· Private foundation
Norman E Peterson and Diana Lager Peterson Educational Fund Inc
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Jewish Committee DBA AJC | $5,000 |
| Embracing Our Differences Inc | $4,000 |
| Country Dance and Song Society | $3,000 |
| Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc | $3,000 |
| Wm J Brennan Center For Justice Inc | $3,000 |
| Pinewoods Camp Inc | $3,000 |
| Ringling Museum of Art Fdn Inc | $2,500 |
| Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc | $2,500 |
| Sarasota Art Museum | $2,500 |
| Library Fdn of Sarasota County Inc | $2,500 |
| Sarasota Opera Association Inc | $2,500 |
| Ringling College of Art and Design | $2,500 |
| Sarasota-Manatee Jewish Hsg Cncl | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 20 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
Sarasota Opera Association Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +98%- RCRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC6× · 2020–2025 · $22k · revenue +21%
The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- FWFlorida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestraone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -37%
- ASALL STAR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +150%
- NCNEW COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $4k
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.
To present internationally renowed orchestras, chamber ensembles and solo artists to the greater sarasota community, and to showcase outstanding regional musicians in a series of free public concerts.
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…
The Mission of the Sarasota Ballet of Florida is to enrich lives, captivate emotions and strengthen the community through the art of dance.
To provide educational displays and information on art in our area and to provide scholarships.
The mission of the realtor association of sarasota and manatee is to advance members' professionalism through delivery of education and resources, and to advocate for real estate in the communities served.
To provide sarasota with opportunities for creative expression and art appreciation through art education, exhibitions and cultural programs.
Advancement of and development of tourism and the service of the tourism industry within the county of sarasota, florida
To create and foster economic opportunities in collaboration with community and regional partners to diversify, grow and sustain our economy while enhancing our unique, natural and cultural environment.
Developing the academic potential of each student through a rigorous content-rich, classical liberal arts education while building in them a virtuous character.
Aviva is a not-for-profit organization offering a full continuum of retirement rental options - from independent living to advanced care services that provide security, wellness, intellectual and spiritual fulfillment.
The organization provides financial support to sarasota-manatee jewish housing council, inc., a not-for-profit provider of independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing and other services for elderly individuals from sarasota and…
To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pines of Sarasota Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Bicycling Education Association. 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 39 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 50 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 Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc ↗
- Who funds EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc ↗
- Who funds Children First Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra ↗
- Who funds PINEWOODS CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds KEY CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds NEURO CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COUNTRY DANCE AND SONG SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PINES OF SARASOTA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ALL STAR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds PINES OF SARASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
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 · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Roberta Leventhal Sudakoff Foundation Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · The Aaron Family Foundation · Woman's Exchange Inc of Sarasota · The Arthur S Karp Family Foundation Inc · The Cowles Charitable Trust · Publix Super Markets Charities 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 Norman E Peterson and Diana Lager Peterson Educational Fund 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.
- Children First Inc — 100% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc — 67% of income from government
- Pines of Sarasota Inc — 18% of income from government
- Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra — 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.