· Private foundation
William G and Marie Selby Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- $10k–50k15 grants · $363k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $841k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY | $250,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA COUNTY | $250,000 |
| GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SARASOTA BAYFRONT PLANNING ORGANIZATION | $100,000 |
| CHILDREN FIRST INC | $77,000 |
| FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INC | $75,604 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF SARASOTA INC | $75,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY | $75,000 |
| ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK | $73,100 |
| VENICE CHALLENGER BASEBALL INC | $65,473 |
| VENICE AREA BEAUTIFICATION INC | $50,000 |
| FLORIDA WEST COAST SYMPHONY | $50,000 |
| PINES OF SARASOTA FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| ASOLO THEATRE INC | $50,000 |
| CROWLEY MUSEUM AND NATURE CENTER | $38,877 |
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 (FY20–20, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
Advancement of and development of tourism and the service of the tourism industry within the county of sarasota, florida
To present internationally renowed orchestras, chamber ensembles and solo artists to the greater sarasota community, and to showcase outstanding regional musicians in a series of free public concerts.
Sarasota Opera produces impassioned opera performances true to the vision of the composer, to entertain, enrich, educate, and inspire a life-long love of opera in our diverse and growing communities.
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 educate medical professionals and the public the importance of early detection and prevention of cardiovascular disease.
Scope connects and inspires citizens to create a better community.
Gulf coast partnership, inc. (the organization) mission is to prevent homelessness in charlotte county. the organization is a department of hud lead agency on homelessness in the state of florida. the organization is funded through a…
To create and foster economic opportunities in collaboration with community and regional partners to diversify, grow and sustain our economy while enhancing our unique, natural and cultural environment.
Preserving our gardens and historic landmarks while promoting the environment, conservation and civic beautification through education and programs.
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,…
To provide educational displays and information on art in our area and to provide scholarships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teen Court of Sarasota Inc and the most unlike its peers is Prospect Riding Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
27 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.
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Bay Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds Children First Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FLORIDA CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Sarasota Inc ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds VENICE CHALLENGER BASEBALL ↗
- Who funds PINES OF SARASOTA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASOLO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra ↗
- Who funds VENICE AREA BEAUTIFICATION INC ↗
- Who funds CROWLEY MUSEUM AND NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOVELAND CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF MANASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT RIDING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA B ANDES VOLUNTEER COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Gulf Coast Heritage Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Military Heritage Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds BOCILLA ISLANDS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA-BRADENTON PROJECT GUIDE RIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds MANA-SOTA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds TEEN COURT OF SARASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY 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 · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · The Tillie Jennie & Harold Schwartz Foundation Inc · Msc Foundation Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Jerome & Mildred Paddock Foundation · Roberta Leventhal Sudakoff Foundation Inc · Wilson - Wood Foundation Inc · Swift Family Foundation 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 William G and Marie Selby 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.
- Children First Inc — 100% of income from government
- Military Heritage Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Legal Aid of Manasota Inc — 2% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Teen Court of Sarasota Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra — 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.
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