· Community foundation
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc
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What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 540 grants below total $41,181,411 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $44,178,439 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,997,028 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k111 grants · $778k
- $10k–50k284 grants · $5.7M
- $50k–250k116 grants · $12M
- $250k+29 grants · $23M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $4,102,690 |
| SAFE PLACE AND RAPE CRISIS CENTER (SPARCC) | $2,536,821 |
| GLASSER-SCHOENBAUM HUMAN SERVICES CENTER AKA CARING COLLECTIVE | $2,251,911 |
| MARIE SELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS INC | $1,370,368 |
| SCHOOL BOARD OF SARASOTA COUNTY | $1,227,203 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA | $1,000,000 |
| COMMUNITY COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS DBA TURNING POINTS | $954,650 |
| STEP UP SUNCOAST | $943,004 |
| UNITED WAY OF CHARLOTTE COUNTY | $824,000 |
| LONGBOAT ISLAND CHAPEL INC | $756,713 |
| MOTE MARINE LABORATORY | $561,204 |
| ST MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL CATHOLIC CHURCH | $508,925 |
| RENOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $450,000 |
| TIDEWELL FOUNDATION INC | $448,672 |
| RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN | $418,237 |
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 (FY17–25, $29.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +7% for the ones you funded once.
1032 repeat relationships — 414 still active in FY2025, 618 since wound down; 67 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M 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
- TGTHE GLASSER SCHOENBAUM HUMAN SERVICES CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $14M · revenue +109% · 98% of their budget
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $5.5M · revenue +133%
- RHRenown Health Foundation3× · 2023–2025 · $5.5M · revenue +57%
Funded once
- SCSARASOTA COUNTY SCHOOL BOARDone grant, 2017 · $537k
- SOSARASOTA ORCHESTRAone grant, 2022 · $471k
- USUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $300k · revenue +28%
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.
To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.
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To encourage, solicit, receive and administer gifts and bequests of property and funds for scientific, educational and charitable purposes, all for the advancement of florida international university and its objectives (see schedule o for…
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To create and foster economic opportunities in collaboration with community and regional partners to diversify, grow and sustain our economy while enhancing our unique, natural and cultural environment.
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The organization's mission is to identify and invest in workforce development solutions to meet the needs of manatee and sarasota counties.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Manatee Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust. 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 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
1274 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. 1274 of the 1,578 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GLASSER SCHOENBAUM HUMAN SERVICES CENTER ↗
- Who funds Community Coalition on Homelessness dba Turning Points ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds Renown Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds Step Up Suncoast Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CHARLOTTE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity Sarasota Inc ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds MANA-SOTA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra ↗
- Who funds ASOLO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds TIDEWELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Bay Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds BOOSTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of South Lake County Inc ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA HOUSING FUNDING CORP ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Sarasota County Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds THE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Opera Association 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: Manatee Community Foundation Inc · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · Msc Foundation Inc · The Tillie Jennie & Harold Schwartz Foundation Inc · Center for Faith and Freedom Inc · The Community Foundation Trust of Sarasota County · Tarr Charitable Family Foundation Inc · Sisterhood For Good Inc · United Way Suncoast 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 Community Foundation of Sarasota Co 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.
- Children First Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Roskamp Institute Inc — 77% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc — 67% of income from government
- Step Up Suncoast Inc — 63% of income from government
- Selah Freedom Inc — 53% of income from government
- Gulf Coast Partnership Inc — 28% of income from government
- Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — 23% of income from government
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
- Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc — 12% of income from government
- Child Protection Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- Community Assisted and Supported Living Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Arcadia-Desoto County Habitat for Humanity Incorporated — 5% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- United Way of South Sarasota County Inc — 2% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc — 1% of income from government
- Meals On Wheels Plus of Manatee Inc — 0% of income from government
- Safe Children Coalition Inc — 0% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Animal Rescue Coalition Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Venice Symphony Inc — 0% of income from government
- Teen Court of Sarasota Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra — 0% of income from government
- Resilient Retreat Inc — 0% of income from government
- St Anthony's Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- Venice Theatre Inc — 0% of income from government
- Cat Depot — 0% of income from government
- Florida Studio Theatre Inc — 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.