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Rita B Lamere Memorial Foundation at a glance

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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.

$135k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$288kRecreation & Sports$100kPhilanthropy$100kEnvironment$75kScience & Tech$60kHuman Services$51kFood & Nutrition$38kEducation$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE MYOSITIS ASSOCIATION: $25k → 6%HARVEST HOUSE: $8k → 9%HARVEST HOUSE: $3k → 9%RESURRECTION HOUSE: $3k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$573k · 12 repeat orgs$156k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
8

Total granted

$573k
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+11%

Still filing today

58%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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

  • TB
    The Bay Park Conservancy Inc
    4× · 2020–2023 · $100k · revenue +334%
  • MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +138%
  • SM
    SARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $47k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -24%
  • TF
    TREE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -30%
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
Suncoast Partnership to End Homelessness

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…

Human Services
2
Suncoast Waterkeeper Inc

We unite the suncoast to protect and improve our waters through science-driven actions.

—
3
Sarasota Bay Watch Inc

To preserve and restore sarasota bay's ecosystem through education and citizen participation.

Environment
4
Sarasota City Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
5
Science & Environment Council of Southwest Florida Inc

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…

Environment
6
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
7
Marco Island Community Parks Foundation Inc

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…

Recreation & Sports
8
Rasm Realtors Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

Philanthropy
9
Pines of Sarasota Foundation Inc

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.

Health
10
Conservation Florida Inc

Conservation florida's mission is to permanently protect florida's water, wildlife, and wild places - the places that make florida home.

Environment
11
Peace River Community Housing Partners Inc

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…

Human Services
12
Florida State Parks Foundation Inc

Florida state parks foundation preserves, protects, sustains and grows florida state parks.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Suncoast Charities for Children Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 25 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MYOSITIS FOUNDATION: $85,000 · OtherMYOSITIS FOUNDATIONMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $60,000 · OtherMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INCAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $55,000 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYIndividual grant recipient: $55,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCONSERVATION FOUNDATION GULF COAST: $45,000 · OtherCONSERVATION FOUNDATION GULF COASTUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINEAMERICAN RED CROSS: $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSBig Waters Land Trust Inc: $15,000 · Other+4 more: $30,500 · Other+4 moreThe Bay Park Conservancy Inc: $100,000 · Community ImprovementThe Bay Park Cons…MOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS INC: $25,000 · Community ImprovementMOTHERS HELPING M…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY…SARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $46,820 · HealthSARASOTA MEDI…Foundation for Dreams Inc: $31,250 · HealthFoundation fo…SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · HealthSARASOTA MEMO…The State College of Florida Foundation Inc: $32,000 · EducationTREE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationSummit Charter School: $3,113 · EducationThe Myositis Association: $25,000 · Human ServicesHARVEST HOUSE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesRESURRECTION HOUSE INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $27,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$395,500Community Improvement$125,000Philanthropy$100,000Health$98,070Education$45,113Human Services$37,500Food & Nutrition$27,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Bay Park Conservancy Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $46,820 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetThe State College of Florida Foundation Inc: $32,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFoundation for Dreams Inc: $31,250 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $27,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Waters Land Trust Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSUNCOAST CHARITIES FOR CHILDREN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTREE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHARVEST HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION PATRIOT SUPPORT: $5,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWATERWAY ADVOCATES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSummit Charter School: $3,113 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESURRECTION HOUSE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% 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 …Everett W Erdoesy & G…Tarr Charitable Famil…The Tillie Jennie & H…William G and Marie S…Charles & Margery Bar…Janice S Kelly Memori…James M Doss Charitab…The Louis and Gloria …Manatee Community Fou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL27.4× affinity11 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 · 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

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 Rita B Lamere Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rita B Lamere Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Rita B Lamere Memorial Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rita B Lamere Memorial Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 25 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-PF 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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