Who are The Community Foundation Trust of Sarasota County's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: All Faiths Food Bank Inc ($593k), Meals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc ($227k), YMCA of Southwest Florida Inc ($141k).

Does The Community Foundation Trust of Sarasota County fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Community Foundation Trust of Sarasota County?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc, Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc, William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc.

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The Community Foundation Trust of Sarasota County

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$459k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 12
Itemized grants FY2025: 14
Organizations funded FY2024: 36%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $335k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $130,000
Organizations funded a year: 13 to 19; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $15M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 36% of the organizations The Community Foundation Trust of Sarasota County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	11	$254k	45%
FY2024	14	$433k	36%
FY2023	16	$307k	44%
FY2022	19	$287k	47%
FY2021	13	$317k	38%
FY2020	13	$252k	46%
FY2019	15	$272k	33%
FY2018	19	$329k	58%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$8.3MFood & Nutrition$951kPhilanthropy$484kHealth$395kArts & Culture$324kHuman Services$256kReligion$128kInternational$112kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
All Faiths Food Bank Inc	$592,500	9	0%
Meals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc	$226,713	9	3%
YMCA of Southwest Florida Inc	$141,000	2	0%
Tidewell Foundation Inc	$100,000	1	1%
Venice Theatre Inc	$100,000	1	2%
Venice Art Center	$95,000	2	7%
Library Foundation for Sarasota County Inc	$78,140	5	2%
South County Food Pantry Inc	$76,000	5	5%
Marrow Mates Incorporated	$75,000	2	36%
Laurel Civic Association Inc	$63,500	9	2%

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All grantees of The Community Foundation Trust of Sarasota County by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
All Faiths Food Bank Inc	$592,500	9	0%
Meals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc	$226,713	9	3%
YMCA of Southwest Florida Inc	$141,000	2	0%
Tidewell Foundation Inc	$100,000	1	1%
Venice Theatre Inc	$100,000	1	2%
Venice Art Center	$95,000	2	7%
Library Foundation for Sarasota County Inc	$78,140	5	2%
South County Food Pantry Inc	$76,000	5	5%
Marrow Mates Incorporated	$75,000	2	36%
Laurel Civic Association Inc	$63,500	9	2%
St Jude Parish in Sarasota Inc	$62,500	9	n/a
Unidosnow Inc	$62,000	3	7%
Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc	$61,600	5	1%
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc	$61,000	2	0%
Florida Winefest and Auction Inc	$57,000	3	22%
Venice Heritage Inc	$55,000	1	56%
Senior Friendship Centers Inc	$53,000	8	0%
Friends of the Venice Public Library Inc	$50,000	2	4%
Deborah Hospital Foundation	$50,000	1	1%
Children First Inc	$50,000	2	0%
Harvest Tabernacle of Sarasota Inc	$37,361	4	n/a
Venice Historic Preservation League Inc	$36,000	1	n/a
Visible Men Academy Inc	$35,000	1	2%
Venice Area Beautification Inc	$31,500	2	8%
Combat Wounded Veteran Challenge Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Living Bread Soup Kitchen Inc	$22,500	2	24%
Hershorin Schiff Day Schools of Tomorrow Inc	$19,750	1	1%
Forty Carrots of Sarasota Inc	$19,039	1	1%
Miss Venice Fast Pitch Inc	$18,700	1	n/a
Marrow Nation	$15,000	1	n/a
Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Florida West Coast Public Broadcasting Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Ministerio Renacer En Cristo	$13,500	2	n/a
Rebuilding Together Greater Florida Inc	$13,000	1	0%
Venice Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc	$11,000	1	29%
Saint Martha Catholic School	$10,000	1	n/a
Venice Area Mobile Meals Inc	$10,000	1	2%
The Academy at Glengary Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Second Chance - Last Opportunity	$10,000	1	2%
Connectional Council of Global Methodist Church	$10,000	1	n/a
The Diocese of Houma Thibodaux Catholic Charities Main Office	$10,000	1	n/a
Free Wheelchair Mission	$10,000	1	0%
Sarasota Crew Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Purpose House Ministries Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Beyond the Spectrum Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Sertoma Kids Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Sunshine Community Compost Inc	$9,765	1	21%
Centerplace Health Inc	$9,420	1	0%
The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art Foundation Incorporated	$9,075	1	0%
Transition Sarasota Inc	$8,500	1	16%
Volunteers of America of Florida Inc	$8,064	1	n/a
The Payton Wright Foundation Inc	$8,000	1	2%
The Warehouse of Venice Inc	$7,500	1	n/a
The Players Inc	$7,500	1	0%
Resurrection House Inc	$7,478	1	0%
Inclusion Revolution Inc	$7,400	1	4%
Sarasota Jewish Theatre Inc	$6,700	1	3%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Sarasota and Desoto Counties Inc	$6,500	1	0%
Venice-Nokomis United Methodist Church	$6,500	1	n/a
Friends of Shannon Staub Public Library Inc	$6,211	1	n/a
Riverview High School Foundation Inc	$5,970	1	4%
Mana-Sota Lighthouse for the Blind Inc	$5,151	1	0%
Dreamers Academy Inc	$5,016	1	0%
The Roskamp Institute Inc	$5,000	1	0%
United Way of Manatee County	$5,000	1	n/a
Venice Vikings Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
New College Foundation Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Sarasota Housing Funding Corp	$5,000	1	1%

The Community Foundation Trust of Sarasota County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 52 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 52.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Community Foundation Trust of Sarasota County

How much does The Community Foundation Trust of Sarasota County give?: The Community Foundation Trust of Sarasota County reported 12 itemized grants totaling $334,605, out of $458,880 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Community Foundation Trust of Sarasota County fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (73%), Food & Nutrition (8%), Philanthropy (4%).
Who are The Community Foundation Trust of Sarasota County's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: All Faiths Food Bank Inc ($593k), Meals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc ($227k), YMCA of Southwest Florida Inc ($141k).
Does The Community Foundation Trust of Sarasota County fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Community Foundation Trust of Sarasota County?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc, Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc, William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc.
Where is The Community Foundation Trust of Sarasota County based?: The Community Foundation Trust of Sarasota County is based in FL.