· Public charity
Woman's Exchange Inc of Sarasota
Through the proceeds of a consignment business, provide financial support to local visual and performing arts organizations and programs, and to students in the visual and performing arts.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 21 grants below total $379,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $581,792 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $202,292 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $300k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASOLO THEATRE INC | $50,000 |
| KEY CHORALE | $35,000 |
| FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC | $30,000 |
| WEST COAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE | $30,000 |
| RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN | $30,000 |
| SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FDN | $25,000 |
| SARASOTA ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| SARASOTA OPERA | $20,000 |
| SARASOTA BALLET OF FLORIDA INC | $20,000 |
| SUNCAOST BLACK ARTS COLLAB INC | $15,000 |
| THE PLAYERS | $15,000 |
| SARASOTA POPS ORCHESTRA INC | $15,000 |
| EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES INC | $10,000 |
| CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC | $10,000 |
| ARTS CENTER SARASOTA INC | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 22% of your 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 +31% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- ATASOLO THEATRE INC7× · 2017–2025 · $343k · revenue +25%
WESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INC7× · 2017–2025 · $212k · revenue +58%
FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC7× · 2017–2025 · $208k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- SRSARASOTA RISING INCORPORATEDone grant, 2024 · $10k
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 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.
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 provide a small, intimate environment of academic excellence and enrichment, utilizing community partnerships and traditional and innovative teaching methods.
The mission of the st. petersburg opera company is to enrich the cultural lives of the residents of, and visitors to, the tampa bay area by presenting fully staged professional opera productions of the highest quality, and to make opera…
Performing to the general public
To provide educational displays and information on art in our area and to provide scholarships.
St Petersburg Arts Alliance is the umbrella organization serving the arts and cultural community: advocating for the arts; facilitating the growth of the arts community; and driving arts-related economics development in St Petersburg and…
To preserve jazz music as an art form.
Developing the academic potential of each student through a rigorous content-rich, classical liberal arts education while building in them a virtuous character.
A charitable ballet company producing professional ballet performances for the public, Arts Ballet Theatre provides accessibility, community involvement & education & training for professional and pre-professional dancers. It also provides…
The Gulf Coast Symphony exists to contribute to the cultural enrichment of Lee County by producing and performing a broad variety of concerts and creating a diverse innovative and balanced program of performances events community and…
The mission of the sarasota cuban ballet is to celebrate and sustain the cultural legacy of the cuban ballet tradition, sharing its uniqueness through performance, education, and community outreach.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota and the most unlike its peers is Soundbox Ventures 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 40 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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 ASOLO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Florida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds KEY CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS & CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF SARASOTA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAMSUNCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds WOMAN'S EXCHANGE INC OF SARASOTA ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA POPS ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds SUNCOAST BLACK ARTS COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC ↗
- Who funds LA MUSICA DI ASOLO INC ↗
- Who funds Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds ART CENTER SARASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds CHORAL ARTISTS OF SARASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES INC ↗
- Who funds URBANITE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA RISING INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SOUNDBOX VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds ARTIST SERIES CONCERTS OF SARASOTA ↗
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 · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · The Kretzmer Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Norman E Peterson and Diana Lager Peterson Educational Fund Inc · Roberta Leventhal Sudakoff Foundation Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · The Huisking Foundation Inc · Shapolsky-Siegel Charitable Foundation · The Aaron Family Foundation · Deline Charitable 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 Woman's Exchange Inc of Sarasota 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.
- Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc — 1% 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
- 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.