· Private foundation
Hecht Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $258k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $124k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GCHFA INC | $73,500 |
| SARASOTA CONCERT BAND | $50,000 |
| FLORIDA WEST COAST SYMPHONY INC | $40,000 |
| THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $40,000 |
| SARASOTA COUNTY SCHOOLS | $37,500 |
| ALL STARS PROJECT INC | $30,000 |
| MANATEE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
| VH1 SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| SARASOTA POPS ORCHESTRA INC | $20,000 |
| SARASOTA YOUNG VOICES INCORPORATED | $15,000 |
| GUITAR SARASOTA | $15,000 |
| CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF SARASOTA AND | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $332k) 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GIGCHFA INC GULF COAST HOMESCHOOL FINE ARTS5× · 2020–2024 · $332k · revenue +77% · 39% of their budget
- STSAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $240k · revenue +108%
- SCSARASOTA CONCERT BAND INC5× · 2020–2024 · $237k · revenue +13% · 93% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $15k
- FFFURTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA STATEone grant, 2021 · $15k
- BMBOOKER MIDDLE SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $15k
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.
Performing to the general public
To promote and develop music appreciation: band members, students and audience
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.
To present quality musical concerts for the general public and to promote and assist in the development of aspiring musicians.
Providing classical music to audiences at an affordable price
To preserve jazz music as an art form.
To educate and enrich the lives of people of all ages and incomes by presenting world class chamber music concerts that are open and free.
To present public concerts of the highest quality choral literature, both accompanied and a capella, by a chamber chorus of gifted vocal musicians to enlighten and entertain the community.
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…
Sarasota Opera produces impassioned opera performances true to the vision of the composer, to entertain, enrich, educate, and inspire a life-long love of opera in our diverse and growing communities.
The perlman music program/suncoast encourages artistic development and camaraderie amoung young international string musicians via a nurturing non-competitive world-renowned music education program.
The purpose of the Bonita Springs Concert Band is to (1) provide an opportunity for area musicians to express and develop their skills; (2) to present concerts for the people of the Bonita Springs/Lee County area to enhance their enjoyment…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 16 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
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 GCHFA INC GULF COAST HOMESCHOOL FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA CONCERT BAND INC ↗
- Who funds ALL STARS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra ↗
- Who funds MANATEE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA YOUNG VOICES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA POPS ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds GUITAR SARASOTA 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 · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hecht Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hecht Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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