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Sarasota Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc

Advancement of and development of tourism and the service of the tourism industry within the county of sarasota, florida

$360k
Granted FY2022
9
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of SARASOTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2022 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $114k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $220k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATHAN BENDERSON PARK CONSERVANCY INC$120,000
POWERBOAT P1 USA LLC$100,000
FOX LEA FARM INC$48,231
USROWING$34,500
UNITED STATES DRAGON BOAT FEDERATION$20,000
FLORIDA SCHOLASTIC ROWING ASSOCIATION$10,906
SOCCER SKILLS FL INC$9,808
SARASOTA SHARKS INC$6,324
HAVOC SPORTS INC$5,488
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YMCA - SARASOTA FAMILY YMCA INC: $21k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
MA
OH
NJ
CA
CO
MD
AZ
TN
NC
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 32 repeat orgs$634k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2022, 25 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
37

Total granted

$2.1M
$603k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+37%

Still filing today

50%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Recreation & SportsArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther

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

  • SC
    SUNCOAST CHARITIES FOR CHILDREN INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $300k · revenue +154% · 54% of their budget
  • US
    UNITED STATES ROWING ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2017–2022 · $62k · revenue +91%
  • UV
    USA VOLLEYBALL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $41k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CONCESSION GOLD CLUB LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $200k
  • BR
    BRITISH ROWING LTD
    one grant, 2017 · $33k
  • TC
    THE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +101%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Florida High School Athletic Association Inc

Operation, promotion, direction, supervision, and regulation of interscholastic athletics of member high schools in florida.

2
Usa Artistic Swimming

Appointed as the governing body by the us olympic committee, our mission is to provide leadership and resources for the promotion growth of synchronized swimming and to achieve competitive excellence at all levels and to develop broad…

3
Sarasota County Rowing Club Inc

Promote national and international competition and rowing, educate new rowers, and provide adaptive rowing opportunities for partially disabled persons and veterans.

Recreation & Sports
4
Florida State Golf Association Inc

To preserve and protect the great game of golf and its honorable traditions for the future generations.

Recreation & Sports
5
Palm Beach County Sports Commission

The palm beach sports commission develops tourism throughout sports activities. the commission promotes the county as a tourist destination and supports sports events that increases bed tax revenues, enhance economic impact and maximizes…

Youth Development
6
Sarasota Yacht Club

The world-class, award winning sarasota yacht club is home to a diverse membership and professional staff who inspire lifelong friendships and extraordinary experiences in our culturally-rich waterfront city.

7
United States Sailing Association Inc

The organizations mission is to increase sailing participation and excellence through education, competition, and equal opportunity while upholding the principles of fair play, sportsmanship, and safety.

Recreation & Sports
8
Tampa Bay United Inc

See Schedule O.The mission of Tampa Bay United Soccer Club is to create an environment that maximizes the holistic development of the athlete through our values of Integrity, Commitment, Respect, Adaptability, Passion, and Creativity. We…

Recreation & Sports
9
United States Baseball Federation Inc

To foster the growth of amateur baseball in the united states and to organize national and international baseball competitions.

10
Tampa Bay Sports Commission Inc

Our mission is to generate social and economic impact throughout the tampa bay region by attracting, promoting and/or organizing youth and amateur sporting events and initiatives.

Recreation & Sports
11
United States Youth Soccer Association Inc

To foster the physical, mental, and emotional growth and development of america's youth through the sport of soccer at all levels of age and competition.

Recreation & Sports
12
Arizona Soccer Association

It is the mission of asa to foster the physical, mental, and emotional growth and development of the state of arizonas youth through the sport of soccer at all levels, ages, and competition levels.

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florida Sports Foundation Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is The Baltimore Orioles Foundation 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLand Conservation Organizat…Education Equity LeadershipGovernment Accountability R…Community Arts OrganizationsPublic University Foundatio…Professional Ballet Compani…Youth Sports Booster Organi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%0%<5yr16%10%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr15%29%20–35yr9%36%35–55yr12%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%0%<5yr16%5%5–10yr20%38%10–20yr15%37%20–35yr9%17%35–55yr12%4%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/69
the rest of the field
17%
17,089/102,975

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.

