· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
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.
- 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
How this is measured
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