· Private foundation
Delmar and Audria M Olson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH NEW ERA | $35,000 |
| THE PLYMOUTH HARBOR FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| WSLR INC | $12,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE PLAYHOUSE | $11,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ALBIONS ANIMALS | $7,500 |
| ALBION HEALTHCARE ALLIANCE | $7,500 |
| LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY | $6,000 |
| HOMER HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| FELINE FUND | $5,000 |
| LAKESHORE MUSEUM CENTER | $5,000 |
| ST PAULS LUTHERAN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CARING COLLECTIVE INC | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| WHITE LAKE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $3,000 |
| HARVEST HOUSE | $3,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
46 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 7 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- WIWSLR INC7× · 2019–2025 · $72k · revenue +156%
- PHPLYMOUTH HARBOR INC7× · 2019–2025 · $64k · revenue +36%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches6× · 2019–2025 · $32k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY JACKSON COUNTYone grant, 2021 · $15k
- K'KID 'N' STUFF CHILDREN'S MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $15k
- EOELLING O EIDE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $6k
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.
To provide educational displays and information on art in our area and to provide scholarships.
As the areas premier no-kill shelter, the humane society of sarasota county engages the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals.
To promote, enhance and maintain community support for sarasota county parks and public recreational lands through activities, fundraising and volunteer efforts.
To promote awareness and the preservation of buildings from the sarasota school of architecture movement, 1941-1966, and to demonstrate the relevance of the era to the contemporary built environment.
Advancement of and development of tourism and the service of the tourism industry within the county of sarasota, florida
Sarasota Opera produces impassioned opera performances true to the vision of the composer, to entertain, enrich, educate, and inspire a life-long love of opera in our diverse and growing communities.
To preserve and restore sarasota bay's ecosystem through education and citizen participation.
The bay park conservancy (bpc) was formed to implement the master plan approved by the sarasota city commission to conserve 53 acres of public land for a signature park along sarasota bay. the bpc entered a long-term partnership with the…
The south florida wildlife centers mission is protecting wildlife through rescue, rehabilitation, release, and education. the sfwc has been the trusted resource for wildlife in the tri-county region of miami-dade, broward, and palm beach,…
Architecture sarasota stewards the legacy of the sarasota school of architecture and provides a forum for the education, advocacy and celebration of good design in the global build environment.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Library Foundation for Sarasota County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Feline Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 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. 36 of the 73 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 ALBION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WSLR INC ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BOHM THEATRE ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds URBANITE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds FLYERS RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS MASONIC CHARITIES FUND ↗
- Who funds SENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ALBION HEALTH CARE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FELINE FUND ↗
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 · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · Norman E Peterson and Diana Lager Peterson Educational Fund Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · Mildred and Bernard Doyle Charitable Trust · The Roskamp Foundation Irrevocable Trust · Roberta Leventhal Sudakoff Foundation Inc · Lewis Foundation · The Arthur S Karp Family Foundation Inc
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 Delmar and Audria M Olson Family 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.
- Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — 23% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Safe Children Coalition Inc — 0% of income from government
- Harvest House Inc — 0% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Everyday Blessings Inc — 0% 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
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.