· Private foundation
Ideal Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
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 |
| Grace Methodist Church | $11,500 |
| St Peters United Church | $11,500 |
| Am Friends of London Philharmonic Orche | $10,000 |
| Planned Parenthood of SW Cen FL | $10,000 |
| Library Foundation for Sarasota County | $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 |
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 (FY20–25, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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 +53% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
44 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. 44 of the 81 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 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 BOWMAN'S HILL WILDFLOWER PRESERVE ASSOCIATION ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ideal Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ideal Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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