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Junior League of Sarasota Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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Junior League of Sarasota Inc

An organization of women committed to promoting volunteerism,developing the potential of women and improving the community.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$75kHealth$63kEducation$52kYouth Development$51kArts & Culture$38kFood & Nutrition$9kCrime & Legal$5kEnvironment$5k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,300
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GUARDIAN ANGELS OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $10k → 10%GUARDIAN ANGELS OF SW FLORIDA INC: $4k → 10%SAFE CHILDREN COALITIONINC: $7k → 9%HOLIDAY HOUSE SRQ: $9k → 9%TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC: $5k → 9%THE FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD: $5k → 9%COMMUNITY HAVEN FOR ADULTS AND CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES INC: $5k → 9%THE FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INC: $5k → 9%THE TWIG CARES INC: $3k → 9%PINES OF SARASOTA INC: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 16% of Junior League of Sarasota Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 85%.

Junior League of Sarasota Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$121k · 10 repeat orgs$176k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +79% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
26

Total granted

$121k
$156k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%
+17%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ES
    Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc
    3× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +528%
  • GA
    GUARDIAN ANGELS OF S W FLORIDA INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $14k · revenue +406%
  • EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES INC
    2× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +150%

Funded once

  • RC
    RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +43%
  • SS
    SISTERS SOWING SEEDS
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • NP
    NORTH PORT COALITION FOR HOMELESS NEEDY CHILDREN INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +4%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Child Protection Center Inc

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,…

Crime & Legal
2
Sarasota City Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
3
Pathways Early Education Center of Immokalee Inc

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.

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4
Sarasota Academy of the Arts Inc

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…

Education
5
Hollys Hope of North Port
Education
6
Space Coast Discovery Inc

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…

Health
7
Manatee Children's Services Inc

Preventing child abuse, restoring healing, and strengthening all children and their families through advocacy, treatment, and shelter.

Crime & Legal
8
Santa Rosa Kids' House Inc

To deliver a well coordinated and multi-disciplined response to child abuse in an environment that puts children first

Youth Development
9
Sarasota Medical Pregnancy Center Inc

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…

Health
10
Suncoast Center Inc

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,…

Health
11
Sarasota School of Arts and Sciences Inc

To provide a small, intimate environment of academic excellence and enrichment, utilizing community partnerships and traditional and innovative teaching methods.

Education
12
Suncoast Waldorf Association Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Forty Carrots of Sarasota Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 39 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
24/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GUARDIAN ANGELS OF S W FLORIDA INC: $13,818 · Human ServicesGUARDIAN ANGELS OF S W F…THE FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INC: $9,800 · Human ServicesTHE FLORIDA CENTER FOR E…HOLIDAY HOUSE SRQ INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesHOLIDAY HOUSE SRQ INCSELAH FREEDOM INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesSELAH FREEDOM INCSAFE CHILDREN COALITION INC: $7,458 · Human ServicesSAFE CHILDREN COALITION …PINES OF SARASOTA INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesPINES OF SARASOTA INCCommunity Haven For Adults And Children With Disabilities Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Haven For Adul…TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTIDEWELL HOSPICE INCTHE TWIG CARES INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesEaster Seals Southwest Florida Inc: $15,000 · HealthEaster Seals Southwes…TIDEWELL FOUNDATION INC: $14,448 · HealthTIDEWELL FOUNDATION I…Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc: $10,338 · HealthSafe Place and Rape C…CENTERSTONE OF FLORIDA INC: $7,500 · HealthCENTERSTONE OF FLORID…CHILDREN'S CANCER CENTER INC: $5,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S CANCER CEN…HEALTHY START COALITION OF SARASOTA COUNTY INC: $4,500 · HealthHEALTHY START COALITI…SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $19,300 · OtherSARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENT…SISTERS SOWING SEEDS: $10,000 · OtherSISTERS SOWING SEEDSSCHOOL READINESS COALITION OF SARASOTA COUNTY INC: $6,134 · OtherSCHOOL READINESS COALITION OF…SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SUPPORT INC: $5,000 · OtherSCHOOL ATTENDANCE SUPPORT INCFamily Network on Disabilities of Florida Inc: $5,000 · OtherFamily Network on Disabilitie…LAUREL CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC: $4,000 · OtherForty Carrots of Sarasota Inc: $4,000 · OtherHEART GALLERY OF SARASOTA: $3,000 · OtherMOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS INC: $6,000 · OtherMOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS INCTRANSITION SARASOTA INC: $5,000 · OtherTRANSITION SARASOTA INCUNIDOSNOW INC: $5,770 · OtherUNIDOSNOW INCBig Waters Land Trust Inc: $5,000 · OtherBig Waters Land Trust IncGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SARASOTA COUNTY: $11,341 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPOR…NORTH PORT COALITION FOR HOMELESS NEEDY CHILDREN INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentNORTH PORT COA…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS…GIRL SCOUTS OF GULFCOAST FLORIDA INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF…TEEN COURT OF SARASOTA INC: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEEN COURT OF …EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES INC: $13,500 · Arts & CultureEMBRACING …FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC: $8,200 · Arts & CultureFLORIDA ST…Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSarasota B…RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $10,000 · EducationEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY: $8,000 · EducationEVERYDAY BLESSINGS INC: $9,000 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S GUARDIAN FUND: $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$65,576Health$57,286Other$78,204Youth Development$37,841Arts & Culture$26,700Education$18,000Crime & Legal$14,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $19,300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEaster Seals Southwest Florida Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTIDEWELL FOUNDATION INC: $14,448 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGUARDIAN ANGELS OF S W FLORIDA INC: $13,818 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetEMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES INC: $13,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SARASOTA COUNTY: $11,341 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSafe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc: $10,338 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH PORT COALITION FOR HOMELESS NEEDY CHILDREN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INC: $9,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOLIDAY HOUSE SRQ INC: $9,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetEVERYDAY BLESSINGS INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC: $8,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSELAH FREEDOM INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTERSTONE OF FLORIDA INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE CHILDREN COALITION INC: $7,458 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIDOSNOW INC: $5,770 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER CENTER INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S GUARDIAN FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPINES OF SARASOTA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Network on Disabilities of Florida Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSarasota Ballet of Florida Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF GULFCOAST FLORIDA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Haven For Adults And Children With Disabilities Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTIDEWELL HOSPICE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Waters Land Trust Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHY START COALITION OF SARASOTA COUNTY INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTEEN COURT OF SARASOTA INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLAUREL CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetForty Carrots of Sarasota Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEART GALLERY OF SARASOTA: $3,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE TWIG CARES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Gulf Coast Community …Manatee Community Fou…Charles & Margery Bar…The Louis and Gloria …William G and Marie S…United Way Suncoast I…Sisterhood For Good I…Harry Sudakoff Founda…Msc Foundation IncAnnette J Hagens Memo…Wilson - Wood Foundat…
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL62.7× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Junior League of Sarasota Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Junior League of Sarasota Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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