Florida Community Innovation Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
853417777
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Indn Hbr Bch, FL, USA
Rating
65
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Management & Technical Assistance

Reported finances

Revenue
$30,122
Expenses
$32,243
Assets
$1,164

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Caroline Nickerson (Executive Director)
  • Nicole Dan (President)
  • Zach Stanford (Vice-President)

People named in this filing

  • Caroline Nickerson (Executive Director)
  • Nicole Dan (President)
  • Zach Stanford (Vice-President)

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

FCI conducts groundbreaking work connecting Floridas citizens with trusted information and resources. We do this by building innovative human-centered technology and conducting persuasive public education campaigns. FCI exists to empower young innovators to build scalable social services technology for their communities. We are a network of young professional volunteers who envision a Florida where everyone has equal access to trusted information critical services and rewarding careers.

What it reported doing in 2025

Program Service 1: Florida Community Resource Map and Civic Technology Infrastructure. FCI advanced the Florida Community Resource Map its primary civic technology project. Program Service 2: Student-Led Research Civic Tech Education and University Partnerships. FCI guided students and volunteers in civic technology public interest research and community-centered design. FCI collaborated with students and researchers from various universities. Program Service 3: Community Programs Public Education and Place-Based Innovation. FCI promoted community education and public benefit initiatives like Recyclepedia GoBituary EMERGE and more. FCIs program services included technology development student and volunteer coordination presentations meetings educational materials outreach event costs and travel.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 58
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 59%; rating input score 59
  • Program expense ratio: 55.1%; rating input score 55

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -7%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -45.4% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 33.4% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 59% of revenue deployed · 55.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $18K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 55/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.