· Public charity
The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee Inc
To strengthen jewish life and identity in our community, provide for jewish people in need and promote support for israel.
Read this first · the figures below need context
63% of The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Jewish Federations Of North America Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 36 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee Inc named its own grantees at scale: 30 organizations, $982k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 33 grants below total $982,176 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,178,912 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $196,736 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k7 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $534k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $397k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA | $162,733 |
| JFCS OF THE SUNCOAST | $159,392 |
| NAMI SARASOTA AND MANATEE COUNTIES INC | $75,000 |
| EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES INC | $48,750 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC | $47,700 |
| THE JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL | $47,500 |
| NEVE MICHAEL CHILDREN'S VILLAGE | $45,000 |
| RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC | $40,000 |
| ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK | $38,560 |
| HERSHORIN SCHIFF COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL | $25,500 |
| TICKETS FOR KIDS CHARITIES | $25,000 |
| AMERICA GIVES INC | $21,000 |
| JEWISH HOUSING COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC | $20,400 |
| CHABAD OF VENICE & NORTH PORT | $19,888 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $19,150 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% 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 +44% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2023, 41 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +10%- HSHERSHORIN SCHIFF DAY SCHOOLS OF TOMORROW INC8× · 2017–2024 · $682k · revenue +174%
ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $548k · revenue +150%
Funded once
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGOone grant, 2017 · $53k · revenue +13%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $37k · revenue +206%
- COCONFERENCE OF JEWISH AFFAIRS INCone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +738% · 54% of their budget
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 strengthen jewish life and identity in our community, provide for jewish people in need and promote support for israel.
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.
The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
The principal and primary intent of the organization is to support kohelet policy forum (the "forum"), a jerusalem-based non-profit policy center founded in 2012, comprised of leading academics and researchers.
To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lee & Bob Peterson Foundation Inc Dba Sunshine From Darkness. 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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
103 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. 103 of the 119 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
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 JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc ↗
- Who funds HERSHORIN SCHIFF DAY SCHOOLS OF TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOUSING COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Neve Michael Childrens Village Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds TICKETS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAMI SARASOTA AND MANATEE COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE DANIEL CENTERS FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON TERRORISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA ↗
- Who funds Lightshare Behavioral Wellness & Recovery Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAMSUNCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds COASTAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra ↗
- Who funds CLARION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
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: Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · Msc Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Arthur S Karp Family Foundation Inc · The Tillie Jennie & Harold Schwartz Foundation Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Center for Faith and Freedom 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 Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee 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
- Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc — 67% of income from government
- Selah Freedom Inc — 53% 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
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Lightshare Behavioral Wellness & Recovery Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens 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
- Florida Studio Theatre 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.