· Public charity
American Legion No Vel
Service and help the people of venice and support military veterans active service men and women
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $16,676 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $52,522 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,846 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Operation Warrior Resolution | $8,500 |
| Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital | $8,176 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 20% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +172% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- OWOPERATION WARRIOR RESOLUTION3× · 2019–2023 · $12k · revenue +990%
- SCSOUTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC5× · 2017–2022 · $2k · revenue +172%
- VTVENICE TOUCHDOWN CLUB2× · 2018–2019 · $200 · revenue +125%
Funded once
- FSFIRST STEP INCORPORATEDone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +21% · 42% of their budget
- SCSTATE COLLEGE OF FLone grant, 2017 · $7k
- SCSTATE COLLEGE OF FL VETERANS GROUPone grant, 2018 · $7k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Solicit contributions from club members and non members by various activities which will be distributed to 501(c)(3) charities in sarasota county.
To deliver a warm nutritous noon time meal, daily except for sunday, to any person in the greater venice florida area unable to prepare a meal because of physical or mental disability, regardless of their income.
Veterans serving veterans.
Flights to Washington DC from Orlando FL transporting WWII, Korean War and Vietnam Veterans and their guardians to visit their memorials. Expenses covered include airfare, meals, bus transportation and incidentals.
To provide club facilities, sailing instruction, boat storage, launch access and ramps/hoists for approximately 1,088 family members.
501c 3 public organization for Veterans of Foreign Wars
To honor americas veterans by providing them with a free trip to washington dc to visit the memorials built to honor then for their sacrifice and service
Provide services, activities and funds for U.S. military veterans, children and the local community
Promote national and international competition and rowing, educate new rowers, and provide adaptive rowing opportunities for partially disabled persons and veterans.
Venice mainstreet is committed to preserving and enhancing a quality environment in downtown venice, fl for present and future generations through organized volunteer efforts by focusing on its historic character and economic vitality
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Coalition on Homelessness dba Turning Points and the most unlike its peers is Venice Challenger Baseball. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 83 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds OPERATION WARRIOR RESOLUTION ↗
- Who funds FIRST STEP INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ITNSARASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Community Coalition on Homelessness dba Turning Points ↗
- Who funds VENICE YACHT CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds VENICE LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST K-11 INC ↗
- Who funds HONOR FLIGHT OF WEST CENTRAL FL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · Msc Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization American Legion No Vel funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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