· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of VERNON G & SANDRA JC BUCHANAN FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $73k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE INC | $10,000 |
| SARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER | $10,000 |
| MIDNIGHT PASS SOCIETY II 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 |
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 (FY17–23, $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. 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.
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 +74% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $227k 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
The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc6× · 2018–2025 · $112k · revenue +149%- SMSARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER INC6× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +289%
SAMARITAN COUNSELING SERVICES OF THE GULF COAST INC7× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +206%
Funded once
- OMONE MORE CHILD FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $100k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDAone grant, 2023 · $25k
- CUCLEARY UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +6%
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.
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…
To preserve and promote manatee countys heritage and history.
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…
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,…
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…
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.
The organization's mission is to identify and invest in workforce development solutions to meet the needs of manatee and sarasota counties.
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…
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…
Sarasota memorial healthcare foundation is the philanthropic partner that helps sarasota memorial health care system bring world-class care to our community.
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Manatee Community Foundation Inc and 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.
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 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 63 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 Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN COUNSELING SERVICES OF THE GULF COAST INC ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MANATEE COUNTYINC ↗
- Who funds GREATER SARASOTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLEARY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA HOUSE WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE INC ↗
- Who funds The Police Athletic League of Manatee County Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT PASS SOCIETY II INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA-MANATEE JEWISH HOUSING COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HURRICANE CHAMPIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE CHILDREN COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds MANATEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TIDEWELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Eternal Bread of Life Outreach Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds Care Net Manasota Crisis Pregnancy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SELAH FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LEGACY TRAIL INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds Help To Home Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Coalition on Homelessness dba Turning Points ↗
- Who funds BISHOP MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND NATURE INC ↗
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: 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
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 Vernon G & Sandra Jc Buchanan Family Foundation 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.
- 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
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.