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The Community Foundation Trust of Sarasota County

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$459k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$130k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Philanthropy$8.6MFood & Nutrition$679kArts & Culture$338kHealth$337kEducation$196kHuman Services$139kInternational$62kEnvironment$32kYouth Development$30kOther$884k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 12 grants below total $334,605 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $458,880 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $124,275 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 $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $111k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $211k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC$130,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY INC$81,011
COMBAT WOUNDED VETERAN'S CHALLENGE INC$25,000
MEALS ON WHEELS OF SARASOTA INC$23,100
REBUILDING TOGETHER TAMPA BAY INC$13,000
LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY INC$10,000
HARVEST TABERNACLE OF SARASOTA DBA HARVEST HOUSE TRANSITIONAL CENTERS$10,000
ST JUDE CATHOLIC CHURCH$10,000
ST MARTHA CATHOLIC SCHOOL$10,000
LAUREL CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC$10,000
RESURRECTION HOUSE INC$7,478
DREAMERS ACADEMY INC$5,016
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 (FY20–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LIVING BREAD SOUP KITCHEN INC: $13k → 19%LIVING BREAD SOUP KITCHEN INC: $10k → 19%COMBAT WOUNDED VETERAN'S CHALLENGE INC: $25k → 12%PURPOSE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $10k → 9%INCLUSION REVOLUTION INC: $7k → 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.

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 20 repeat orgs$787k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
43

Total granted

$1.9M
$727k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+24%

Still filing today

85%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther

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

  • ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $593k · revenue +150%
  • Meals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $227k · revenue +181%
  • YMCA OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC
    2× · 2017–2024 · $141k · revenue +173%

Funded once

  • VT
    VENICE THEATRE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +6%
  • TIDEWELL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • VH
    VENICE HERITAGE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $55k · revenue -50% · 56% of their budget

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
Sarasota City Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
2
Venice Mainstreet Inc

Venice mainstreet is committed to preserving and enhancing a quality environment in downtown venice, fl for present and future generations through organized volunteer efforts by focusing on its historic character and economic vitality

Community Improvement
3
Suncoast Charities for Children Inc

Suncoast charities for children is a 501(c)(3)organization that provides direct financial support to several local non-profit agencies offering programs and services to children, teen and adults with special needs throughout sarasota,…

Housing & Shelter
4
Community News Collaborative Inc

Our team of watchdog and investigative journalists deliver depth not by generating daily headlines but by strategically focusing our reporting power where we can get maximum impact. we will do this in several ways: original journalism: we…

Education
5
Suncoast Partnership to End Homelessness

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…

Human Services
6
2-1-1 Suncoast Inc

None

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7
Suncoast Workforce Board Inc

The organization's mission is to identify and invest in workforce development solutions to meet the needs of manatee and sarasota counties.

Employment
8
Sfmv Inc

To create social opportunity for residents & visitors to gather/interact, bring foot traffic to downtown sarasota, sustain economic viability of downtown area,& highlight not-for-profits benefiting sarasota.

Food & Nutrition
9
Women's Resource Center of Sarasota Inc

The center is dedicated to improving and maintaining the quality of life for all women of sarasota county by providing an environment that fosters the open exchange of ideas and ideals and providing the suppport for the attainment of…

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10
Sarasota Academy of the Arts Inc

The mission of sarasota academy of the arts (saa) is to provide a motivating, challenging, and creative learning climate with a safe, caring, family atmosphere. saa will provide students interested in visual and performing arts with…

Education
11
Art Center Sarasota Inc

To provide sarasota with opportunities for creative expression and art appreciation through art education, exhibitions and cultural programs.

Arts & Culture
12
Sarasota Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc

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

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca of Southwest Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marrow Mates Incorporated. 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 backsteadyRegional Business ChambersService Clubs and Civic Org…Hospice and End-of-Life CareSenior Housing & ServicesAffordable Senior HousingVeterans Service Organizati…Performing Arts Venues & Or…Youth Sports ProgramsCoastal Conservation & Recr…Independent K-12 SchoolsSailing and Yacht ClubsLocal History & Cultural Or…
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 number24%6%<5yr17%10%5–10yr21%23%10–20yr17%14%20–35yr11%27%35–55yr11%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr17%1%5–10yr21%3%10–20yr17%2%20–35yr11%91%35–55yr11%3%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/70
the rest of the field
15%
602/4,144

