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DOWNTOWN SARASOTA ALLIANCE INC AKA DOWNTOWN MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION INC
DOWNTOWN SARASOTA ALLIANCE INC AKA DOWNTOWN MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,041 to it, the largest being The Leela and Murali D Atluru Family Foundation Inc ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $88k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $35k
What Downtown Sarasota Alliance Inc Aka Downtown Merchants Association Inc does
Mission
To promote the benefits and the cultural diversity of the city and business communities of sarasota and surrounding areas through various programs and holiday events.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
All related to holiday cultural programs and events held throughout the year.
$34,534 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $34,534.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $50k to $22k (−56%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
0% of DOWNTOWN SARASOTA ALLIANCE INC AKA DOWNTOWN MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Sailesh Atluru
Chairman
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $15 → $5k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of DOWNTOWN SARASOTA ALLIANCE INC AKA DOWNTOWN MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
DOWNTOWN SARASOTA ALLIANCE INC AKA DOWNTOWN MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of DOWNTOWN SARASOTA ALLIANCE INC AKA DOWNTOWN MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
DOWNTOWN SARASOTA ALLIANCE INC AKA DOWNTOWN MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like DOWNTOWN SARASOTA ALLIANCE INC AKA DOWNTOWN MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DOWNTOWN SARASOTA ALLIANCE INC AKA DOWNTOWN MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION INC?
- DOWNTOWN SARASOTA ALLIANCE INC AKA DOWNTOWN MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,041 to it, the largest being The Leela and Murali D Atluru Family Foundation Inc ($15,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOWNTOWN SARASOTA ALLIANCE INC AKA DOWNTOWN MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $15,041 in grants to DOWNTOWN SARASOTA ALLIANCE INC AKA DOWNTOWN MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOWNTOWN SARASOTA ALLIANCE INC AKA DOWNTOWN MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION INC?
- The Leela and Murali D Atluru Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOWNTOWN SARASOTA ALLIANCE INC AKA DOWNTOWN MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing