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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,171 to it, the largest being Ringling College of Art and Design inc ($53,925). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.4M
Revenue FY2025
3
Funders on record
$105k
Grants received
$690k
Net assets
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%

Against its field

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY is better cushioned than half of the 1,812 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve7.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,812 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($374k)2018 Revenue 104 ($1.7M) Expenses 101 ($1.6M) Net assets 112 ($420k)2019 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 99 ($1.6M) Net assets 116 ($435k)2020 Revenue 97 ($1.6M) Expenses 95 ($1.5M) Net assets 126 ($471k)2021 Revenue 90 ($1.4M) Expenses 86 ($1.4M) Net assets 141 ($528k)2022 Revenue 92 ($1.5M) Expenses 87 ($1.4M) Net assets 164 ($614k)2023 Revenue 90 ($1.4M) Expenses 89 ($1.4M) Net assets 167 ($624k)2024 Revenue 96 ($1.5M) Expenses 89 ($1.4M) Net assets 195 ($729k)2025 Revenue 89 ($1.4M) Expenses 91 ($1.5M) Net assets 184 ($690k)
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Revenue (89)Expenses (91)Net assets (184)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
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2020
2021
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 63% · 2018 63% · 2019 63% · 2020 68% · 2021 72% · 2022 72% · 2023 72% · 2024 69% · 2025 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,406 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$832
17
$45k
18
$15k
19
$36k
20
$58k
21
$85k
22
$10k
23
$105k
24
$40k
25
7.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $25k.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)41% 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 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

How concentrated its funding is

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% 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

51%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 100% · 2019 58% · 2020 61% · 2021 100% · 2022 64% · 2023 69%growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.

Where its funders are

100% of ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY's grant income comes from Florida funders.

FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Florida

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 18%Fundraising 0%

Governance

27
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY?
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,171 to it, the largest being Ringling College of Art and Design inc ($53,925). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $105,171 in grants to ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY?
Ringling College of Art and Design inc is the largest funder on record, with $53,925 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing