· Public charity
Junior League of Sarasota Inc
An organization of women committed to promoting volunteerism,developing the potential of women and improving the community.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLIDAY HOUSE SRQ | $9,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SARASOTA & DESOTO COUNTIES INC | $7,500 |
| TIDEWELL FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION | $6,300 |
| TEEN COURT | $4,000 |
| FLORIDA STUDIO THEATER | $3,200 |
| CHILDREN'S CANCER CENTER | $3,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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.
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 16% of Junior League of Sarasota Inc’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, 100% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 85% — 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 +79% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- ESEaster Seals Southwest Florida Inc3× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +528%
- GAGUARDIAN ANGELS OF S W FLORIDA INC2× · 2020–2022 · $14k · revenue +406%
EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES INC2× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +150%
Funded once
- NPNORTH PORT COALITION FOR HOMELESS NEEDY CHILDREN INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +4%
- SSSISTERS SOWING SEEDSone grant, 2024 · $10k
- RCRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +43%
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 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,…
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.
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…
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…
Preventing child abuse, restoring healing, and strengthening all children and their families through advocacy, treatment, and shelter.
To deliver a well coordinated and multi-disciplined response to child abuse in an environment that puts children first
To offer cost free pregnancy-related medical services, behavioral and social services and general resources that can benefit the mother and/or father from pre-birth to post-birth. from the pregnancy test to the baby's first birthday we…
For 80 years, suncoast center, inc. has held true to its mission of "strengthening, protecting, and restoring lives for a healthy community" by providing a comprehensive range of evidence-based services that address emotional wellness,…
To provide a small, intimate environment of academic excellence and enrichment, utilizing community partnerships and traditional and innovative teaching methods.
The Waldorf School of Tampa Bay is a community of teachers, staff, parents, and friends who honor childhood and value each stage of human development. Our goal is to educate the whole child to meet the world with grace, integrity and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Forty Carrots of Sarasota Inc and the most unlike its peers is Heart Gallery of Sarasota. 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 38 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 39 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 Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds TIDEWELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN ANGELS OF S W FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SARASOTA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH PORT COALITION FOR HOMELESS NEEDY CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds THE FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds HOLIDAY HOUSE SRQ INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYDAY BLESSINGS INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds SELAH FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CENTERSTONE OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE CHILDREN COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIDOSNOW INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S GUARDIAN FUND ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION SARASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds Big Waters Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds PINES OF SARASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds Family Network on Disabilities of Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF GULFCOAST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Community Haven For Adults And Children With Disabilities Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY START COALITION OF SARASOTA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TEEN COURT OF SARASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds Forty Carrots of Sarasota Inc ↗
- Who funds LAUREL CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEART GALLERY OF SARASOTA ↗
- Who funds THE TWIG CARES 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 · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · United Way Suncoast Inc · Sisterhood For Good Inc · Harry Sudakoff Foundation Inc · Msc Foundation Inc · Annette J Hagens Memorial Foundation · Wilson - Wood Foundation 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 Junior League of Sarasota 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.
- Selah Freedom Inc — 53% of income from government
- Family Network on Disabilities of Florida Inc — 37% of income from government
- Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — 23% of income from government
- Pines of Sarasota Inc — 18% of income from government
- Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc — 12% of income from government
- Centerstone of Florida Inc — 12% of income from government
- Safe Children Coalition Inc — 0% of income from government
- Everyday Blessings Inc — 0% of income from government
- Teen Court of Sarasota Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Studio Theatre Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tidewell Hospice 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.