· Private foundation
James and Maryann Armour Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $360k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $206k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $155,915 |
| TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $50,000 |
| RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN | $30,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $25,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER MICHIANA | $25,000 |
| ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| SECOND HEART HOMES | $25,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $25,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| SAFE PLACE AND RAPE CRISIS SENTER | $25,000 |
| MOTE MARINE LABORATORY & AQUARIUM | $20,000 |
| CALVARY CHAPEL SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| ALL STAR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SARASOTA ORCHESTRA | $20,000 |
| SARASOTA BALLET | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +88% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $286k 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
- SBSarasota Ballet of Florida Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $125k · revenue +142%
The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $112k · revenue +88%
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC5× · 2019–2024 · $110k · revenue +185%
Funded once
- RCRINGLING COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $20k
- RMRingling Musuem of Art Foundationone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
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 bay park conservancy (bpc) was formed to implement the master plan approved by the sarasota city commission to conserve 53 acres of public land for a signature park along sarasota bay. the bpc entered a long-term partnership with the…
Lead agency in the community for providers of homeless/prevention services in manatee/sarasota. responsible to plan strategies with community partners, assist with grants, educate the public, advocate with local leadership, administer the…
The mission of the realtor association of sarasota and manatee is to advance members' professionalism through delivery of education and resources, and to advocate for real estate in the communities served.
To provide a small, intimate environment of academic excellence and enrichment, utilizing community partnerships and traditional and innovative teaching methods.
The circus arts conservatory's mission is to engage and educate students using unique and innovative learning programs; to measuraly improve the quality of life for individuals in care communities; and to advance the extraordinary legacy…
The players theatre's mission is to entertain, educate, and engage the community in high quality live theatre.
To promote awareness and the preservation of buildings from the sarasota school of architecture movement, 1941-1966, and to demonstrate the relevance of the era to the contemporary built environment.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sarasota Performing Arts Center Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Calvary Chapel School Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 35 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 SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds ASOLO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SECOND HEART HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds ALL STAR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE FINE ARTS SOCIETY OF SARASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds Big Waters Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds PINES OF SARASOTA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Calvary Chapel School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LONG WALK HOME INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA-MANATEE JEWISH HOUSING COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds INCLUSION REVOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds ART CENTER SARASOTA 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 · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Weiner Family Foundation · The Rubin Charitable Foundation Inc · Msc Foundation Inc · Seidman Family Foundation · The Cowles Charitable Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 James and Maryann Armour Family 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.
- Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — 23% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% 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.