· Community foundation
Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc
Together with our donors, we transform our region through bold and proactive philanthropy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 651 grants below total $44,977,079 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $46,699,484 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,722,405 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 $10k136 grants · $976k
- $10k–50k368 grants · $7.1M
- $50k–250k110 grants · $12M
- $250k+37 grants · $25M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VENICE THEATRE INC | $2,101,739 |
| THE BOCA GRANDE PRESCHOOL INC | $1,915,035 |
| THE BAY PARK CONSERVANCY INC | $1,684,292 |
| SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $1,444,167 |
| BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $1,138,361 |
| THE MARIE SELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS INC | $1,123,261 |
| SAFE CHILDREN COALITION INC | $1,112,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOUTH PINELLAS INC | $1,027,130 |
| BOWDOIN COLLEGE | $1,005,000 |
| ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC | $957,021 |
| MOTE MARINE LABORATORY & AQUARIUM | $949,376 |
| SPECIAL DAY FOUNDATION INC | $740,000 |
| SARASOTA ORCHESTRA | $725,432 |
| ISTS INC - ACCOUNTING TEAM | $684,474 |
| FORTY CARROTS OF SARASOTA INC | $561,616 |
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 (FY17–25, $24.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +41% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
776 repeat relationships — 439 still active in FY2025, 337 since wound down; 120 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.8M 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
- TBThe Bay Park Conservancy Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $22M · revenue ×53 · 87% of their budget
The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $10M · revenue +183%- RCRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $8.8M · revenue +67%
Funded once
- GCGULF COAST STRATEGIC INVESTMENTS INCone grant, 2020 · $13M · revenue -82% · 100% of their budget
- SHSARASOTA HOUSING FUNDING CORPone grant, 2021 · $2.2M · revenue +22%
- SASPECIAL ATHLETE BOOSTERS INCone grant, 2017 · $400k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust. 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 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
1150 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. 1150 of the 1,426 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 The Bay Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST STRATEGIC INVESTMENTS INC ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ASOLO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC ↗
- Who funds Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ALL STAR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds SUNCOAST HUMANE SOCIETYINC ↗
- Who funds NATHAN BENDERSON PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds RESILIENT RETREAT INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds Children First Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL DAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOUTH PINELLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc ↗
- Who funds VENICE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds SAFE CHILDREN COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA HOUSING FUNDING CORP ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds N-ABLETEK INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SARASOTA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES 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 · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · Msc Foundation Inc · The Tillie Jennie & Harold Schwartz Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation Trust of Sarasota County · United Way Suncoast Inc · Tarr Charitable Family Foundation Inc · The Arthur S Karp Family Foundation Inc · Wilson - Wood Foundation Inc
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 Gulf Coast Community 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.
- Children First Inc — 100% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc — 67% of income from government
- Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — 23% of income from government
- Suncoast Partnership to End Homelessness — 17% of income from government
- Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc — 12% of income from government
- Centerstone of Florida Inc — 12% of income from government
- Child Protection Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc — 6% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- United Way of South Sarasota County Inc — 2% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Springfield College — 1% of income from government
- United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lightshare Behavioral Wellness & Recovery Inc — 0% of income from government
- Stetson University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Safe Children Coalition Inc — 0% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Donte's Den Foundation — 0% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Venice Symphony Inc — 0% of income from government
- Teen Court of Sarasota Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra — 0% of income from government
- Resilient Retreat Inc — 0% of income from government
- Venice Theatre Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Studio Theatre 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.