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· Private foundation

Cordelia Lee Beattie Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$70k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Arts & Culture$522kEducation$70kPhilanthropy$20kHuman Services$8k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FLORIDA WEST COAST SYMPHONY INC$20,000
KEY CHORALE INC$10,000
FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC$10,000
SARASOTA BALLET OF FLORIDA INC$10,000
ICON PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC$10,000
ASOLO THEATRE INC$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ABILITY TO INCLUDE INC: $8k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$535k · 10 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
4

Total granted

$535k
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+25%

Still filing today

90%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationOther

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

  • FW
    Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra
    6× · 2019–2024 · $190k · revenue +274%
  • FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $60k · revenue +70%
  • SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $55k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • SO
    SARASOTA ORCHESTRA
    one grant, 2018 · $40k
  • AT
    ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • AT
    ABILITY TO INCLUDE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +25%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Sarasota Academy of the Arts Inc

The mission of sarasota academy of the arts (saa) is to provide a motivating, challenging, and creative learning climate with a safe, caring, family atmosphere. saa will provide students interested in visual and performing arts with…

Education
2
Florida Education and Arts Trust
Philanthropy
3
The Players Inc

The players theatre's mission is to entertain, educate, and engage the community in high quality live theatre.

Arts & Culture
4
Florida Classical Ballet Inc

Ballet instruction - students up to the age of 18

Arts & Culture
5
Ballet Academy of St Petersburg

The Ballet Academy of St. Petersburg is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization established to provide accessible, high-quality ballet and dance education to individuals of all ages and backgrounds. Its primary exempt purpose is to promote arts…

Arts & Culture
6
Creative Kids Srq
Arts & Culture
7
Sarasota School of Arts and Sciences Inc

To provide a small, intimate environment of academic excellence and enrichment, utilizing community partnerships and traditional and innovative teaching methods.

Education
8
The Fine Arts Society of Sarasota Inc

To provide educational displays and information on art in our area and to provide scholarships.

9
Sarasota Concert Association Inc

To present internationally renowed orchestras, chamber ensembles and solo artists to the greater sarasota community, and to showcase outstanding regional musicians in a series of free public concerts.

Arts & Culture
10
Florida Repertory Company Inc

Florida rep is committed to providing a first-class regional theatre for southwest florida; to creating, nurturing and developing an ensemble of theatre professionals who will develop long term relationships working on a wide variety of…

Arts & Culture
11
Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida Inc

A charitable ballet company producing professional ballet performances for the public, Arts Ballet Theatre provides accessibility, community involvement & education & training for professional and pre-professional dancers. It also provides…

Arts & Culture
12
The Sarasota Cuban Ballet School Inc

The mission of the sarasota cuban ballet is to celebrate and sustain the cultural legacy of the cuban ballet tradition, sharing its uniqueness through performance, education, and community outreach.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sarasota Performing Arts Center Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ability to Include 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra — $190,000 · Arts & CultureFlorida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota OrchestraFLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC — $60,000 · Arts & CultureFLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INCSarasota Ballet of Florida Inc — $46,640 · Arts & CultureSarasota Ballet of Florida IncASOLO THEATRE INC — $45,000 · Arts & CultureASOLO THEATRE INCSUNCOAST BLACK ARTS COLLABORATIVE — $15,000 · Arts & CultureSARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 · OtherSARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDAT…KEY CHORALE INC — $53,000 · OtherKEY CHORALE INCSARASOTA ORCHESTRA — $40,000 · OtherSARASOTA ORCHESTRASTATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDA — $30,000 · OtherSTATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDAICON PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $20,000 · OtherICON PREPARATORY SCHOOL INCACCESS TO THE ARTS INC — $10,000 · OtherWESTCOAST BLACK THEATER TROUPE — $7,500 · OtherTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyThe State College of Florida Foundation Inc — $20,000 · EducationABILITY TO INCLUDE INC — $8,360 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$356,640Other$215,500Philanthropy$20,000Education$20,000Human Services$8,360

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFlorida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra — $190,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC — $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetKEY CHORALE INC — $53,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetSarasota Ballet of Florida Inc — $46,640 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetASOLO THEATRE INC — $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetICON PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe State College of Florida Foundation Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSUNCOAST BLACK ARTS COLLABORATIVE — $15,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetABILITY TO INCLUDE INC — $8,360 over 1y, 5.5% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Woman's Exchange Inc of Sarasota · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Cordelia Lee Beattie 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Icon Preparatory School Inc22% of income from government
  • Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra0% of income from government
  • Florida Studio Theatre Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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