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West Florida Area Health Education Cente
West Florida Area Health Education Cente (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $765,933 to it, the largest being Northwest Florida Area Agency on Aging Inc ($765,907). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $766k
- Net assets
- $795k
What West Florida Area Health Education Cente does
Mission
The quality of health among florida's rural residents continues to be of increasing concern. West florida ahec not only strives to improve the health of those in our metropolitan areas and the health of those in our countries' rural areas, they are also concerned with the medically underserved areas and health professional shortage areas. Therefore west florida ahec, alongside its strong partnerships with community and government organizations is on a mission to promote health and wellness in its 4-county service area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The tobacco free florida ahec cessation program offers free groups in the community to help people quit tobacco for good. The cessation programs are led by trained specialists who guide participants through the quitting process. They help identify triggers and withdrawal symptoms and brainstorm ways to cope with them. Cessation groups are hosted at local public community centers, libraries, and hospitals. West florida ahec also offers private workplace cessation groups.
$806,359 spent52% of program spendingThe navigator program, established by the aca, provides free, unbiased assistance to individuals and small businesses looking for health insurance through the marketplace. Certified navigators offer impartial guidance on plan options, help with eligibility and enrollment forms, and facilitate access to medicaid or chip.
$465,551 spent30% of program spendingThe healthy aging program works with adults 60 and older to improve health and well-being.
$160,395 spent10% of program spendingOther
$108,560 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,540,865.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $821k to $1.0M (+28%).
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: 2018 93% · 2021 94% · 2022 97% · 2023 96% · 2024 97% · 2025 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of West Florida Area Health Education Cente’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Paige Arnup
Executive director
Board chair
George Smith
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $83k → $110k.
1 of 2 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 West Florida Area Health Education Cente’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
West Florida Area Health Education Cente leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 West Florida Area Health Education Cente.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of West Florida Area Health Education Cente's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26 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
West Florida Area Health Education Cente runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like West Florida Area Health Education Cente
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
96% 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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for West Florida Area Health Education Cente: 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 West Florida Area Health Education Cente?
- West Florida Area Health Education Cente (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $765,933 to it, the largest being Northwest Florida Area Agency on Aging Inc ($765,907). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does West Florida Area Health Education Cente have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $765,933 in grants to West Florida Area Health Education Cente, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of West Florida Area Health Education Cente?
- Northwest Florida Area Agency on Aging Inc is the largest funder on record, with $765,907 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like West Florida Area Health Education Cente 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 2 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