How to find out who owns an LLC or company in Florida
Florida is the easiest state in the country for this. The names are on the filing, the search is free, and it takes about a minute.
Short answer: Search the company on Sunbiz. Florida lists managers and authorized persons on most LLC filings and officers and directors on corporations, free, with no account required.
Why Florida is unusually generous
Most states will give you a registered agent and stop. Florida’s articles of organization name the managing members or managers directly, and the annual report refreshes them every year. That combination makes Florida records the most complete of any high-volume state.
How to search
- Go to Sunbiz, the Division of Corporations’ public search.
- Search by entity name, or by officer or registered agent name if you’re working backwards from a person.
- Open the record. Managers, authorized persons and officers are listed with addresses.
- Check the most recent annual report for the current version — the original filing can be years out of date.
The officer-name search is worth knowing about. It lets you find every Florida entity connected to one person, which few states allow.
When you hit a mail-forwarding address
Florida has a very high rate of bulk filing by agent services, and those records show a Tallahassee or Miami suite that dozens of unrelated companies share. If the address looks like that, you’ve found the filing service rather than the business — check the annual report, which often carries a real address once the company starts trading.
Frequently asked questions
Does Florida disclose LLC members?
Yes — managing members and managers are named on the articles of organization and refreshed on every annual report. Florida is among the most transparent states; see which states publish LLC member names for the full list.
How do I find out who owns a business in Florida for free?
Sunbiz is free with no account. Search the entity name and read the manager and officer lines on the record, or use the officer-name search to work backwards from a person.
Can I see new business filings in Florida as they happen?
Sunbiz shows individual records but has no usable “new this week” view. Tracking new Florida filings daily means pulling and diffing the registry, which is what a formation data feed does for you.
If you need this at scale
For every new Florida entity as it files, with managers parsed and agent-formed shells already removed, see Florida formation data.
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