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The Burruss Foundation Ellen McLoughlin & Jeff Troiano Co-Ttees
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SARASOTA MILITARY OFFICERS ASSOCIATION | $75,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SARASOTA | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA | $25,000 |
| WEDU | $25,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $15,000 |
| THE PINES OF SARASOTA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| ST BONIFACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
PINES OF SARASOTA FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2025 · $104k · revenue +109%- SMSARASOTA MILITARY OFFICERS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +1% · 56% of their budget
ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC7× · 2018–2025 · $90k · revenue +160%
Funded once
Community Haven For Adults And Children With Disabilities Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $19k · revenue +130%
Meals on Wheels of Sarasota Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +126%- SCSummit Charter School Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +426%
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.
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 Corporation at all times shall be operated for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, and to carry out the purposes of Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida, Inc., a Florida not for profit corporation d/b/a Feeding Northeast…
The mission of the realtor association of sarasota and manatee is to advance members' professionalism through delivery of education and resources, and to advocate for real estate in the communities served.
As the areas premier no-kill shelter, the humane society of sarasota county engages the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals.
Spca florida exists to eliminate animal suffering and to engage the entire community in the welfare and well-being of animals.we accomplish this by advancing model programs to promote the adoption of healthy animals, prevent dog and cat…
Hunger relief for the indigent. The South County Food Pantry provides food to families and individuals in the Venice, Nokomis, Laurel & Osprey, areas of FL. SCFP distributes to more than 400 family units per month.
The mission of the south fort myers food pantry coalition is to feed the needy of the south fort myers area.
Aviva is a not-for-profit organization offering a full continuum of retirement rental options - from independent living to advanced care services that provide security, wellness, intellectual and spiritual fulfillment.
University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…
Our mission is to provide solutions to community challenges by engaging volunteers aged 55+. we help at-risk children, elders, adults with disabilities, caregivers, & veterans. our volunteers benefit from staying active & living with sense…
Dedicated to alleviating hunger through acquisition and distribution of food and grocery products, community education to the causes and consequences of hunger, and meaningful action on behalf of people in need of food.
Our mission is to encourage, honor and support the human-animal bond in the suncoast region of florida. our vision is to celebrate a community whose pets are safe and loved. suncoast humane society provides sheltering, prevention and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Friendship Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Summit Charter School Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 24 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ↗
- Who funds PINES OF SARASOTA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA MILITARY OFFICERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Golden Retriever Rescue of Southwest Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds SENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds Community Haven For Adults And Children With Disabilities Inc ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc ↗
- Who funds Summit Charter School Foundation ↗
- Who funds FISHES & LOAVES FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau 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: Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Harold C & Jacqueline F Bladel Foundation Declaration of Charitable Tr · Jerome & Mildred Paddock Foundation · Harry Sudakoff Foundation Inc · The Rubin Charitable Foundation Inc · The Tillie Jennie & Harold Schwartz Foundation Inc · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America 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 The Burruss Foundation Ellen McLoughlin & Jeff Troiano Co-Ttees 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.
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Harvest House Inc — 0% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs 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.
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