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Rotary Club of Sarasota Foundation Inc

The foundation's mission is to help the rotary club of sarasota build a better community and world through humanitarian, educational and other charitable endeavors.

$375k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$131k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$426kPublic Safety & Disaster$107kRecreation & Sports$102kArts & Culture$42kHuman Services$25kYouth Development$20kPhilanthropy$15kPublic Benefit$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $350,333, the rows itemized in this filing. The $374,523 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $24,190 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $268k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$640k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOOKER MIDDLE SCHOOL$130,850
BOOKER HIGH SCHOOL$75,434
Individual grant recipient$61,549
PATTERSON FDN$15,000
EASTER SEALS OF SW FLORIDA$15,000
TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN OF SRQ$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS-SARASOTA$10,000
SELAH FREEDOM$10,000
CHILDREN FIRST$10,000
EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES$7,500
02The need
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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 (FY25–25, $10k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SELAH FREEDOM: $10k → 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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Rotary Club of Sarasota Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Rotary Club of Sarasota Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$466k · 6 repeat orgs$195k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$466k
$89k

Still filing today

67%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • BM
    BOOKER MIDDLE SCHOOL
    2× · 2024–2025 · $150k
  • TP
    THE PATTERSON FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $138k · revenue -28%
  • BH
    BOOKER HIGH SCHOOL
    2× · 2024–2025 · $100k

Funded once

  • EE
    EMMA E BOOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $52k
  • BH
    BOOKER HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • MC
    MAYOR'S CAMPAIGN FEED HUNGRY
    one grant, 2022 · $12k
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
05the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
3/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOOKER MIDDLE SCHOOL: $149,850 · OtherBOOKER MIDDLE SCHOOLBOOKER HIGH SCHOOL: $100,434 · OtherBOOKER HIGH SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $61,549 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEMMA E BOOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $51,919 · OtherEMMA E BOOKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBOOKER HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT: $25,000 · OtherBOOKER HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC DEPARTMENTTAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN OF SRQ: $15,000 · Other+2 more: $22,000 · OtherTHE PATTERSON FOUNDATION: $137,978 · PhilanthropyTHE PATTERSON FOUNDATIONTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $106,518 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentEaster Seals Southwest Florida Inc: $25,000 · HealthEMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES INC: $22,500 · Arts & CultureChildren First Inc: $10,000 · EducationSELAH FREEDOM INC: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$425,752Philanthropy$244,496Youth Development$30,000Health$25,000Arts & Culture$22,500Education$10,000Human Services$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE PATTERSON FOUNDATION: $137,978 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $106,518 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetEaster Seals Southwest Florida Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds THE PATTERSON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc ↗
  • Who funds EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES INC ↗
  • Who funds Children First Inc ↗
  • Who funds SELAH FREEDOM INC ↗

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.

Gulf Coast Community …Fidelity Investments …
Gulf Coast Community Foundation IncFL13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Rotary Club of Sarasota Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rotary Club of Sarasota Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 53%
  • Children First Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Selah Freedom Inc: 53% of income from government
  • Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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.
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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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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