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

59 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. 59 of the 70 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
41/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC — $8,554,243 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC+1 more — $62,500 · PhilanthropyMeals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc — $226,713 · OtherMeals on W…YMCA OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $141,000 · OtherYMCA OF SO…MARROW MATES INCORPORATED — $75,000 · OtherMARROW MAT…LAUREL CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC — $63,500 · OtherLAUREL CIV…ST JUDE PARISH IN SARASOTA INC — $62,500 · OtherST JUDE PA…SENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC — $53,000 · OtherHARVEST TABERNACLE OF SARASOTA INC — $37,361 · OtherVENICE HISTORIC PRESERVATION LEAGUE INC — $36,000 · OtherUNIDOSNOW INC — $62,000 · OtherUNIDOSNOW …+24 more — $250,765 · Other+24 moreALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC — $592,500 · Food & NutritionSOUTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC — $76,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $10,000 · Food & NutritionVENICE THEATRE INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureVENICE ART CENTER — $95,000 · Arts & CultureVENICE HERITAGE INC — $55,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of the Venice Public Library Inc — $50,000 · Arts & CultureFLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $23,275 · Arts & CultureTIDEWELL FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · HealthSafe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — $61,600 · HealthSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $61,000 · HealthDEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthEaster Seals Southwest Florida Inc — $15,000 · Health+6 more — $49,571 · HealthLIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY INC — $78,140 · EducationChildren First Inc — $50,000 · EducationVISIBLE MEN ACADEMY INC — $35,000 · EducationHERSHORIN SCHIFF DAY SCHOOLS OF TOMORROW INC — $19,750 · EducationTHE PAYTON WRIGHT FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · EducationFLORIDA WINEFEST AND AUCTION INC — $57,000 · Human ServicesCOMBAT WOUNDED VETERAN CHALLENGE INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesLIVING BREAD SOUP KITCHEN INC — $22,500 · Human ServicesPURPOSE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesSECOND CHANCE - LAST OPPORTUNITY — $10,000 · Human ServicesRESURRECTION HOUSE INC — $7,478 · Human ServicesINCLUSION REVOLUTION INC — $7,400 · Human Services
Philanthropy$8,616,743Other$1,007,839Food & Nutrition$678,500Arts & Culture$338,275Health$337,171Education$195,890Human Services$139,378

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC — $8,554,243 over 9y, 13% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC — $592,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc — $226,713 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetYMCA OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $141,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVENICE THEATRE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTIDEWELL FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVENICE ART CENTER — $95,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetLIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY INC — $78,140 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetSOUTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC — $76,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetMARROW MATES INCORPORATED — $75,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetLAUREL CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC — $63,500 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetGULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $62,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIDOSNOW INC — $62,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetSafe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — $61,600 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $61,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFLORIDA WINEFEST AND AUCTION INC — $57,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetVENICE HERITAGE INC — $55,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetSENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC — $53,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetChildren First Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of the Venice Public Library Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetDEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVISIBLE MEN ACADEMY INC — $35,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetVENICE AREA BEAUTIFICATION INC — $31,500 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetLIVING BREAD SOUP KITCHEN INC — $22,500 over 2y, 24% of budgetHERSHORIN SCHIFF DAY SCHOOLS OF TOMORROW INC — $19,750 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetForty Carrots of Sarasota Inc — $19,039 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEaster Seals Southwest Florida Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER GREATER FLORIDA INC — $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVENICE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC — $11,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetSARASOTA CREW INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPURPOSE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBEYOND THE SPECTRUM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND CHANCE - LAST OPPORTUNITY — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetVENICE AREA MOBILE MEALS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSERTOMA KIDS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE ACADEMY AT GLENGARY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSUNSHINE COMMUNITY COMPOST INC — $9,765 over 1y, 21% of budgetCENTERPLACE HEALTH INC — $9,420 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $9,075 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRANSITION SARASOTA INC — $8,500 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE PAYTON WRIGHT FOUNDATION INC — $8,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE PLAYERS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRESURRECTION HOUSE INC — $7,478 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINCLUSION REVOLUTION INC — $7,400 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSARASOTA JEWISH THEATRE INC — $6,700 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC — $6,500 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.

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 Foundat…Gulf Coast Community …William G and Marie S…Charles & Margery Bar…Manatee Community Fou…The Louis and Gloria …Msc Foundation IncWilson - Wood Foundat…Seidman Family Founda…United Way Suncoast I…Publix Super Markets …Harry Sudakoff Founda…
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL98.5× affinity52 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 · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · Msc Foundation Inc · Wilson - Wood Foundation Inc · Seidman Family Foundation · United Way Suncoast Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Harry Sudakoff 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 Community Foundation Trust of Sarasota County 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 350%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Children First Inc — 100% of income from government
  • The Roskamp Institute Inc — 77% 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
  • Purpose House Ministries Inc — 2% of income from government
  • All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Venice Theatre Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
35get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 70 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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