program serves homeless militaryveterans by coordinating with the u.s. Department of veterans affairs to provide guidance in obtaining benefits and affordable housing. The mission's arukah respite center offers a safe environment with…
$4,326,126 spent$1,224,919 earned by the program35% of program spendingWaterfront rescue mission's recycling & donation center processes, onaverage, 1,650 tons of in-kind donated recyclable materials annually. Materials are donated on-site and collected from thrift stores as an intentional effort to reduce the local environment impacts caused by the over usage of area landfills. The mission makes every effort to reduce, reuse, and recycle. In-kind donations which are not deemed safe or resalable at its thrift stores are immediately evaluated, dismantled as necessary, and sorted into recyclable components. In turn, salvaged materials are resold at current market values to provide transformative services for the underserved and those striving to overcome substance abuse and other life-dominating issues as participants work through the mission's life-changing programs. Additionally, the management and staff of the recycling & donation center work closely with program clients and employees to improve environmental awareness and to provide job skills training as they model christian integrity, strong work ethic, and stewardship as an investment back into the community.
$1,109,108 spent$450,459 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,421,922.
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 2020 to 2021, from $14M to $22M (+55%).
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.
89% of WATERFRONT RESCUE MISSION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Will Scott
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $119k → $123k.
8 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 WATERFRONT RESCUE MISSION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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
WATERFRONT RESCUE MISSION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
45% 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 WATERFRONT RESCUE MISSION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 37% · 2019 36% · 2020 21% · 2021 35% · 2022 30% · 2023 21% — 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
54% of WATERFRONT RESCUE MISSION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
55% of WATERFRONT RESCUE MISSION 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. $357k 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.
Against its field
WATERFRONT RESCUE MISSION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 488 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 488 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding WATERFRONT RESCUE MISSION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $100
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 WATERFRONT RESCUE MISSION 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 1 related entity
- Waterfront Rescue Mission Foundation Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WATERFRONT RESCUE MISSION INC?
- WATERFRONT RESCUE MISSION INC (Florida) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,842,755 to it, the largest being OPENING DOORS NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC ($409,489). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WATERFRONT RESCUE MISSION INC have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $1,842,755 in grants to WATERFRONT RESCUE MISSION INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WATERFRONT RESCUE MISSION INC?
- OPENING DOORS NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC is the largest funder on record, with $409,489 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WATERFRONT RESCUE MISSION 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.
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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 41 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