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Ehrhart Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $86k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Venice Theatre | $80,000 |
| Venice Institute for Performing Art | $25,000 |
| Sarasota Youth Sailing | $24,972 |
| Institute for Justice | $15,000 |
| American Battlefield Trust | $11,000 |
| Vence Main Street | $10,000 |
| Alachua County Library District Fou | $8,000 |
| Sail Sarasota | $6,000 |
| Planned Parenthood | $5,000 |
| Venice Heritage Inc | $5,000 |
| Venice Art Center | $5,000 |
| College of Charleston | $5,000 |
| Betty J Johnson N Sarasota Library | $5,000 |
| Northeast Harbor Sailing School | $5,000 |
| Visible Men Academy | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of your 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.
27 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- VTVENICE THEATRE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $292k · revenue +91%
- SYSARASOTA YOUTH SAILING INC6× · 2019–2024 · $157k · revenue +45% · 25% of their budget
- IFINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE6× · 2019–2024 · $86k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- MDMount Desert Island Community Sailione grant, 2022 · $6k
- FAFish and Wildlife Foundation of Floone grant, 2023 · $5k
- RHRIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $4k
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.
Solicit contributions from club members and non members by various activities which will be distributed to 501(c)(3) charities in sarasota county.
A. to encourage the proper use and enjoyment of yachts and boats and to assist in educating members in the science of navigation, boat design, and the skills of sailing.b. to own and operate an appropriate private waterfront club in the…
The venice heritage foundation is dedicated to preserving, showcasing, and nurturing venice's diverse cultural heritage and history.
The world-class, award winning sarasota yacht club is home to a diverse membership and professional staff who inspire lifelong friendships and extraordinary experiences in our culturally-rich waterfront city.
Wildlife & Habitat Conservation
Teach beginning sailing, provide continuing education in sailing techniques, stress sportsmanship, seamanship and water safety to reduce boating accidents and increase enjoyment of boating.
The Florida Aquarium's mission focuses on our Shared Purpose of a commitment to save marine wildlife, with a Vision to be Florida's leading conservation-based Aquarium. It accomplishes this mission through hosting over 1 million visitors…
To preserve america's everglades and florida bay as natural resources.
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.
The mission of the Sarasota Orchestra is to engage, educate and enrich our community through high quality live musical experiences. Sarasota Orchestra is committed to engaging our community with the highest standards in performing and…
To promote commerce in the venice / nokomis area
The vero beach museum of art foundation is committed to managing endowments and extending the reach and sustaining the work of the vero beach museum of art, the supported organization, by securing both current and future financial…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Venice Symphony Inc and the most unlike its peers is Willowind Therapeutic Riding Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 33 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 VENICE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA YOUTH SAILING INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds VENICE MAINSTREET INC ↗
- Who funds ALACHUA COUNTY LIBRARY DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VENICE HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds American Battlefield Trust ↗
- Who funds VENICE ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds NRA SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION FUND ↗
- Who funds SAIL SARASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST HARBOR SAILING SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Venice Chorale Inc ↗
- Who funds VISIBLE MEN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC ↗
- Who funds HANDWEAVERS GUILD OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds FISH & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA I ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Venice Public Library Inc ↗
- Who funds THE VENICE SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds Willowind Therapeutic Riding Center Inc ↗
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 · The Community Foundation Trust of Sarasota County · The Edmund B and Elizabeth M Campbell Foundation Inc · The Prior Family Charitable Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Ehrhart 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.
- Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc — 6% of income from government
- Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I — 1% of income from government
- The Venice Symphony Inc — 0% of income from government
- Venice 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.
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