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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by THE AIDS INSTITUTE INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,856,203
Total expenses
$2,145,942
Contributions and grants received
$1,856,203
Grants paid
$125,000
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$1,172,959
Total liabilities, end of year
$652,188
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$520,771
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$2,008,896
Management and general expenses
$137,046
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$2,008,896

Program services were 93.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $531,040

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $1,325,163

  • 11d · All other revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $125,000 · program services $125,000

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $209,000 · program services $209,000 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $1,253,868 · program services $1,158,211 · management and general $95,657 · fundraising $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $192,266 · program services $176,918 · management and general $15,348 · fundraising $0

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $66,658 · program services $57,474 · management and general $9,184 · fundraising $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $35,145 · program services $27,382 · management and general $7,763 · fundraising $0

  • 17 · Travel

    total $95,401 · program services $94,808 · management and general $593 · fundraising $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $133,703 · program services $127,313 · management and general $6,390 · fundraising $0

  • 24a · Other expenses: Bank Fees

    total $2,882 · program services $771 · management and general $2,111 · fundraising $0

  • 24b · Other expenses: Program Support

    total $32,019 · program services $32,019 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $719,283 · end of year $924,680

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $250,000 · end of year $231,192

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $86,227

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $8,593 · end of year $10,149

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $51,623

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $51,623

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $28,029 · end of year $6,938

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $45,188 · end of year $35,900

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $204,167 · end of year $607,976

  • 24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable

    beginning of year $32,267 · end of year $8,312

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $810,510 · end of year $520,771

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

The mission of The AIDS Institute is to promote action for social change through public policy, research, advocacy, and education.

  • The AIDS Institutes (TAI) began as a grassroots community mobilization and advocacy effort in Florida in 1985. In 1992, this advocacy network became incorporated as a Florida 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Its mission is to promote action for social change through public policy, research, advocacy, and education. As TAI evolved into a highly respected national organization over the years, it maintains its roots in Florida as the only statewide policy and planning organization dedicated to HIV/AIDS. Over the years, TAI has expanded its vision and scope to include policy offices in Washington, DC, and Tallahassee, Florida. TAIs administrative and program office is located in Tampa. The Tampa office is situated at the University of South Florida, College of Medicine. The breadth of TAIs programs includes: federal policy research, analysis, and advocacy; capacity building and technical assistance; public health research and analysis; education and training; HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis community planning and research; Florida statewide policy and advocacy programs; customized convening and communications. Some TAI specific programs include AIDS Alliance for Women, Infants, Children, Youth, and Families; Aging; and Florida HIV/AIDS Advocacy Network (FHAAN). Other programs include a micro-grant program Women Informing Now (WIN) and Center for Patient Advocate Leaders (CPALS). This expanded vision and scope of TAI effectively address the many aspects of HIV, hepatitis, and other chronic diseases- related issues. TAIs state and federal policy for HIV, viral hepatitis, STDs and health care access is the core of its portfolio. TAI uses the social determinants of health to help guide other issues and work on them as it relates to barriers and access to prevention, care, and treatment. We impact social change through improved policies, legislation, and resource allocation through our work with the state officials, the administration, executive agencies, congress, media, and national/community partners. These activities often impact the entire country. While the focus of TAIs mission is HIV/AIDS and viral hepatitis, its goal is to prevent new infections for all those at risk, which are often at risk for other STIs.

    Expenses $1,199,282 · Grants $125,000

  • Florida Comprehensive Planning Network - The AIDS Institute coordinates and supports meeting logistics for the statewide Florida Comprehensive Planning Network (FCPN). HIV community planning is an ongoing, comprehensive planning process intended to help assure that resources, particularly federal HIV prevention and care resources, target populations living with or at risk for HIV infections. The FCPN is a community-based HIV prevention and patient care planning body that collaborates with the Department to develop a comprehensive statewide HIV prevention and care plan. In 2023, TAI added the Florida Viral Hepatitis Network (FVHN) to the activities which includes an annual face-to-face meeting. The purpose of this contract is for The AIDS Institute to assist the Department supporting the Florida Comprehensive Planning Network (FCPN), committees, and statewide workgroups with the coordination and planning of activities that impact persons living with HIV within the state of Florida. For 2023, there were three active workgroups as part of TAIs work with the Florida Department health contract. The workgroups include the Community HIV Advisory Group (CHAG), Florida Gay Mens Workgroup (FGMW), and the HIV Medication Formulary Workgroup (HSMFW), and the MSM Vaccine Group. TAI facilitated an additional meeting above our two planned regular FCPN meetings. The Florida HIV/AIDS Comprehensive Planning Network (FCPN) was a hybrid in-person/virtual formal with nearly 140 FCPN members, Department of Health staff, and community guests participating. The focus of the meeting was to develop further the Florida Statewide Integrated HIV Prevention and Care Plan CY 2022-2026 (Integrated Plan). The AIDS Institute also provided support for the Florida Comprehensive Planning Network (FCPN) to the following FCPN committees: Membership, Nominations, and Bylaws Committee, Coordination of Efforts Committee, Medication Access Committee, Needs Assessment Committee, and Executive Co-Chairs Committee. Additionally, TAI provides support for the Florida Viral Hepatitis Network (FVHN). Services performed by The AIDS Institute for this program include: administrative support services to FCPN, Committees, and Statewide Workgroups. Other services included but were not limited to: preparation, planning, and logistics for convening meetings; as well as related activities, conference calls, community training and education; communication; technical assistance; and records management. In addition, TAI coordinated communication such as scheduling, promoting, inviting, sending participation notices, and agendas, record management of meetings and conference calls for workgroups, planning, and advisory groups, and recording and distributing summaries of FCPN, and FCPN-related committees, and workgroup meetings.

