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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $334,605, the rows itemized in this filing. The $458,880 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $124,275 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
HARVEST TABERNACLE OF SARASOTA DBA HARVEST HOUSE TRANSITIONAL CENTERS$10,000
ST MARTHA CATHOLIC SCHOOL$10,000
LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR SARASOTA COUNTY INC$10,000
ST JUDE CATHOLIC CHURCH$10,000
LAUREL CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC$10,000
RESURRECTION HOUSE INC$7,478
DREAMERS ACADEMY INC$5,016
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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%
+28%

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
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.

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

  • TIDEWELL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -30%
  • VT
    VENICE THEATRE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +6%
  • VH
    VENICE HERITAGE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $55k · revenue -50% · 56% of their budget
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca of Southwest Florida Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
42/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ServicesSECOND CHANCE - LAST OPPORTUNITY: $10,000 · Human ServicesPURPOSE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTIDEWELL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVENICE THEATRE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.5% 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 budgetFriends of the Venice Public Library Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetDEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetChildren First Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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 budgetVENICE AREA MOBILE MEALS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE ACADEMY AT GLENGARY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSECOND CHANCE - LAST OPPORTUNITY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetSERTOMA KIDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Community Foundation Trust of Sarasota County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Community Foundation Trust of Sarasota County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 350%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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