· Public charity
Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc
To conduct educational, training, workforce, and leadership development programs in sarasota county.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of GREATER SARASOTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 27 grants below total $346,465 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $454,448 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $107,983 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SARASOTA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $40,000 |
| AMERICAN VOCATIONAL ACADEMY LLC | $31,780 |
| SUN HYDRAULICS | $30,000 |
| MERIDAN WEST CENTRAL COLLEGE | $25,600 |
| AIR PRODUCTS | $25,000 |
| GREATER SARASOTA CHAMBER OF COMMERC | $12,907 |
| MINORITIES IN SHARK SCIENCE | $12,000 |
| JELDWEN | $11,646 |
| BADGER BOBS | $11,404 |
| KINSEY 5 MEDIA LLC | $10,000 |
| VETERAN AIR | $10,000 |
| MARGWINE ORGANIZATION INC | $10,000 |
| LAKEWOOD RANCH MEDICAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| PHATHEADS BARBERSHOP LLC | $10,000 |
| BRADENTON GLADIATORS FOOTBALL INC | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +33% since the first grant, against -19% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 16 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k 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
The State College of Florida Foundation Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $128k · revenue +68%- GSGREATER SARASOTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $37k · revenue +26%
- THTIDEWELL HOSPICE INC2× · 2020–2021 · $31k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- TETECHNICAL EDUCATION COUNCILone grant, 2022 · $26k
- FFLEETFORCEone grant, 2024 · $23k
- MSMKM SARASOTA LLCone grant, 2022 · $18k
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.
The Mission of the Sarasota Ballet of Florida is to enrich lives, captivate emotions and strengthen the community through the art of dance.
The advancement of marine and environmental sciences through scientific research, education and public outreach, leading new discoveries, revitalization and sustainability of our oceans and greater public understanding of our marine…
To provide a small, intimate environment of academic excellence and enrichment, utilizing community partnerships and traditional and innovative teaching methods.
Within a culture where every cadet is highly valued, sarasota military academy is committed to: (1) preparing students for college, careers, and citizenship; (2) developing tomorrow's leaders; and (3) cultivating character based upon the…
A rigorous relevant realistic and affordable educational institution built on individual talents where students develop skills and knowledge
Advancement of and development of tourism and the service of the tourism industry within the county of sarasota, florida
Our team of watchdog and investigative journalists deliver depth not by generating daily headlines but by strategically focusing our reporting power where we can get maximum impact. we will do this in several ways: original journalism: we…
To create and foster economic opportunities in collaboration with community and regional partners to diversify, grow and sustain our economy while enhancing our unique, natural and cultural environment.
Preserving our gardens and historic landmarks while promoting the environment, conservation and civic beautification through education and programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The State College of Florida Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is New College Child 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.
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.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 66 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 SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The State College of Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN VOCATIONAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER SARASOTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds MINORITIES IN SHARK SCIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARGWINE ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRADENTON GLADIATORS FOOTBALL INC ↗
- Who funds New College Child Center Inc ↗
- Who funds RESILIENT RETREAT 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 · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · The Tillie Jennie & Harold Schwartz Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce Foundation 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.
- Resilient Retreat Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tidewell Hospice 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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