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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.

$100k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$29k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$327kPublic Benefit$181kYouth Development$77kEducation$41kHousing & Shelter$31kFood & Nutrition$21kInternational$14kHealth$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $57,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $100,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $43,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $51k
$21,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$191k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS$29,000
LAUREL CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC$21,500
FEEDING EMPTY LITTLE TUMMIES$6,500
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%COMMUNITY HAVEN FOR ADULTS & CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES INC: $9k → 9%COMMUNITY HAVEN FOR ADULTS & CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES INC: $9k → 9%COMMUNITY HAVEN FOR ADULTS & CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES INC: $7k → 9%THE HAVEN: $4k → 9%SELAH FREEDOM: $8k → 9%SELAH FREEDOM: $6k → 9%SELAH FREEDOM: $6k → 9%THE BLESSINGS BAG PROJECT: $2k → 10%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$678k · 19 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
7

Total granted

$678k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+26%

Still filing today

95%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • LC
    LAUREL CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $181k · revenue +84%
  • MOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $168k · revenue +384%
  • TEEN COURT OF SARASOTA INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $37k · revenue +255%

Funded once

  • HT
    Healthy Teens Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -31%
  • AS
    ALL STAR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +26%
  • TS
    TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN OF MANATEE COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +57%
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
Manatee Children's Services Inc

Preventing child abuse, restoring healing, and strengthening all children and their families through advocacy, treatment, and shelter.

Crime & Legal
2
Safe Children Coalition Inc

The safe children coalition's mission is to protect children and youth, strengthen families, and build community.

Human Services
3
The Florida Center for Early Childhood Inc

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…

Human Services
4
Florida Childrens Rights Coalition

Legal representation of children.

Community Improvement
5
Pathways Early Education Center of Immokalee Inc

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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6
Cape Coral for the Children Inc
Youth Development
7
Hollys Hope of North Port
Education
8
Service Club of Manatee County

Service club supports children who reside in manatee county by raising and distributing funding for the benefit of those who are in need of food, shelter, clothing, health services, or educational services.

—
9
Family Resources Inc

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…

Human Services
10
Healthy Start Coalition of St Lucie County Inc

None

Health
11
Hands and Feet Inc

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.

Human Services
12
Central Florida Childrens Home

To provide homes for disadvantaged children.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teen Court of Sarasota Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
16/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAUREL CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC: $181,000 · OtherLAUREL CIVIC ASSOCIATION INCVOLUNTEER SERVICES OF MANATEE COUNTY INC: $92,500 · OtherVOLUNTEER SERVICES OF MANATEE COUNTY INC+9 more: $35,000 · Other+9 moreMOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS INC: $168,000 · Community ImprovementMOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS INCTEEN COURT OF SARASOTA INC: $37,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEEN COURT O…MANATEE COUNTY GIRLS CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $30,500 · Youth DevelopmentMANATEE COUN…Healthy Teens Inc: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentHealthy Teen…+1 more: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentCommunity Haven For Adults And Children With Disabilities Inc: $28,000 · Human ServicesSELAH FREEDOM INC: $18,500 · Human ServicesBLESSING BAGS PROJECT INC: $2,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesNew College Foundation Inc: $20,000 · EducationEARLY LEARNING COALITION OF MANATEE COUNTY INC: $18,000 · EducationChildren First Inc: $5,500 · EducationTSIC OF SARASOTA COUNTY INC: $3,500 · EducationCommunity Coalition on Homelessness dba Turning Points: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterFeeding Empty Little Tummies Inc: $20,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$308,500Community Improvement$168,000Youth Development$75,000Human Services$49,500Education$47,000Housing & Shelter$30,000Food & Nutrition$20,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLAUREL CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC: $181,000 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetMOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS INC: $168,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetTEEN COURT OF SARASOTA INC: $37,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetMANATEE COUNTY GIRLS CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $30,500 over 5y, 27% of budgetCommunity Coalition on Homelessness dba Turning Points: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Haven For Adults And Children With Disabilities Inc: $28,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFeeding Empty Little Tummies Inc: $20,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetNew College Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSELAH FREEDOM INC: $18,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEARLY LEARNING COALITION OF MANATEE COUNTY INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHope Family Services Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TINY HANDS FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetHealthy Teens Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetChildren First Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALL STAR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTSIC OF SARASOTA COUNTY INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHEALTHY START COALITION OF SARASOTA COUNTY INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN OF MANATEE COUNTY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFoundation for Dreams Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEXCHANGE CLUB FAMILY PARTNERSHIP CENTER OF MANATEE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLESSING BAGS PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSarasota Manatee Assoc for Riding Therapy Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Police Athletic League of Manatee County Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

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 Foundat…Msc Foundation IncManatee Community Fou…Gulf Coast Community …The Louis and Gloria …The Tillie Jennie & H…William G and Marie S…Sisterhood For Good I…Charles & Margery Bar…Center for Faith and …United Way Suncoast I…Boscia Family Foundat…
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL46.4× affinity21 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 · 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

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 Florida Winefest and Auction Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Florida Winefest and Auction Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 53%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Florida Winefest and Auction Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 26 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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