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Ideal Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $166k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Friends of English Orchestra | $32,930 |
| Playhouse Artists | $25,000 |
| Marie Selby Botanical Gardens | $20,500 |
| Russell Sage Colleges | $20,000 |
| Invisible Theatre | $15,000 |
| St Peters United Church | $11,500 |
| Grace Methodist Church | $11,500 |
| Planned Parenthood of SW Cen FL | $10,000 |
| Library Foundation for Sarasota County | $10,000 |
| Am Friends of London Philharmonic Orche | $10,000 |
| On File w Community Fndn of Sarasot | $8,000 |
| The Watertower Theatre | $5,000 |
| Bureau County Historical Museum | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Historical Society of Sarasota Coun | $1,500 |
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, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
Children First Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $217k · revenue +53%- RSRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE8× · 2017–2025 · $173k · revenue +42%
The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $97k · revenue +183%
Funded once
- MCMoffitt Cancer Centerone grant, 2024 · $10k
- PDPARSONS DANCE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -4%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $4k
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.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
To invest in america's finest artists and illuminate the value of artists to society.
The mission of pittsburgh public theater is to provide artistically diverse theatrical experiences of the highest quality. pittsburgh public theater also strives to serve, challenge, stimulate, and (continued on schedule o)
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.
The cathedral arts project's mission is to empower every child's creative spirit, elevate arts educators in their field and advocate for access in arts education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is Dr Albert Varacallo Foundation. 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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 81 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 Children First Inc ↗
- Who funds RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds BUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYHOUSE ARTISTS ↗
- Who funds Animal Rescue Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INVISIBLE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds New College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF SARASOTA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ASOLO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWER THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Fishermans Mark ↗
- Who funds PARSONS DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY ↗
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 · Norman E Peterson and Diana Lager Peterson Educational Fund Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · The Arthur S Karp Family Foundation Inc · The Pearl Family Foundation Inc · Boscia Family Foundation · The Tillie Jennie & Harold Schwartz Foundation Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Ideal Foundation 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
- Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — 23% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- Animal Rescue Coalition Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens 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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