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Rock by the Sea

Sponsor musical events and festivals to promote local artists, with proceeds donated to charities involving medical research and childrens services

$84k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
20%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$48k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 5
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$80k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Rock by the Sea funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$48k67%
FY20235$93k20%
FY20223$55k0%
FY20214$80k25%
FY20204$42k25%
FY20195$94k80%
FY20181$70k0%
FY20173$68kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$456kEducation$59kPublic Safety & Disaster$19kRecreation & Sports$15k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
OH
CO
KY
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The University of Florida Foundation Inc$295,00080%
Lyrics for Life$70,2084n/a
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc$40,00030%
Camp Sunshine Inc$35,00031%
Hop on a Cure Foundation Inc$28,00013%
Friends of the Franklin County Public Library Inc$27,758322%
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta$10,0001n/a
Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure Inc$10,00011%
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation$7,50010%
Camp Sunshine at Sebago Lake Inc$7,50010%
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All grantees of Rock by the Sea by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The University of Florida Foundation Inc$295,00080%
Lyrics for Life$70,2084n/a
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc$40,00030%
Camp Sunshine Inc$35,00031%
Hop on a Cure Foundation Inc$28,00013%
Friends of the Franklin County Public Library Inc$27,758322%
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta$10,0001n/a
Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure Inc$10,00011%
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation$7,50010%
Camp Sunshine at Sebago Lake Inc$7,50010%
Cincinnati Recreation Foundation$7,40013%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rock by the Sea supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe University of Florida Foundation Inc: $295,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Sunshine Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHop on a Cure Foundation Inc: $28,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFriends of the Franklin County Public Library Inc: $27,758 over 3y, 22% of budgetAccelerate Brain Cancer Cure Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Sunshine at Sebago Lake Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCincinnati Recreation Foundation: $7,400 over 1y, 3.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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How do I get to Rock by the Sea?

Find your warmest path to Rock by the Sea 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.

About Rock by the Sea

How much does Rock by the Sea give?
Rock by the Sea reported 3 itemized grants totaling $47,500, out of $84,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Rock by the Sea fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (83%), Education (11%), Public Safety & Disaster (3%).
Who are Rock by the Sea's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The University of Florida Foundation Inc ($295k), Lyrics for Life ($70k), Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc ($40k).
Does Rock by the Sea fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Rock by the Sea based?
Rock by the Sea is based in FL.

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 12 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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