    Expenses $417,677

  • The AIDS Institutes (TAI) education programs are expansive in scope and impact. As part of TAIs Florida Consortium for HIV/AIDS Research (FCHAR) program. TAI staff planned and facilitated the 2023 Florida Community Providers and Researchers (Florida CPR). The conference sponsors were TAIs FCHAR and the Southern HIV & Alcohol Research Consortium (SHARC), brought together community members, providers, and researchers to network with colleagues and peers, learn about ongoing and current research initiatives throughout the state, and create synergy amongst the attendees for potential future collaborative research projects. This unique event brought community stakeholders, healthcare providers, and researchers to the same room to cross-share information that might not otherwise be heard, promoting inclusion of community and providers perspectives into the research community. Another component of TAIs education and advocacy programs is the Patient Advocacy Leaders (PALS) Initiative and Center for Patient Advocacy Leaders (CPALs). PALS has been a trusted and respected series of patient advocacy meetings considered to be best-in-class. It was designed to connect diverse health advocacy leaders to improve their advocacy capacity and identify ways to collaborate and unify the voices of many. The Center (CPALs) was launched upon fundamental principles, practices, and values of PALS; the staff has been better able to harness and more broadly utilize the resources, learnings, and the collective advocacy actions of health leaders and their grassroots organizations from all across the country. This has ultimately led to amplifying the patient voice loud and making advocacy efforts more effective. The Advocate Advisor network (an expansion of our former PALS Advisory Board) is crucial to enabling our well-established advocate-centered model, By Advocates, For Advocates, which focuses on the needs of patients and caregivers, health advocacy leaders, their organizations, and the diverse communities they serve. In addition to establishing CPALs and expanding the pool of advisors, TAI also introduced a program called Patient Advocacy Leaders United (PALs United). PALs United programs are designed to focus on a single therapeutic area or population instead of cross-therapeutic/general healthcare programs like National PALs. Working in this more focused way allows for a deeper dive into the therapeutic area or populations issues, with a better chance for identifying and pursuing meaningful action. Another of TAIs programs is Women Informing Now (WIN) Micro-Grant Program. It was established to provide micro-grant funds to activate individuals and organizations leading grassroots HIV outreach projects that innovatively reach cis and/or transgender women to break down isolation and stigma via the prevention, education, and engagement regarding HIV and sexual health. TAIs capacity building & technical assistance, patient advocacy training & support, women & children programs, faith initiatives, public policy & health policy analysis, community and provider education, training & skills building, HIV/AIDS & hepatitis community planning, HIV/AIDS & hepatitis research, communications, convening, conference planning & meeting coordination, and a highly acclaimed intern and fellowship program are just some of the successful programs. This expanded vision and scope of TAI, effectively addresses the many aspects of HIV/AIDS and other chronic disease-related issues. Part of TAIs work included planning, coordinating, and facilitation of all-digital webinars, virtual meetings, and small and large-scale face-to-face meetings and conferences.

    Expenses $391,937

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Dalen Michael Green

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Mark Ogunsuri

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Cindy Snyder

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Susan Tusher

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Peter Ralin

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Maximillion Wilson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Robert Renzi

    President & Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75
  • Sarah Alexander

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75
  • Jonathon Berliner

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.75
  • Michael Ruppal

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $225,552
    From this org
    $209,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,552
    Hours/week
    55

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $209,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,225
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,327
    Filer's total
    $225,552
  • Ivy Turnbull

    Compensated Employee

    Total calculated
    $135,520
    From this org
    $132,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,520
    Hours/week
    40
  • Rachel Klein

    Compensated Employee

    Total calculated
    $192,287
    From this org
    $174,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,287
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $174,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,960
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,327
    Filer's total
    $192,287
  • Stephanie Hengst

    Compensated Employee

    Total calculated
    $130,927
    From this org
    $115,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,927
    Hours/week
    40
  • Denise Ruppal

    Compensated Employee

    Total calculated
    $131,967
    From this org
    $116,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,967
    Hours/week
    40
  • Michelle Scavnicky

    Compensated Employee

    Total calculated
    $133,573
    From this org
    $113,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,573
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
12 September 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202432769349302053

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