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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.

$169k
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$343kReligion$124kHuman Services$111kCommunity Improvement$83kAnimals$71kFood & Nutrition$55kHealth$46kPublic Safety & Disaster$32kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k39 grants · $99k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $71k
$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
HOMER HISTORICAL SOCIETY$6,000
LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY$6,000
LAKESHORE MUSEUM CENTER$5,000
ST PAULS LUTHERAN FOUNDATION$5,000
FELINE FUND$5,000
CARING COLLECTIVE INC$3,500
SAFE PLACE AND RAPE CRISIS CENTER$3,000
WHITE LAKE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$3,000
HARVEST HOUSE$3,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $4k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOG: $3k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOG: $2k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOG: $2k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOG: $2k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOG: $2k → 10%DOGS INC: $2k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOG: $2k → 10%SAFE CHILDREN COALITION: $1k → 9%SAFE CHILDREN COALITION: $1k → 9%SAFE CHILDREN COALITION: $1k → 9%FORKS SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 14%SAFE CHILDREN COALITION: $1k → 9%SAFE CHILDREN COALITION: $1k → 9%SAFE CHILDREN COALITION: $1k → 9%HARVEST HOUSE: $5k → 9%HARVEST HOUSE: $3k → 9%HARVEST HOUSE: $3k → 9%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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$846k · 46 repeat orgs$116k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
18

Total granted

$846k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+71%

Still filing today

50%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • WI
    WSLR INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $72k · revenue +156%
  • PH
    PLYMOUTH HARBOR INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $64k · revenue +36%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    6× · 2019–2025 · $32k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY JACKSON COUNTY
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • K'
    KID 'N' STUFF CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • EO
    ELLING O EIDE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
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 City Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
2
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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3
Humane Society of Sarasota County Inc

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.

Animals
4
Friends of Sarasota County Parks Inc

To promote, enhance and maintain community support for sarasota county parks and public recreational lands through activities, fundraising and volunteer efforts.

Recreation & Sports
5
Sarasota Architectural Foundation Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Sarasota Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc

Advancement of and development of tourism and the service of the tourism industry within the county of sarasota, florida

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7
Sarasota Opera Association Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Sarasota Bay Watch Inc

To preserve and restore sarasota bay's ecosystem through education and citizen participation.

Environment
9
The Bay Park Conservancy Inc

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…

Community Improvement
10
South Florida Wildlife Center Inc

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,…

Animals
11
Architecture Sarasota Inc

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.

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Library Foundation for Sarasota County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 73 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
27/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLAYHOUSE FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $55,000 · OtherPLAYHOUSE FRIENDS FOUNDATIONTRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH NEW ERA: $52,500 · OtherTRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH NEW ERALAKESHORE MUSEUM CENTER: $50,600 · OtherLAKESHORE MUSEUM CENTERFRIENDS OF ALBIONS ANIMALS: $37,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF ALBIONS ANIMALSIndividual grant recipient: $36,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART: $35,000 · OtherMUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ARTALL FAITHS FOOD BANK SARASOTA: $33,000 · OtherWHITE LAKE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $24,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $23,500 · Other+45 more: $293,256 · Other+45 moreWSLR INC: $72,000 · Arts & CultureWSLR INCFRIENDS OF THE BOHM THEATRE: $20,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF TH…FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureFLORIDA STUDI…SARASOTA FILM SOCIETY INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureSARASOTA FILM…Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $3,000 · Arts & CulturePLYMOUTH HARBOR INC: $63,500 · HealthPLYMOUTH H…Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc: $23,000 · HealthSafe Place…ALBION HEALTH CARE ALLIANCE: $7,500 · HealthALBION HEA…ALBION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $83,000 · Community ImprovementAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $32,400 · Human ServicesSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesHARVEST HOUSE INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesSAFE CHILDREN COALITION INC: $6,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesILLINOIS MASONIC CHARITIES FUND: $12,500 · EducationLIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY INC: $10,000 · EducationTHE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC: $1,000 · EducationFLYERS RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND: $14,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$640,606Arts & Culture$127,500Health$94,000Community Improvement$83,000Human Services$65,400Education$23,500Public Safety & Disaster$14,000

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 budgetALBION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $83,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetWSLR INC: $72,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetPLYMOUTH HARBOR INC: $63,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $32,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc: $23,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE BOHM THEATRE: $20,500 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetFLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC: $20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetURBANITE THEATRE INC: $19,996 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $15,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFLYERS RIGHTS EDUCATION FUND: $14,000 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetILLINOIS MASONIC CHARITIES FUND: $12,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC: $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHARVEST HOUSE INC: $11,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetLIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSARASOTA FILM SOCIETY INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFELINE FUND: $6,250 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MI: $6,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSAFE CHILDREN COALITION INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSARASOTA AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetFlorida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST PAUL'S LUTHERAN FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetEVERYDAY BLESSINGS INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEELANAU CONSERVANCY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP LEELANAU AND KOHAHNA FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LEGACY TRAIL INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBig Waters Land Trust Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARASOTA SKI-A-REES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE FORKS SENIOR CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

  • 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 SARASOTA FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
  • Who funds FELINE FUND ↗

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 Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL31.8× 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 · 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

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 Delmar and Audria M Olson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Delmar and Audria M Olson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 73 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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