· Public charity
Florida Winefest and Auction Inc
Florida winefest and auction exists to provide funding to qualified charitable organizations for programs assisting disadvantaged children, youth and families in sarasota and manatee counties.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $57,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $100,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $43,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS | $29,000 |
| LAUREL CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC | $21,500 |
| FEEDING EMPTY LITTLE TUMMIES | $6,500 |
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 (FY17–23, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 16 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
- LCLAUREL CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $181k · revenue +28%
MOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $168k · revenue +384%
TEEN COURT OF SARASOTA INC4× · 2017–2023 · $37k · revenue +210%
Funded once
- HTHealthy Teens Incone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -31%
- ASALL STAR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +26%
- TSTAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN OF MANATEE COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +57%
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.
Preventing child abuse, restoring healing, and strengthening all children and their families through advocacy, treatment, and shelter.
The safe children coalition's mission is to protect children and youth, strengthen families, and build community.
The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…
Legal representation of children.
Pathways Early Education Center of Immokalee closes the opportunity gap by providing individualized, high-quality cognitive, social, emotional and physical education to children from birth to 5 years.
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We inspire well-being & success in the lives of vulnerable children, youth & families through responsive quality programs and safe places. part iii - additional information family counseling parents and youth ages 6-17 can receive…
We unite people and resources across the Florida Keys to ensure familiesdespite geographic and transportation barriershave access to coordinated care, maternal and mental health support, education, and services that promote healthy…
To provide homes for disadvantaged children.
To provide essential items to children and families with open child welfare cases so they will know they have the support of a loving, caring community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is All Star Children's Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Healthy Teens Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 26 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 LAUREL CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds TEEN COURT OF SARASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds MANATEE COUNTY GIRLS CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Coalition on Homelessness dba Turning Points ↗
- Who funds Community Haven For Adults And Children With Disabilities Inc ↗
- Who funds Feeding Empty Little Tummies Inc ↗
- Who funds New College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SELAH FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF MANATEE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TINY HANDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Healthy Teens Inc ↗
- Who funds Children First Inc ↗
- Who funds ALL STAR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TSIC OF SARASOTA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN OF MANATEE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Dreams Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY START COALITION OF SARASOTA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSING BAGS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds EXCHANGE CLUB FAMILY PARTNERSHIP CENTER OF MANATEE ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Manatee Assoc for Riding Therapy Inc ↗
- Who funds The Police Athletic League of Manatee County Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF SARASOTA-MANATEE 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 · Msc Foundation Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · The Tillie Jennie & Harold Schwartz Foundation Inc · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Sisterhood For Good Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Center for Faith and Freedom Inc · United Way Suncoast Inc · Boscia Family 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 Florida Winefest and Auction Inc 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.
- Children First Inc — 100% of income from government
- Selah Freedom Inc — 53% of income from government
- Hope Family Services Inc — 40% of income from government
- Teen Court of Sarasota 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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