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Sara Roberts Foundation Inc at a glance

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Sara Roberts Foundation Inc

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.

$133k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$563kScience & Tech$224kArts & Culture$182kEnvironment$33k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $120k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VAN WEZEL FOUNDATION$30,000
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC$25,000
WILDLIFE CENTER OF VENICE$25,000
LEMUR CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC$20,000
HONOR SANCTUARY INC$10,000
SUNCOAST SCIENCE CENTER FAB LAD SARASOTA$10,000
ENVIROMENTIAL CONSERVANCY OF NORTH PORT$7,500
HUMANE SOCIETY OF SARASOTA COUNTY INC$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ANIMAL RESCUE COALITION INC: $10k → 9%HONOR SANCTUARY INC: $10k → 10%ANIMAL RESCUE COALITION INC: $8k → 9%HONOR SANCTUARY INC: $10k → 10%HONOR SANCTUARY INC: $10k → 10%HONOR SANCTUARY INC: $10k → 10%HONOR SANCTUARY INC: $10k → 10%WILDLIFE CENTER OF VENICE: $25k → 9%HONOR SANCTUARY INC: $10k → 10%WILDLIFE CENTER OF VENICE: $25k → 9%HONOR SANCTUARY INC: $8k → 10%WILDLIFE CENTER OF VENICE: $25k → 9%HONOR SANCTUARY INC: $8k → 10%WILDLIFE CENTER OF VENICE: $25k → 9%LEMUR CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 10%WILDLIFE CENTER OF VENICE: $20k → 9%LEMUR CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 10%WILDLIFE CENTER OF VENICE: $20k → 9%LEMUR CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 10%WILDLIFE CENTER OF VENICE: $15k → 9%LEMUR CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 10%WILDLIFE CENTER OF VENICE: $10k → 9%LEMUR CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 10%LEMUR CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 10%SUNCOAST SCIENCE CENTER FAB LAD SARASOTA: $10k → 9%LEMUR CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 10%SUNCOAST SCIENCE CENTER FAB LAD SARASOTA: $10k → 9%LEMUR CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $19k → 10%SUNCOAST SCIENCE CENTER FAB LAD SARASOTA: $8k → 9%VINTAGE PAWS SANCTUARY: $10k → 9%VINTAGE PAWS SANCTUARY: $10k → 9%VINTAGE PAWS SANCTUARY: $10k → 9%VINTAGE PAWS SANCTUARY: $10k → 9%MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $39k → 9%VAN WEZEL FOUNDATION: $30k → 9%MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $29k → 9%MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $28k → 9%VAN WEZEL FOUNDATION: $27k → 9%MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $27k → 9%MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $25k → 9%VAN WEZEL FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%VAN WEZEL FOUNATION: $25k → 9%VAN WEZEL FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $25k → 9%MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $25k → 9%VAN WEZEL FOUNATION: $25k → 9%VAN WEZEL FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $25k → 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$989k · 9 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +159% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
2

Total granted

$989k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+159%
+22%

Still filing today

89%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
AnimalsScience & TechEnvironmentOther
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

  • MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $224k · revenue +274%
  • LC
    Lemur Conservation Foundation Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $179k · revenue +17%
  • WC
    WILDLIFE CENTER OF VENICE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $165k · revenue +156%

Funded once

  • SARASOTA AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +22%
  • SF
    SHELTER FARM SANCTUARY CORP
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -96%
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
Florida Animal Protection Foundation
Animals
2
Saving Saluda Strays
Animals
3
Saving Paws Rescue of Florida Inc

To assist in the medical care, misc care and rehoming of animals that do not have a home

Animals
4
From the Heart Animal Sanctuary
Animals
5
Safe Harbor Animal Sanctuary
Animals
6
Fur Ever Home Cat Sanctuary

Provide loving care & home for approx 120 Feral Cats that are in danger out in streets/unadoptable. TNR projects for feral cat colonies around Horry County. Provide Vet & medication care for animals in-house.

Animals
7
Spca of North Florida Inc
Animals
8
Spca San Pat County

The goal of the SPCA San Pat County is to maintain an animal shelter that serves the needs of the county. It serves the county and communities within that county by providing a shelter where people can adopt a homeless pet and as long as…

Animals
9
Bella View Farm Animal Sanctuary Inc
Animals
10
Boca Raton Humane Society Foundation Inc
Animals
11
J-Lo's Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in

Animal care and rescue

Animals
12
Martha's Farm Animal Sanctuary
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Sarasota County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 12 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $224,490 · OtherMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INCSARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $182,200 · OtherSARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INCSUNCOAST SCIENCE CENTER FAB LAD SARASOTA: $46,500 · OtherSUNCOAST SCIENCE CENTER FAB LAD SARASOTA+1 more: $5,000 · OtherWILDLIFE CENTER OF VENICE INC: $165,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE CENTER OF VENICE INCHONOR SANCTUARY INC: $75,000 · AnimalsHONOR SANCTUARY INCVINTAGE PAWS SANCTUARY INC: $57,500 · AnimalsVINTAGE PAWS SANCTUARY INCAnimal Rescue Coalition Inc: $27,500 · AnimalsAnimal Rescue Coalition Inc+2 more: $7,500 · AnimalsLemur Conservation Foundation Inc: $178,500 · Science & TechLemur Conservation F…Environmental Conservancy of North Port Inc: $32,500 · Environment
Other$458,190Animals$332,500Science & Tech$178,500Environment$32,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $224,490 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $182,200 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetLemur Conservation Foundation Inc: $178,500 over 8y, 18% of budgetWILDLIFE CENTER OF VENICE INC: $165,000 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetHONOR SANCTUARY INC: $75,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetVINTAGE PAWS SANCTUARY INC: $57,500 over 7y, 7.3% of budgetEnvironmental Conservancy of North Port Inc: $32,500 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetAnimal Rescue Coalition Inc: $27,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSARASOTA AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSHELTER FARM SANCTUARY CORP: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% 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 MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
  • Who funds SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Lemur Conservation Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds WILDLIFE CENTER OF VENICE INC ↗
  • Who funds HONOR SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds VINTAGE PAWS SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds Environmental Conservancy of North Port Inc ↗
  • Who funds Animal Rescue Coalition Inc ↗
  • Who funds SARASOTA AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Humane Society of Sarasota County Inc ↗
  • Who funds SHELTER FARM SANCTUARY CORP ↗

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 …The Louis and Gloria …The Arthur S Karp Fam…Manatee Community Fou…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover 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 · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · The Arthur S Karp Family Foundation Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Animal Rescue Coalition Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
1report 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.

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-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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