· Private foundation
Lela D Jackson Foundation for the Arts Co
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
58% of Lela D Jackson Foundation for the Arts Co’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation Of Sarasota Co Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FDN OF SARASOTA CTY | $250,000 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY | $100,020 |
| SARASOTA BALLET OF FLORIDA INC | $20,000 |
| RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN | $20,000 |
| FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE | $20,000 |
| SARASOTA ORCHESTRA | $20,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 67% of Lela D Jackson Foundation for the Arts Co’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EFEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY7× · 2019–2025 · $578k · revenue +104%
- SBSarasota Ballet of Florida Inc6× · 2018–2025 · $120k · revenue +134%
- RCRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC4× · 2018–2025 · $85k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- HHHOLIDAY HOUSE SRQ INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +157%
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.
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…
To provide a small, intimate environment of academic excellence and enrichment, utilizing community partnerships and traditional and innovative teaching methods.
To provide educational displays and information on art in our area and to provide scholarships.
Within a culture where every cadet is highly valued, sarasota military academy is committed to: (1) preparing students for college, careers, and citizenship; (2) developing tomorrow's leaders; and (3) cultivating character based upon the…
Developing the academic potential of each student through a rigorous content-rich, classical liberal arts education while building in them a virtuous character.
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.
To create and sustain a vibrant performing arts center, advance education, and enrich communities by inspiring minds through the power of the arts.
The mission of the sarasota cuban ballet is to celebrate and sustain the cultural legacy of the cuban ballet tradition, sharing its uniqueness through performance, education, and community outreach.
Dreamers academy develops bilingual, biliterate, and cross-cultural leaders of character within a caring environment that encourages family engagement and celebrates america.
To integrate excellence in education, highly motivated and qualified teachers, deeply concerned and involved parents and a supportive community to provide students a superior learning opportunity. we will develop and reinforce a strong…
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.
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…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 10 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds VISIBLE MEN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA MILITARY ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds HOLIDAY HOUSE SRQ INC ↗
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 · The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lela D Jackson Foundation for the Arts Co funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lela D Jackson Foundation for the Arts Co. Bigger dots raise more.
- Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra: 0% of income from government
- Florida Studio Theatre Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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