Florida · Nonprofit
Winterfest Inc
Winterfest Inc (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,400 to it, the largest being HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL INC ($55,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $115k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Winterfest Inc does
Mission
To provide quality, wholesome family entertainment while creating national attention for the Greater Fort Lauderdale destination. Most significant activity is the Seminole Hard Rock Winterfest
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Winterfests main program event is the Fort Lauderdale Boat Parade. The purpose is to promote the Greater Fort Lauderdale area. The Boat Parade provides a major holiday event with an estimated attendance of 1 million and local and national media coverage.
$1,623,385 spent$1,465,326 earned by the program87% of program spendingVarious smaller events surrounding the Fort Lauderdale Boat Parade for the purpose of promoting the Fort Lauderdale area and bringing people into Fort Lauderdale prior to and during the holiday season.
$237,727 spent$207,289 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,861,112.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $913k to $1.5M (+63%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 10 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
Lisa B Scott-Founds
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $10k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $165k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Baptist Health South Florida Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Winterfest Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Winterfest 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
Winterfest Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 Winterfest Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
91% of Winterfest 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. 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.
Organizations like Winterfest 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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Winterfest Inc: 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 Winterfest Inc?
- Winterfest Inc (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,400 to it, the largest being HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL INC ($55,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Winterfest Inc have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $115,400 in grants to Winterfest Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Winterfest Inc?
- HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $55,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Winterfest 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 5 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