· Community foundation
Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc
Together with our donors, we transform our region through bold and proactive philanthropy.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
773 repeat relationships: 436 still active in FY2025, 337 since wound down; 123 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.
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Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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How this is measured
1148 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. 1148 of the 1,424 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOUTH PINELLAS INC ↗
- Who funds VENICE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE 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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds N-ABLETEK INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SARASOTA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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