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Gaston Dufresne Foundation For The Performing Arts Inc at a glance

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Gaston Dufresne Foundation For The Performing Arts Inc

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.

$140k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$64k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Education$317kEnvironment$300kArts & Culture$124kPhilanthropy$30kHealth$1kPublic Benefit$1k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $114k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$789k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Florida State University Foundation$64,242
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc$50,000
Sarasota Orchestra$10,000
Sarasota Military Academy Foundatio$10,000
Holiday House SRQ Inc$5,000
James Madison Institute$1,000
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 (FY24–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Holiday House SRQ Inc: $5k → 9%Holiday House SRQ Inc: $5k → 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$724k · 7 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$724k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+133%

Still filing today

86%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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

  • The Florida State University Foundation Inc
    6× · 2017–2025 · $267k · revenue +177%
  • BS
    BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $20k · revenue +38%
  • HH
    HOLIDAY HOUSE SRQ INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +157%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Miami Law School
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • New College Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +200%
  • SF
    SMA Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
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 Academy of the Arts Inc

The mission of sarasota academy of the arts (saa) is to provide a motivating, challenging, and creative learning climate with a safe, caring, family atmosphere. saa will provide students interested in visual and performing arts with…

Education
2
Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc

To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…

Education
3
Florida College System Foundation

To secure and manage public and private resources to provide optimal benefit to florida's 28 colleges, thereby supporting students who are seeking a post-secondary education that will positively impact their lives and the future of their…

Education
4
Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Association Inc

We aspire to be the premier music organization serving our communities by providing quality, professional performances and educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture
5
Sarasota School of Arts and Sciences Inc

To provide a small, intimate environment of academic excellence and enrichment, utilizing community partnerships and traditional and innovative teaching methods.

Education
6
Florida Education and Arts Trust
Philanthropy
7
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
8
Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Education Foundation of Palm Beach County Inc

The foundation is the nexus of palm beach county's public schools, the private sector, and the community. it facilitates student achievement by supporting high quality public education through partnership, grants, events and public…

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10
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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11
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
12
The State College of Florida Foundation Inc

The foundation is organized to provide charitable and educational aid to state college of florida, manatee-sarasota and its students.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Florida State University Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Boston Symphony Orchestra 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

12 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. 12 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $300,000 · EnvironmentThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens IncThe Florida State University Foundation Inc: $266,725 · EducationThe Florida State University Foundation I…+2 more: $14,000 · EducationSarasota Orchestra: $100,000 · OtherSarasota OrchestraSARASOTA MILITARY ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $18,250 · OtherSARASOTA MILITARY A…University of Miami Law School: $5,000 · Other+4 more: $7,500 · Other+4 moreTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $30,250 · PhilanthropyBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureHOLIDAY HOUSE SRQ INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesDON'T EVER GIVE UP INC: $1,000 · Health
Environment$300,000Education$280,725Other$130,750Philanthropy$30,250Arts & Culture$20,000Human Services$10,000Health$1,000

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 budgetThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $300,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Florida State University Foundation Inc: $266,725 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $30,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSARASOTA MILITARY ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $18,250 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHOLIDAY HOUSE SRQ INC: $10,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetTHE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNew College Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSARASOTA CONCERT BAND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetKEY CHORALE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDON'T EVER GIVE UP INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Gaston Dufresne Foundation For The Performing Arts Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gaston Dufresne Foundation For The Performing Arts Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 15 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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