· Private foundation
Sarasota Community Fdn
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAMARITAN COUNSELING SERVICES GULF COAST | $10,000 |
| FORTY CARROTS OF SARASOTA INC | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY HAVEN ADULTS CHILDREN DISAB | $10,000 |
| PINES OF SARASOTA FOUNDATION INC | $7,500 |
| TIDEWELL FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC | $5,000 |
| NEURO CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN FIRST INC | $5,000 |
| SECOND CHANCE LAST OPPORTUNITY INC | $5,000 |
| CONSERVATION FOUND OF THE GULF COAST INC | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–23, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 36% 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 +53% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
SAMARITAN COUNSELING SERVICES OF THE GULF COAST INC6× · 2018–2025 · $43k · revenue +162%- FCForty Carrots of Sarasota Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $42k · revenue +124%
Children First Inc4× · 2018–2025 · $30k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- FCFLORIDA'S CHILDREN FIRST INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +48%
- CFCHILDREN FIRST INCone grant, 2021 · $10k
- THTIDEWELL HOSPICE INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +10%
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.
See schedule o for a complete description of the organization's mission
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…
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…
Suncoast hospice's mission is to be the center to improve life for those touched by advanced illness, death, dying, grief, bereavement and other end-of-life issues.
The Organization's mission is to empower families in making their transition from homelessness to sustainable independence.
Inspired by jewish values, we protect the vulnerable, empower individuals and strengthen families. (continued on schedule o)
The mission of the child protection center, inc. is the prevention, intervention and treatment of child abuse. we envision a community where children are safe from abuse and free to thrive. to successfully address the issue of child abuse,…
Mental health community centers provides a safe environment, promoting wellness, for individuals managing mental health.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
To be the leader in providing safety, stability, and quality of life for all children by working with the community to strengthen the family unit.
To empower individuals of all ages and abilities and their families through comprehensive intervention and disability services promoting growth and belonging.
Child and Family Service of Saginaw County is a social work agency dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in our community by fostering personal growth, emotional development, recovery from trauma, self- reliance, and healthy…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Forty Carrots of Sarasota Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blue Backyard Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 38 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 SAMARITAN COUNSELING SERVICES OF THE GULF COAST INC ↗
- Who funds Forty Carrots of Sarasota Inc ↗
- Who funds Children First Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S GUARDIAN FUND ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SARASOTA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PINES OF SARASOTA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TIDEWELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Dreams Inc ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds CAT DEPOT ↗
- Who funds SENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA'S CHILDREN FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS HELPING MOTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ASSISTED AND SUPPORTED LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE - LAST OPPORTUNITY ↗
- Who funds BLUE BACKYARD INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc ↗
- Who funds NEURO CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY SERVICES OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds INSTRIDE THERAPY INC ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds Adventure for All Corporation ↗
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 · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · Wilson - Wood Foundation Inc · Msc Foundation Inc · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Harry Sudakoff Foundation Inc · Bank of America Client Foundation · Roberta Leventhal Sudakoff Foundation 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 Sarasota Community Fdn 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.
- Children First Inc — 100% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc — 67% of income from government
- Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — 23% of income from government
- Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc — 12% of income from government
- Community Assisted and Supported Living Inc — 7% of income from government
- Cat Depot — 0% of income from government
- Tidewell Hospice 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.