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Cordelia Lee Beattie Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Cordelia Lee Beattie Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$110k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$522kEducation$70kPhilanthropy$20kHuman Services$8k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FLORIDA WEST COAST SYMPHONY INC$20,000
ASOLO REPERTORY THEATRE$20,000
SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$10,000
ICON PREPARATORY SCHOOL$10,000
STATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC$10,000
FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC$10,000
SARASOTA BALLET OF FLORIDA INC$10,000
KEY CHORALE INC$10,000
SUNCOAST BLACK ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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. Its 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
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$635k · 10 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
4

Total granted

$635k
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+25%

Still filing today

90%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • FW
    Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra
    7× · 2019–2025 · $210k · revenue +274%
  • FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $70k · revenue +70%
  • AT
    ASOLO THEATRE INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $65k · revenue +13%

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%
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
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.

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9
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
10
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
11
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
12
South Florida Symphony Orchestra Inc

The orchestra is dedicated to bringing orchestral music of the highest caliber to south florida. its mission is to delight, inspire and educate the communities we serve through music.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sarasota Performing Arts Center Foundation Inc; 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 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. 12 of the 16 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra: $210,000 · Arts & CultureFlorida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota OrchestraFLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC: $70,000 · Arts & CultureFLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INCASOLO THEATRE INC: $65,000 · Arts & CultureASOLO THEATRE INCSarasota Ballet of Florida Inc: $56,640 · Arts & CultureSarasota Ballet of Florida IncSUNCOAST BLACK ARTS COLLABORATIVE: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSUNCOAST BLACK ARTS COLLABORATIVEKEY CHORALE INC: $63,000 · OtherKEY CHORALE INCSARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · OtherSARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDA…SARASOTA ORCHESTRA: $40,000 · OtherSARASOTA ORCHESTRAICON PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $30,000 · OtherICON PREPARATORY SCHOOL INCSTATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDA: $30,000 · OtherSTATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDASARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $10,000 · OtherACCESS TO THE ARTS INC: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $7,500 · OtherThe State College of Florida Foundation Inc: $30,000 · EducationTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyABILITY TO INCLUDE INC: $8,360 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$426,640Other$245,500Education$30,000Philanthropy$20,000Human Services$8,360

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFlorida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra: $210,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetASOLO THEATRE INC: $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKEY CHORALE INC: $63,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetSarasota Ballet of Florida Inc: $56,640 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetICON PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe State College of Florida Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUNCOAST BLACK ARTS COLLABORATIVE: $25,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABILITY TO INCLUDE INC: $8,360 over 1y, 5.5% 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…Gulf Coast Community …Woman's Exchange Inc …Suncoast Credit Union…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Cordelia Lee Beattie Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cordelia Lee Beattie Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Icon Preparatory School Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra: 0% of income from government
  • Florida Studio Theatre Inc: 0% 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, 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 16 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-PF 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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