· Private foundation
Rita B Lamere Memorial Foundation
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 |
|---|---|
| ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| THE MYOSITIS ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| MOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| BIG WATERS LAND TRUST | $15,000 |
| SUNCOAST CHARITIES FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| STATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MOTE MARINE LABORATORY | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 33% 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.
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 +23% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- TBThe Bay Park Conservancy Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $100k · revenue +334%
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC4× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +129%- SMSARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER INC2× · 2022–2023 · $47k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2022 · $25k
SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -25%- TFTREE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -30%
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.
Lead agency in the community for providers of homeless/prevention services in manatee/sarasota. responsible to plan strategies with community partners, assist with grants, educate the public, advocate with local leadership, administer the…
We unite the suncoast to protect and improve our waters through science-driven actions.
To preserve and restore sarasota bay's ecosystem through education and citizen participation.
Promote and advocate science, conservation, and environmental issues in sarasota and manatee county for maintaining and improving quality of life through education, public outreach, demonstration, information gathering adn analysis, and…
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…
The foundation is organized to raise funds for various purposes for the city parks of the city of marco island, florida, including city parks maintenance, capital improvements and technological and safety enhancements, and those other…
The RRCFs mission is to enhance the quality of life and opportunities in Sarasota and Manatee counties, and support RASM members in need, through the direct gifts of RASM members.
Pines of sarasota foundation secures funding to provide compassionate care, vital resources, and financial assistance for the seniors, children, and the nursing community serving them.
Conservation florida's mission is to permanently protect florida's water, wildlife, and wild places - the places that make florida home.
To advocate for the development and construction of safe, functional, affordable and sustainable housing for SW Florida residents. Peace River Community Housing Partners, Inc. (PORCH) takes a leadership role in convening organizations…
Florida state parks foundation preserves, protects, sustains and grows florida state parks.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Suncoast Charities for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Operation Patriot Support. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 25 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ↗
- Who funds The Bay Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The State College of Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Dreams Inc ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds The Myositis Association ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Big Waters Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds SUNCOAST CHARITIES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds TREE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION PATRIOT SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds WATERWAY ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds Summit Charter School ↗
- Who funds RESURRECTION HOUSE 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 · Everett W Erdoesy & Gretha M Erdoesy Foundation · Tarr Charitable Family Foundation Inc · The Tillie Jennie & Harold Schwartz Foundation Inc · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Janice S Kelly Memorial Foundation · James M Doss Charitable Foundation Trust · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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 Rita B Lamere Memorial Foundation 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.
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Harvest House 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.
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