04the grantee network

34 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 71 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/34
Grantees still filing
28/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FOX LEA FARM INC — $312,169 · OtherFOX LEA FARM INCPOWERBOAT P1 USA LLC — $200,000 · OtherPOWERBOAT P1 USA LLCTHE CONCESSION GOLD CLUB LLC — $200,000 · OtherTHE CONCESSION GOLD CLUB LLCTHE MALL AT UNIVERSITY TOWN CENTER — $160,212 · OtherTHE MALL AT UNIVERSITY TOWN CENTERAMERICAN BICYCLE ASSOCIATION — $84,005 · OtherPREMIER SPORTS CAMPUS — $70,575 · OtherUNITED STATES ROWING ASSOCIATION — $61,833 · Other+40 more — $641,450 · Other+40 moreNATHAN BENDERSON PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $325,329 · Recreation & SportsNATHAN BENDERSON PARK …USA VOLLEYBALL — $41,000 · Recreation & SportsUSA VOLLEYBALLSARASOTA SHARKS INC — $23,657 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES DRAGON BOAT FEDERATION — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsSARASOTA LAWN BOWLING CLUB INC — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES SOCCER FEDERATION — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE INC — $18,500 · Recreation & Sports+7 more — $68,318 · Recreation & Sports+7 moreSUNCOAST CHARITIES FOR CHILDREN INC — $300,000 · Housing & ShelterSUNCOAST CHA…THE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC — $25,000 · EducationUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc — $18,830 · EducationLEMON BAY SUNRISE ROTARY COMMUNITY TRUST — $15,000 · EducationARTS & CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF SARASOTA COUNTY INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureSarasota Ballet of Florida Inc — $7,000 · Arts & CultureASOLO THEATRE INC — $6,000 · Arts & CultureFLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureENGLEWOOD BEACH WATERFEST INC — $25,000 · EnvironmentSAFE CHILDREN COALITION INC — $20,675 · Human Services
Other$1,730,244Recreation & Sports$536,804Housing & Shelter$300,000Education$58,830Arts & Culture$33,000Environment$25,000Human Services$20,675

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATHAN BENDERSON PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $325,329 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetSUNCOAST CHARITIES FOR CHILDREN INC — $300,000 over 3y, 54% of budgetUNITED STATES ROWING ASSOCIATION — $61,833 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUSA VOLLEYBALL — $41,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetENGLEWOOD BEACH WATERFEST INC — $25,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetTHE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSARASOTA SHARKS INC — $23,657 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSAFE CHILDREN COALITION INC — $20,675 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES DRAGON BOAT FEDERATION — $20,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetFLORIDA TOURISM INDUSTRY MARKETING CORP INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES SOCCER FEDERATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc — $18,830 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE INC — $18,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetARTS & CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF SARASOTA COUNTY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetLEMON BAY SUNRISE ROTARY COMMUNITY TRUST — $15,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetSIESTA KEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC — $15,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCHARGERS SOCCER CLUB INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUltimate Players Association — $14,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFLORIDA SOCIETY OF ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVES INC — $12,800 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFC SARASOTA INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTHWEST DISTRICT PARENTS COUNCIL INC — $7,500 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetNational Association of Sports Commissions — $7,100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSarasota Ballet of Florida Inc — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEAD-OF-THE CHARLES REGATTA INC — $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASOLO THEATRE INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP FLORIDA STATEWIDE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFLORIDA SPORTS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 NATHAN BENDERSON PARK CONSERVANCY INC
  • Who funds SUNCOAST CHARITIES FOR CHILDREN INC
  • Who funds UNITED STATES ROWING ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds USA VOLLEYBALL
  • Who funds IMG ACADEMY STUDENT-ATHLETE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ENGLEWOOD BEACH WATERFEST INC
  • Who funds THE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC
  • Who funds SARASOTA SHARKS INC
  • Who funds SAFE CHILDREN COALITION INC
  • Who funds UNITED STATES DRAGON BOAT FEDERATION
  • Who funds SARASOTA LAWN BOWLING CLUB INC
  • Who funds FLORIDA TOURISM INDUSTRY MARKETING CORP INC
  • Who funds UNITED STATES SOCCER FEDERATION
  • Who funds University of South Florida Foundation Inc
  • Who funds UNITED STATES AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE INC
  • Who funds ARTS & CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF SARASOTA COUNTY INC
  • Who funds SERTOMA CLUB OF VENICE FLORIDA INC
  • Who funds LEMON BAY SUNRISE ROTARY COMMUNITY TRUST
  • Who funds SIESTA KEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
  • Who funds CHARGERS SOCCER CLUB 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.

The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL20.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover 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 · Tarr Charitable Family Foundation Inc · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 130%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Safe Children Coalition Inc0% of income from government
  • Sarasota Sailing Squadron Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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