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Roberta Leventhal Sudakoff Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Health$3.8MHuman Services$1.7MArts & Culture$570kHousing & Shelter$567kEducation$512kEnvironment$500kScience & Tech$500kInternational$392kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $370k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $325k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Safe Children Coalition$500,000
Ringling College of Art & Design Inc$125,000
Habitat for Humanity Sarasota Inc$100,000
Child Protection Center$50,000
Pines Of Sarasota Foundation Inc$50,000
Forty Carrots of Sarasota Inc$45,000
All Faiths Food Bank of Sarasota$40,000
Ringling College Library Association$35,000
Boys and Girls Clubs of Sarasota and Desoto$35,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Sun Coast Inc$32,150
Community Haven for Adults and Children with$30,000
Family Promise of South Sarasota County Inc$25,000
Children First Inc$25,000
Easterseals Southwest Florida Inc$25,000
Community Foundation Season of Sharing$17,850
02The need
03

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, $1.2M) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%American National Red Cross: $36k → 9%Safe Children Coalition: $500k → 9%Safe Children Coalition: $500k → 9%Safe Children Coalition Inc: $30k → 9%Safe Children Coalition Inc: $25k → 9%The Florida Center for Early Childhood: $10k → 9%Florida Center for Early Childhood Inc: $10k → 9%YMCA Foundation of Sarasota: $25k → 9%Family Promise of South Sarasota County Inc: $25k → 9%Family Promise of South Sarasota County: $3k → 9%Resurrection House: $20k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

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.
$8.7M · 30 repeat orgs$737k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
14

Total granted

$8.7M
$552k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+46%

Still filing today

83%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther

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 MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $3.3M · revenue +625%
  • SAFE CHILDREN COALITION INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +76%
  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity Sarasota Inc
    7× · 2017–2025 · $505k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • RC
    Ringling College of Art and Design - Sarasota Museum
    one grant, 2018 · $250k
  • WESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $55k · revenue +58%
  • TC
    THE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +101%

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.

1
Sarasota Academy of the Arts Inc

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…

Education
2
Sarasota City Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
3
The Fine Arts Society of Sarasota Inc

To provide educational displays and information on art in our area and to provide scholarships.

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4
Sarasota School of Arts and Sciences Inc

To provide a small, intimate environment of academic excellence and enrichment, utilizing community partnerships and traditional and innovative teaching methods.

Education
5
Sarasota Medical Pregnancy Center Inc

To offer cost free pregnancy-related medical services, behavioral and social services and general resources that can benefit the mother and/or father from pre-birth to post-birth. from the pregnancy test to the baby's first birthday we…

Health
6
Sarasota Concert Association Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
7
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
8
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc

Community impact powered by philanthropy.

Philanthropy
9
The Sarasota Cuban Ballet School Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
10
The Players Inc

The players theatre's mission is to entertain, educate, and engage the community in high quality live theatre.

Arts & Culture
11
Realtor Association of Sarasota and Manatee Inc

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.

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12
Heart Gallery of Sarasota
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Forty Carrots of Sarasota Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mote Marine Laboratory Inc. 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 41 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%3%<5yr17%0%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr11%50%35–55yr11%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr17%0%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr18%9%20–35yr11%84%35–55yr11%4%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/39
the rest of the field
14%
347/2,500

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

38 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. 38 of the 48 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
28/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $3,300,000 · HealthSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INCPINES OF SARASOTA FOUNDATION INC — $315,000 · HealthPINES OF SARASOTA FOUNDATION INCNEURO CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC — $190,000 · Health+2 more — $105,000 · HealthHabitat for Humanity Sarasota Inc — $504,999 · OtherHabitat for Humanity Sarasota IncMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC — $500,000 · OtherMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INCRINGLING COLLEGE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC — $315,000 · OtherRINGLING COLLEGE LIBRARY ASSOCIATI…All Faiths Food Bank of Sarasota — $295,000 · OtherAll Faiths Food Bank of SarasotaRingling College of Art and Design - Sarasota Museum — $250,000 · OtherRingling College of Art and Design…Forty Carrots of Sarasota Inc — $205,725 · OtherForty Carrots of Sarasota IncCommunity Haven for Adults and Children with — $200,000 · OtherCommunity Haven for Adults and Chi…GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SARASOTA COUNTY — $132,586 · Other+15 more — $441,000 · Other+15 moreSAFE CHILDREN COALITION INC — $1,055,000 · Human ServicesSAFE CHILDREN …+5 more — $143,500 · Human Services+5 moreChildren First Inc — $372,177 · EducationRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC — $125,000 · EducationTHE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC — $50,000 · EducationTHE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC — $40,000 · Education+1 more — $20,000 · EducationThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — $500,000 · EnvironmentCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC — $165,000 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S GUARDIAN FUND — $51,000 · Crime & LegalTSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN — $12,000 · Crime & LegalSarasota Opera Association Inc — $80,000 · Arts & CultureWESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INC — $54,725 · Arts & CultureSarasota Ballet of Florida Inc — $20,000 · Arts & CultureFlorida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra — $15,000 · Arts & CultureART CENTER SARASOTA INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$3,910,000Other$2,844,310Human Services$1,198,500Education$607,177Environment$500,000Crime & Legal$228,000Arts & Culture$179,725

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $3,300,000 over 7y, 8.2% of budgetSAFE CHILDREN COALITION INC — $1,055,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Sarasota Inc — $504,999 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC — $500,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — $500,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetChildren First Inc — $372,177 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetRINGLING COLLEGE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC — $315,000 over 9y, 15% of budgetPINES OF SARASOTA FOUNDATION INC — $315,000 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetForty Carrots of Sarasota Inc — $205,725 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetNEURO CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC — $190,000 over 8y, 7.5% of budgetCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC — $165,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SARASOTA COUNTY — $132,586 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC — $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEaster Seals Southwest Florida Inc — $85,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSarasota Opera Association Inc — $80,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INC — $54,725 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S GUARDIAN FUND — $51,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetTHE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC — $40,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $36,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTH SARASOTA COUNTY INC — $27,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMANA-SOTA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIDOSNOW INC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSarasota Ballet of Florida Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFlorida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKEY CHORALE INC — $15,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS INC — $14,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetART CENTER SARASOTA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

Gulf Coast Community …The Community Foundat…William G and Marie S…Charles & Margery Bar…Harry Sudakoff Founda…The Louis and Gloria …Manatee Community Fou…Annette J Hagens Memo…Msc Foundation IncJerome & Mildred Padd…Publix Super Markets …Harold C & Jacqueline…
Gulf Coast Community Foundation IncFL62.6× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Harry Sudakoff Foundation Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · Annette J Hagens Memorial Foundation · Msc Foundation Inc · Jerome & Mildred Paddock Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Harold C & Jacqueline F Bladel Foundation Declaration of Charitable Tr

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 Roberta Leventhal Sudakoff 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Children First Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Child Protection Center Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Safe Children Coalition Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children — 0% 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Roberta Leventhal Sudakoff Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Roberta Leventhal Sudakoff Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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