· Private foundation
Sack Family Foundation Irrevocable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Sack Family Foundation Irrevocable Trust’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $3k
- $250k+1 grant · $564k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Gulf Coast Community Foundation | $564,000 |
| Manatee County Community Foundation | $1,500 |
| Heroes in Transition | $400 |
| Central Office of Sara-Mana AA | $300 |
| Cornell University of Hotel Admin | $105 |
| Sarasota Sailor Soccer Club Inc | $100 |
| Friends of Mashpee Library | $100 |
| Cornell Class of 1961 | $25 |
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 (FY20–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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 +42% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAPE COD INC2× · 2020–2021 · $13k · revenue +290%
CHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC2× · 2020–2023 · $4k · revenue +42%- MCMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $3k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- ASALL STAR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -4%
- TFTREE FORT PRODUCTIONS PROJECTSone grant, 2023 · $3k
- SASalvation Armyone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…
Sarasota memorial healthcare foundation is the philanthropic partner that helps sarasota memorial health care system bring world-class care to our community.
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.
Forty carrots family center's mission is to nurture healthy child and family development through research-based, relationship-centered education and mental health services.
Our team of watchdog and investigative journalists deliver depth not by generating daily headlines but by strategically focusing our reporting power where we can get maximum impact. we will do this in several ways: original journalism: we…
The prostate cancer foundation (pcf) funds the world's most promising research on the biology and treatment of prostate cancer, accelerating those discoveries into therapies and strategies designed to improve the quality of life and…
To provide educational displays and information on art in our area and to provide scholarships.
As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…
To educate medical professionals and the public the importance of early detection and prevention of cardiovascular disease.
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…
The safe children coalition's mission is to protect children and youth, strengthen families, and build community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Manatee Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lee & Bob Peterson Foundation Inc Dba Sunshine From Darkness. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 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. 28 of the 41 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 GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds ALL STAR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MANATEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TREE FORT PRODUCTIONS PROJECTS ↗
- Who funds HEROES IN TRANSITION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Rescue Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc ↗
- Who funds SJOGREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CALMER CHOICE INC ↗
- Who funds The Bay Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL OFFICE OF SARA-MANA INC ↗
- Who funds CAT DEPOT ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MASHPEE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds SENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc ↗
- Who funds MOVEMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEE & BOB PETERSON FOUNDATION INC DBA SUNSHINE FROM DARKNESS ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE RYAN RICHARDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CURESEARCH FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA FILM SOCIETY 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 · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · The Tillie Jennie & Harold Schwartz Foundation Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · The Rubin Charitable Foundation Inc · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · Harold C & Jacqueline F Bladel Foundation Declaration of Charitable Tr · Weiner Family Foundation · Mote Scientific Foundation Inc Pratt · Theda Bohrer Wendy and Tracey Shapiro Charitable Foundation 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 Sack Family Foundation Irrevocable Trust 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.
- Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc — 67% of income from government
- Calmer Choice Inc — 14% of income from government
- Child Protection Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- Harvest House Inc — 0% of income from government
- Heroes in Transition Inc — 0% of income from government
- Animal Rescue Coalition Inc — 0% of income from government
- Cat Depot — 0% of income from government
- Florida Studio Theatre 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.