· Private foundation
The Gardener Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $191k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+4 grants · $3.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000,000 |
| SARASOTA ORCHESTRA | $800,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA | $300,000 |
| VISIBLE MEN ACADEMY | $250,000 |
| LITERACY OUTREACH OF GARFIELD COUNTY | $230,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BELLPORT | $150,000 |
| SARASOTA ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION | $115,000 |
| LITERACY COUNCIL OF SARASOTA | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA | $100,000 |
| SARASOTA OPERA | $100,000 |
| BIG WATERS LAND TRUST | $100,000 |
| LONG ISLAND CARES | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $50,000 |
| STONY BROOK FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $506k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
41 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 7 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SBSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +80%
- VMVISIBLE MEN ACADEMY INC4× · 2021–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +1%
Rocky Mountain Institute3× · 2021–2024 · $700k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- ASARCHITECTURE SARASOTA INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $135k · revenue +209% · 38% of their budget
- WWOR2WOWone grant, 2024 · $35k
- RFROTARY FUTURES PROGRAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +32% · 27% 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.
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.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
To provide educational displays and information on art in our area and to provide scholarships.
The advancement of marine and environmental sciences through scientific research, education and public outreach, leading new discoveries, revitalization and sustainability of our oceans and greater public understanding of our marine…
To create and sustain a vibrant performing arts center, advance education, and enrich communities by inspiring minds through the power of the arts.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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…
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
Building on the foundation of the world's longest-running study of a wild dolphin population, the sarasota dolphin research program improves the lives of dolphins through: 1) research on dolphins in the wild to better understand how they…
To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 66 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VISIBLE MEN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds Big Waters Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF SARASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE BELLPORT AREA INC ↗
- Who funds Long Island Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds ARCHITECTURE SARASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLENEWSRQ INC ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY FUTURES PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BELLPORT BAY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds VIA NOVA CHORALE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Lawton W Fitt & James I McLaren Foundation · David Schwartz Foundation Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gardener Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gardener Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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