Is it real?
Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2024. IRS ruling in Jul 1997.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File
Where the money goes
79 cents of each dollar spent went to programs.
Form 990 Part IX, line 25, columns B–D. Every line is in By the numbers.
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Who runs it and what they're paid
20 people listed on the 990; $998K paid to officers and key staff.
Nadine Smith’s $281K as CEO is at the 93rd percentile of top reported officer pay among 797 $1–10M civil rights & advocacy nonprofits. Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 8 named individuals · Part VII
| Name | FY2024 | FY2023 | FY2022 | FY2021 | FY2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nadine Smith | $280,715 | $297,381 | $276,433 | $253,516 | $155,724 |
| Stratton Pollitzer | $235,859 | $279,269 | $249,927 | $245,677 | $156,849 |
| Joseph Saunders | $108,742 | $15,886 | $89,889 | $82,954 | $40,168 |
| Jonathan Maurer | $94,586 | $87,712 | — | — | — |
| Nicholas Machuca | $94,295 | — | — | — | — |
| David Costa | $92,055 | $87,468 | — | — | — |
| Brittany Link-Hayes | $91,566 | $85,645 | — | — | — |
| Donald Walker | — | $85,752 | — | — | — |
Total reportable compensation (Form 990 Part VII column D / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.
See Equality Florida Institute INC executive salaries →Questions the 990 asks
The form asks each of these directly. These are the filed answers.
- Family or business ties among officersPt VI · Ln 2No
- Top official's pay set by an independent reviewPt VI · Ln 15aYes
Programs and updates
Advocates for LGBTQ+ equality in Florida through civil rights education, local community mobilization, school board activism, and statewide defense against discriminatory policies.
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Education
Safe & healthy schools:in 2024, safe and healthy schools (SHS) stood firm against escalating attacks on the systems of care that support young people. Despite political hostility, we refined and strengthened our model by more deeply linking education and mental health, building a scalable program that protected LGBTQ youth while setting…
Outreach
We are working with the movement advancement project (map), home to the "open to all" campaign, to deepen our collaboration with them and with yelp, a company that publishes a searchable database of local businesses along with crowd-sourced reviews.
Mobilization
Local level:- participated in 34 pride events from pensacola to key west, gathering 9,758 petitions, and recruiting 1,936 new VOLUNTEERS.- recruited 518 sign-ups, across 31 counties, for 115 school board meetings to speak out against book BANNING.STATE level: - prevented extensive book bans, championed for LGBTQ proclamations and guide…
Funders
Who pays for it.
From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.
Grants
By the numbers
The FY2024 990, line by line.
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| Line | FY24 | FY23 | FY22 | FY21 | FY20 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| End of yearLn 1g | $366K | $325K | $285K | $322K | $322K |
| SpentLn 1d–1f | $55K | $51K |
| Line | Start FY24 | End FY24 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash and savingsLn 1–2 | $4.0M | $1.4M |
| InvestmentsLn 11–13 | $5.1M | $6.8M |
| Land, buildings, equipmentLn 10c | $3K | $2K |
| Total assetsLn 16 | $9.7M | $8.8M |
| LiabilitiesLn 26 | $1.2M | $746K |
| Net assetsLn 32 | $8.5M | $8.1M |
| Line | Total | Programs | Management | Fundraising |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grants to domestic organizationsLn 1 | $443K | $443K | ||
| Pay of current officers, directors and key staffLn 5 | $536K | $482K | $54K | |
| Other salaries and wagesLn 7 | $2.7M | $2.5M | $186K | $10K |
| Pension plan contributionsLn 8 | $170K | $153K | $14K | $4K |
| Other employee benefitsLn 9 | $342K | $290K | $52K | |
| Payroll taxesLn 10 | $242K | $229K | $13K | $744 |
| Accounting feesLn 11c | $46K | $46K | ||
| Professional fundraising feesLn 11e | $78K | $78K | ||
| Investment management feesLn 11f | $20K | $20K | ||
| Other fees for servicesLn 11g | $684K | $304K | $123K | $256K |
| Advertising and promotionLn 12 | $149K | $85K | $375 | $63K |
| Office expensesLn 13 | $463K | $93K | $83K | $286K |
| Information technologyLn 14 | $56K | $51K | $4K | $1K |
| OccupancyLn 16 | $61K | $39K | $21K | $904 |
| TravelLn 17 | $307K | $202K | $92K | $14K |
| Conferences, conventions and meetingsLn 19 | $579K | $531K | $26K | $21K |
| Depreciation, depletion and amortizationLn 22 | $1K | $1K | ||
| InsuranceLn 23 | $9K | $9K | ||
| All other expensesLn 24e | $2K | $3K | −$611 | |
| Total functional expensesLn 25 | $6.9M | $5.4M | $742K | $735K |
Filing history
| Year | Money in | Money out | In minus out | Net assets | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 Latest ViewingFiled with the IRS Oct 14, 2025 | $6.3M | $6.9M | −$614K | $8.1M | 990 PDF |
| FY2023Filed with the IRS Nov 6, 2024 | $7.1M | $6.1M | $1.0M | $8.5M | 990 PDF |
| FY2022Filed with the IRS Aug 26, 2023 | $6.7M | $5.0M | $1.7M | $7.2M | 990 PDF |
| FY2021Filed with the IRS Nov 7, 2022 | $5.0M | $4.2M | $722K | $5.8M | 990 PDF |
| FY2020Filed with the IRS Oct 27, 2021 | $6.8M | $3.7M | $3.1M | $5.0M | 990 PDF |
Schedules filed Part IV
See the full FY2024 990 (6 parts)
Part I · Summary $6,273,479 revenue, 12 lines filed
Part VI · Governance 11 of 11 board members independent, no flags
Part VIII · Statement of revenue $6,273,479 across 8 lines filed
Part IX · Statement of functional expenses $6,887,406 across 19 lines filed
Part X · Balance sheet $8,815,892 assets, 17 lines filed
Part XI · Reconciliation of net assets $8,070,132 net assets at year end
Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2024 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File
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