· Public charity
Bradenton Rotary Foundation
To raise money to support other exempt organizations in the community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $53,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $92,090 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $39,090 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Meals of Hope | $13,450 |
| Visible Men Academy | $12,000 |
| Early Learning Coalition | $10,000 |
| Salvation Army | $10,000 |
| Youth At Risk Community Center | $7,550 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those 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 +43% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- MOMEALS OF HOPE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $104k · revenue +131%
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MANATEE COUNTYINC3× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +3%- VMVISIBLE MEN ACADEMY INC2× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- BMBISHOP MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND NATURE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +71%
- TATHE ART LEAGUE OF MANATEE COUNTY D/B/A ARTCENTER MANATEEone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue 0%
- FFFoundation for Dreams Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +141%
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.
Adult Education Program-Teach any adult the english language or to improve their current english communication skills; increase public awareness of the problems of literacy in todays society.
The mission of the sunshine academy and daycare corp. is to partner with manatee county and parents to provide a biblically based academic environment where children can grow intellectually, phsically, socially and spiritually.
Pathways Early Education Center of Immokalee closes the opportunity gap by providing individualized, high-quality cognitive, social, emotional and physical education to children from birth to 5 years.
Metv provides programming focused on education, enrichment, community interest and cultural information that are of great benefit to the citizens of manatee county, florida. metv works closely with community organizations to produce…
The organization focuses on providing unique college mentoring and scholarship opportunities for low-income and at-risk students to help them end the cylce of poverty through education. students are offered college scholarships and caring…
Dreamers academy develops bilingual, biliterate, and cross-cultural leaders of character within a caring environment that encourages family engagement and celebrates america.
Mangrove School of Sarasota offers developmentally appropriate education to all children in the community.
At Space Coast Discovery, we believe that every child, of every ability deserves individualized instruction and benefits from inclusive classroom environments. (continued on Sched O)Our unique inclusion program provides equal learning…
To provide funds to support the programs, services and capital needs of the boys and girls clubs of manatee county,fl (a 501(c)(3) organization).
The mission of Feeding Dreams to combat childhood hunger and malnutrition that affect one in five children in Florida. Through grants, fundraising efforts, and school partnerships, we delivered 2.5 million highly nutritious meals to…
The mission of Académie Da Vinci is to develop in students a passion for learning, high achievement, and community engagement through an integrated arts, sciences, and technology curriculum
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Art League of Manatee County D/B/a Artcenter Manatee and the most unlike its peers is Rotarys Suncoast Playground Projects Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 18 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 MEALS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ROTARYS SUNCOAST PLAYGROUND PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MANATEE COUNTYINC ↗
- Who funds VISIBLE MEN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LIGHT OF MANATEE INC ↗
- Who funds EXCHANGE CLUB FAMILY PARTNERSHIP CENTER OF MANATEE ↗
- Who funds BISHOP MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND NATURE INC ↗
- Who funds Truly Valued Inc ↗
- Who funds EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF MANATEE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Community Haven For Adults And Children With Disabilities Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY RESIDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ART LEAGUE OF MANATEE COUNTY D/B/A ARTCENTER MANATEE ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Dreams Inc ↗
- Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD OF BRADENTON INC ↗
- Who funds ESCUELAS HERMANAS 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 · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Mary Parker Foundation 157823-000 · Center for Faith and Freedom Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · Msc Foundation Inc · United Way Suncoast Inc · Rotary Club of Lakewood Ranch · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Stillinger Arthur & Emma Tuw
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 Bradenton Rotary Foundation 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.
- Bishop Museum of Science and Nature Inc — 2% of income from government
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.