How much did Manatee Community Foundation Inc grant in FY2025?

Manatee Community Foundation Inc reported 131 itemized grants totaling $4,504,154, out of $4,894,174 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is Manatee Community Foundation Inc based?

Manatee Community Foundation Inc is based in FL.

Manatee Community Foundation Inc

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Community foundation

Manatee Community Foundation Inc

Manatee community foundation partners with our citizens to strengthen and enhance our community through philanthropy, education, and service-now and forever.

$4.9M

Granted FY2025still arriving

131

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$645k

Largest

01What you fund

01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$7.6MPhilanthropy$6.3MHuman Services$5.3MHealth$4.5MArts & Culture$4.3MEnvironment$3.1MHousing & Shelter$2.9MFood & Nutrition$2.6MOther$0

02FY2025 · 131 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 131 grants below total $4,504,154 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,894,174 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $390,020 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k37 grants · $254k
$10k–50k72 grants · $1.5M
$50k–250k20 grants · $1.8M
$250k+2 grants · $1.0M

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$69M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
EASTER SEALS SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC	$645,037
MANATEE EDUCATION FOUNDATION	$364,162
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY	$186,323
LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC DBA MANATEE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION	$160,380
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY INC	$155,739
COMMUNITY COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS DBA TURNING POINTS	$137,844
FLORIDA CULTURAL GROUP INC DBA MANATEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER	$111,654
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND	$104,799
WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$93,245
LOUIS AND GLORIA FLANZER PHILANTHROPIC TRUST	$82,400
UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC	$81,640
SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION	$81,500
CHRIST CHURCH OF LONGBOAT KEY	$75,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MANATEE COUNTY	$65,037
MEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE INC	$61,472

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $4.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$39M · 231 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

231 repeat relationships — 101 still active in FY2025, 130 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

231

127

Total granted

$39M

$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+14%

Still filing today

77%

72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $309k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureAnimalsEnvironmentOther

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

BW
Big Waters Land Trust Inc
5× · 2019–2023 · $2.5M · revenue +47% · 51% of their budget
ES
Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +528%
BM
BISHOP MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND NATURE INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +136%

Funded once

FM
FEED MORE INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue +62%
GC
GRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH
one grant, 2019 · $398k
SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue +16%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Manatee Rescue & Rehabilitation Partnership Inc

To inspire and advance manatee conservation by partnering cooperatively in manatee rescue, rehabilitation, release, and monitoring efforts; improve understanding of manatee biology and health through scientific research; and promote…

Animals

Community News Collaborative Inc

Our team of watchdog and investigative journalists deliver depth not by generating daily headlines but by strategically focusing our reporting power where we can get maximum impact. we will do this in several ways: original journalism: we…

Education

Suncoast Workforce Board Inc

The organization's mission is to identify and invest in workforce development solutions to meet the needs of manatee and sarasota counties.

Employment

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

Florida Research Center for Agricultural Sustainability Inc

Philanthropy

Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Tampa Bay Florida Inc

Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…

Animals

Suncoast Humane Societyinc

Our mission is to encourage, honor and support the human-animal bond in the suncoast region of florida. our vision is to celebrate a community whose pets are safe and loved. suncoast humane society provides sheltering, prevention and…

Animals

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

Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife Inc

The clinic for the rehabilitation of wildlife is a teaching hospital and visitor center dedicated to the saving of wildlife through state-of-the-art veterinary care, research, education, and conservation medicine.

Animals

Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc

The mission of the Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa a/k/a ZooTampa at Lowry Park, is to rescue, rehabilitate and care for animals.(Expanded mission on Schedule O)ZooTampa creates exceptional personalized experiences that connect…

Animals

Florida Conservation Group Inc

Mission is to seek protection of land and water resources through restoration and conservation; and conducting education and outreach on the ecological and economic importance of natural lands. we protect land from development and protect…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Manatee Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust. 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 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%10/392

the rest of the field

17%

17,084/102,652

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.

04the grantee network

317 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 317 of the 393 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

301/317

Grantees still filing

212/317

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$20,486,957Philanthropy$4,984,177Health$4,971,406Human Services$4,341,929Arts & Culture$4,338,653Education$2,675,761Environment$2,672,759

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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.

The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL216× affinity187 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 · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · Msc Foundation Inc · United Way Suncoast Inc · The Mary Parker Foundation 157823-000 · Sisterhood For Good Inc · Center for Faith and Freedom Inc · Wilson - Wood Foundation Inc · Tarr Charitable Family 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 Manatee Community 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

74get no government money at all

39report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

4rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home