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Vernon G & Sandra Jc Buchanan Family Foundation at a glance

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Vernon G & Sandra Jc Buchanan Family Foundation

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.

$304k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
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$234kHuman Services$141kEnvironment$122kHealth$114kPhilanthropy$67kCivil Rights$59kYouth Development$32kCommunity Improvement$32kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $73k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SARASOTA COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS - LONGBOAT KEY LIBRARY FUND$200,000
MARIE SELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS INC$33,333
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MANATEE COUNTY INC$10,000
SARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER$10,000
MIDNIGHT PASS SOCIETY II INC$10,000
MEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE INC$10,000
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY & AQUARIUM$5,000
TIDEWELL FOUNDATION INC$5,000
VALDEZ VETERANS ALLIANCE SERVICES INC$5,000
SAMARITAN COUNSELING SERVICES OF THE GULF COAST$5,000
ETERNAL BREAD OF LIFE OUTREACH MINISTRY INC$3,000
EASTER SEALS SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC$2,500
GREATER SARASOTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION$2,000
GALATIANS 6-2 INC (OBA 180 SKATE)$1,600
LIGHT OF THE WORLD INTERNATIONAL CHURCH$1,500
02The need
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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 (FY17–23, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HELP TO HOME: $5k → 10%SARASOTA FAMILY YMCA INC: $8k → 9%TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC: $3k → 9%SARASOTA MANATEE JEWISH HOUSING COUNCIL: $10k → 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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$444k · 23 repeat orgs$478k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
31

Total granted

$444k
$250k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+14%

Still filing today

70%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $227k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentFood & 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

  • The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc
    6× · 2018–2025 · $112k · revenue +149%
  • SM
    SARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +349%
  • SAMARITAN COUNSELING SERVICES OF THE GULF COAST INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +206%

Funded once

  • OM
    ONE MORE CHILD FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • CU
    CLEARY UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +6%
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
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
2
Manatee County Historical Commission Inc

To preserve and promote manatee countys heritage and history.

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3
Jewish Housing Council Foundation Inc

The organization provides financial support to sarasota-manatee jewish housing council, inc., a not-for-profit provider of independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing and other services for elderly individuals from sarasota and…

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4
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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5
Shands Jacksonville Healthcare Inc

As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…

Health
6
The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast Inc

Suncoast hospice's mission is to be the center to improve life for those touched by advanced illness, death, dying, grief, bereavement and other end-of-life issues.

Human Services
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
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
9
Manatee County Habitat for Humanity

In partnership with god, manatee county habitat develops resources, educates, and mobilizes people to work alongside families in need, rehabilitating existing homes and building sustainable, affordable homes, thereby improving the quality…

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10
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc

Sarasota memorial healthcare foundation is the philanthropic partner that helps sarasota memorial health care system bring world-class care to our community.

Health
11
Suncoast Humane Societyinc

Our mission is to encourage, honor and support the human-animal bond in the suncoast region of florida. our vision is to celebrate a community whose pets are safe and loved. suncoast humane society provides sheltering, prevention and…

Animals
12
Flagler Health Care Foundation Inc

The organization's mission is to support uf health promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Manatee Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Eternal Bread of Life Outreach Ministry Inc. 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

43 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. 43 of the 63 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
30/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SARASOTA COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS - LONGBOAT KEY LIBRARY FUND: $200,000 · OtherSARASOTA COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS - LONGBOAT KEY LIBR…ONE MORE CHILD FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · OtherONE MORE CHILD FOUNDATION INCCOEXISTENCE INC EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES: $50,000 · OtherCOEXISTENCE INC EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCESUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $25,000 · OtherMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $23,000 · OtherEASTER SEALS SW FLORIDA INC: $20,000 · Other+33 more: $135,050 · Other+33 moreTHE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC: $50,000 · HealthTHE BOGGY CREE…SARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $30,000 · HealthSARASOTA MEDIC…Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc: $22,500 · HealthEaster Seals S…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: $8,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FO…TIDEWELL FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · HealthTIDEWELL FOUND…Care Net Manasota Crisis Pregnancy Center Inc: $5,500 · HealthThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $111,666 · EnvironmentThe Marie Selb…THE MIDNIGHT PASS SOCIETY II INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE MIDNIGHT P…GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 · PhilanthropySAMARITAN COUNSELING SERVICES OF THE GULF COAST INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyMANATEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · PhilanthropySHUCKIN GOOD CAUSE FUND: $2,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MANATEE COUNTYINC: $21,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Police Athletic League of Manatee County Inc: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC: $5,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentSARASOTA-MANATEE JEWISH HOUSING COUNCIL INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSAFE CHILDREN COALITION INC: $8,400 · Human ServicesHelp To Home Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesSELAH FREEDOM INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTIDEWELL HOSPICE INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesGREATER SARASOTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 · Community ImprovementFLORIDA HOUSE WASHINGTON DC INC: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$553,050Health$123,500Environment$121,666Philanthropy$62,000Youth Development$37,000Human Services$30,900Community Improvement$28,000

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 Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $111,666 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC: $50,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetGULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN COUNSELING SERVICES OF THE GULF COAST INC: $25,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEaster Seals Southwest Florida Inc: $22,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MANATEE COUNTYINC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER SARASOTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetCLEARY UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSARASOTA-MANATEE JEWISH HOUSING COUNCIL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA HOUSE WASHINGTON DC INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT PASS SOCIETY II INC: $10,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetHURRICANE CHAMPIONS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetThe Police Athletic League of Manatee County Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSAFE CHILDREN COALITION INC: $8,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIDEWELL FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMANATEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEternal Bread of Life Outreach Ministry Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetCare Net Manasota Crisis Pregnancy Center Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCommunity Coalition on Homelessness dba Turning Points: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHelp To Home Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBISHOP MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND NATURE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSELAH FREEDOM INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LEGACY TRAIL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSHUCKIN GOOD CAUSE FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTIDEWELL HOSPICE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Sarasota County Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA VETERANS FOR COMMON SENSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF MANATEE COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISIBLE MEN ACADEMY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL CLUB MUSEUM AND FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF SARASOTA COUNTY: $500 over 1y, 0.4% 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 …Manatee Community Fou…The Louis and Gloria …The Mary Parker Found…The Tillie Jennie & H…Msc Foundation IncCharles & Margery Bar…Annette J Hagens Memo…Wilson - Wood Foundat…Tarr Charitable Famil…Rotary Club of Lakewo…
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL56.5× affinity27 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 · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · The Mary Parker Foundation 157823-000 · The Tillie Jennie & Harold Schwartz Foundation Inc · Msc Foundation Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Annette J Hagens Memorial Foundation · Wilson - Wood Foundation Inc · Tarr Charitable Family Foundation Inc · Rotary Club of Lakewood Ranch

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 Vernon G & Sandra Jc Buchanan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vernon G & Sandra Jc Buchanan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 230%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Selah Freedom Inc: 53% of income from government
  • Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Bishop Museum of Science and Nature Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Pace Center for Girlsinc: 2% of income from government
  • All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Meals On Wheels Plus of Manatee Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Safe Children Coalition Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Tidewell Hospice Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
23get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 63 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-PF 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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