Florida · Nonprofit
EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY
EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY (Florida) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,800,918 to it, the largest being GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($2,122,687). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 64
- Grants received
- $9.8M
- Net assets
- $6.1M
What Education Foundation of Sarasota County does
Mission
To enhance the potential of students, promote excellence in teaching, and inspire innovation in education, guided by strategic philanthropy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Student programs-future-ready students:the education foundation delivers a comprehensive system of student support designed to ensure more students graduate high school with the purpose and clear plan for life after graduation. Through its future-ready approach, the foundation provides tiered services based on student need, including individualized coaching, targeted interventions, and universal access to resources.core services include one-on-one advising through student success coaches and school-based resiliency coaches, intensive support through the fuiture-ready scholars program, and targeted initiatives such as mentoring and recognition programs that promote persistence and achievement. The foundation also provides workshops on college, career, and financial aid readiness; access to scholarships and a community-wide scholarship database; and referrals for mental health services in partnership with local providers.these programs collectively support students in developing the knowledge, skills, and agency needed to successfully pursue postsecondary education, career training, military service, or employment.
Teacher support programs:the education foundation invests in educators to strengthen classroom innovation, teacher leadership, and overall instructional quality. Through competitive teacher grants, the foundation provides approximately $200,000 annually to support creative and impactful classroom projects, with a focus on serving title 1 schools.additional programs recognize and elevate educator excellence and leadership, including the teacher of the year awards and educator impact fellows program. Professional learning opportunities and enrichment workshops provide educators with space to collaborate, reflect and grow.together these efforts support teacher retention, innovation, and the advancement of effective practices that benefit students across sarasota county.
Community initiatives-planit sarasota and regional partnerships:the education foundation serves as the backbone organization for planit sarasota, the county's local college access network (lcan), which convenes more that 50 cross-sector partners to improve postsecondary attainment. The collaborative works to increase the percentage of students who pursue and complete education beyond high school, with a goal aligned to florida's statewide attainment targets.key initiatives include fafsa completion events, college and career exploration experiences, and regional efforts to re-engage students who have dropped out of college or failed to enroll after acceptance. Through these partnerships, the foundation addresses systemic barriers and aligns community resources to better support student success.these initiatives extend the foundation's impact beyond direct services by fostering coordinated, community-wide solutions and improve outcomes for students, particularly those who are underserved.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,973,682.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $5.5M to $12M (+120%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 5% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Jennifer Vigne
President & CEO
Board chair
Brock H Leach
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $492k → $2.2M.
17 of 64 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 64 funders by total. 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
EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
71% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 26% · 2019 40% · 2020 31% · 2021 35% · 2022 20% · 2023 25% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
41% of EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
55% of EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states 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
EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY is better cushioned than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY
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.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY?
- EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY (Florida) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,800,918 to it, the largest being GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($2,122,687). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 64 organizations giving $9,800,918 in grants to EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY?
- GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,122,687 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 64 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing