Downtown Business Association of Tallahassee Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
830546575
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
Location
Tallahassee, FL, USA
Phone
8505109922
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Professional Societies, Associations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$123,250
Expenses
$115,262
Assets
$31,758
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MICHELE WHITE (PRESIDENT)
  • ERIC HAMILTON (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • MICHELE WHITE (PRESIDENT)
  • ERIC HAMILTON (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • ALAN HANSTEIN (TREASURER)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The downtown business association is a collection of businesses, organizations, and individuals with a common goal of promoting commerce, entertainment, and living in downtown tallahassee.

What it reported doing in 2025

The DBA of Tallahassee holds membership meetings with business owners to discuss local issues impacting the downtown area. Speakers address issues of growth, development, safety, tourism, and policy. DBA also provides parking discounts to member companies and networks business leaders to discuss and solve local issues

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 98% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 46
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 6.5%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.