· Private foundation
James M Doss Charitable Foundation Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $405k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES | $50,000 |
| SUNCOAST CHARITIES FOR CHILDREN | $40,000 |
| EASTER SEALS SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC | $30,000 |
| UF HEALTH PROTON THERAPY INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| SEMINOLE BOOSTERS INC | $25,000 |
| PINES OF SARASOTA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| HERRIG CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $25,000 |
| ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| ASHEVILLE BUNCOMBE COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRY | $25,000 |
| CAMP BOGGY CREEK | $25,000 |
| TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN SARASOTA | $25,000 |
| SUMMIT CHARTER SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| BIG WATERS LAND TRUST | $20,000 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY | $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 (FY21–25, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of James M Doss Charitable Foundation Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 84% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +47% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 8 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k 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
- SBSEMINOLE BOOSTERS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $225k · revenue +35%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $191k · revenue +78%- SMSARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER INC5× · 2020–2025 · $162k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- ABARCADIA BOYS & GIRLS CLUBSone grant, 2020 · $100k
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -76%
- BGBoys & Girls Club of The Plateau Incone grant, 2022 · $28k · revenue -4%
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 florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…
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…
Pathways Early Education Center of Immokalee closes the opportunity gap by providing individualized, high-quality cognitive, social, emotional and physical education to children from birth to 5 years.
To promote policies that build effective primary prevention and early intervention systems of support for florida's children and families by engaging and enhancing the collective strengths of the individual children's services councils of…
We unite the suncoast to protect and improve our waters through science-driven actions.
The mission of the child protection center, inc. is the prevention, intervention and treatment of child abuse. we envision a community where children are safe from abuse and free to thrive. to successfully address the issue of child abuse,…
At Space Coast Discovery, we believe that every child, of every ability deserves individualized instruction and benefits from inclusive classroom environments. (continued on Sched O)Our unique inclusion program provides equal learning…
Forty carrots family center's mission is to nurture healthy child and family development through research-based, relationship-centered education and mental health services.
The safe children coalition's mission is to protect children and youth, strengthen families, and build community.
Florida state parks foundation preserves, protects, sustains and grows florida state parks.
The Mission of the Sarasota Ballet of Florida is to enrich lives, captivate emotions and strengthen the community through the art of dance.
Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Sun Coast Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mote Marine Laboratory Inc. 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 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 47 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 SEMINOLE BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC ↗
- Who funds PINES OF SARASOTA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUNCOAST CHARITIES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTH SARASOTA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE SUN COAST INC ↗
- Who funds TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds Big Waters Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc ↗
- Who funds EXCHANGE CLUB FAMILY PARTNERSHIP CENTER OF MANATEE ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA SHARKS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DREAM FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds The State College of Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Adventure for All Corporation ↗
- Who funds FACE AUTISM 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 · Msc Foundation Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Annette J Hagens Memorial Foundation · The Tillie Jennie & Harold Schwartz Foundation Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Janice S Kelly Memorial Foundation · United Way Suncoast 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 M Doss Charitable Foundation Trust 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
- Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc — 12% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children — 0% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — 0% of income from government
- Children's Dream Fund 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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