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Bradenton Rotary Foundation at a glance

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Bradenton Rotary Foundation

To raise money to support other exempt organizations in the community.

$92k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$109kEducation$52kInternational$50kYouth Development$47kHuman Services$40kRecreation & Sports$31kArts & Culture$17kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $53,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $92,090 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $39,090 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COMMUNITY HAVEN FOR ADULTS AND CHILDRENS WITH DISABILITIES INC: $5k → 9%COMMUNITY HAVEN FOR ADULTS AND CHILDRENS WITH DISABILITIES INC: $5k → 9%SISTER SCHOOLS PROGRAM: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$251k · 9 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$251k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+1%

Still filing today

78%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCrime & LegalHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MO
    MEALS OF HOPE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $104k · revenue +207%
  • BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MANATEE COUNTYINC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +3%
  • VM
    VISIBLE MEN ACADEMY INC
    2× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • BM
    BISHOP MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND NATURE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +71%
  • TA
    THE ART LEAGUE OF MANATEE COUNTY D/B/A ARTCENTER MANATEE
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue 0%
  • FF
    Foundation for Dreams Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +141%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Literacy Council of Manatee County

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.

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2
The Sunshine Academy & Daycare Corp

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.

Education
3
Pathways Early Education Center of Immokalee Inc

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.

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4
The Exchange Club of Vero Beach Scholars
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5
Manatee Educational Television Consortium Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Take Stock in Children of Manatee County Inc

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…

Philanthropy
7
Dreamers Academy Inc

Dreamers academy develops bilingual, biliterate, and cross-cultural leaders of character within a caring environment that encourages family engagement and celebrates america.

Youth Development
8
Mangrove School of Sarasota Inc

Mangrove School of Sarasota offers developmentally appropriate education to all children in the community.

Education
9
Space Coast Discovery Inc

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…

Health
10
The Foundation for the Boys & Girls Clubs Inc

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).

Youth Development
11
Feeding Dreams Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
12
Academie Da Vinci Charter School Inc

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

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Art League of Manatee County D/B/a Artcenter Manatee; 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.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEALS OF HOPE INC: $103,865 · Food & NutritionMEALS OF HOPE INCTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $49,962 · InternationalTHE ROTARY FOUN…VISIBLE MEN ACADEMY INC: $22,000 · EducationVISIBLE MEN AC…PROJECT LIGHT OF MANATEE INC: $15,000 · EducationPROJECT LIGHT …EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF MANATEE COUNTY INC: $10,000 · EducationEARLY LEARNING…THE SALVATION ARMY: $15,389 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYTHE SALVATION ARMY RESIDENCE INC: $10,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY RESI…UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $7,550 · OtherUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER…THE ART LEAGUE OF MANATEE COUNTY D/B/A ARTCENTER MANATEE: $6,000 · OtherTHE ART LEAGUE OF MANAT…OUR DAILY BREAD OF BRADENTON INC: $5,000 · OtherOUR DAILY BREAD OF BRAD…Community Haven For Adults And Children With Disabilities Inc: $10,000 · OtherCommunity Haven For Adu…ESCUELAS HERMANAS INC: $5,000 · OtherESCUELAS HERMANAS INCBISHOP MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND NATURE INC: $10,500 · OtherBISHOP MUSEUM OF SCIENC…Foundation for Dreams Inc: $5,000 · OtherFoundation for Dreams I…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MANATEE COUNTYINC: $29,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS…Truly Valued Inc: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTruly Valued…ROTARYS SUNCOAST PLAYGROUND PROJECTS INC: $31,150 · Recreation & SportsROTARYS S…EXCHANGE CLUB FAMILY PARTNERSHIP CENTER OF MANATEE: $15,000 · Crime & Legal
Food & Nutrition$103,865International$49,962Education$47,000Other$74,439Youth Development$39,000Recreation & Sports$31,150Crime & Legal$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEALS OF HOPE INC: $103,865 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $49,962 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MANATEE COUNTYINC: $29,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVISIBLE MEN ACADEMY INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPROJECT LIGHT OF MANATEE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetEXCHANGE CLUB FAMILY PARTNERSHIP CENTER OF MANATEE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBISHOP MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND NATURE INC: $10,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTruly Valued Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetEARLY LEARNING COALITION OF MANATEE COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Haven For Adults And Children With Disabilities Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY RESIDENCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ART LEAGUE OF MANATEE COUNTY D/B/A ARTCENTER MANATEE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFoundation for Dreams Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetESCUELAS HERMANAS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…William G and Marie S…Manatee Community Fou…Publix Super Markets …The Mary Parker Found…Center for Faith and …The Louis and Gloria …Msc Foundation IncUnited Way Suncoast I…Rotary Club of Lakewo…Charles & Margery Bar…Stillinger Arthur & E…
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL33.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bradenton Rotary Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bradenton Rotary Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Bishop Museum of Science and Nature Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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