Florida · Nonprofit
REALIZE BRADENTON INC
REALIZE BRADENTON INC (Florida) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,352,479 to it, the largest being MANATEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($817,401). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $816k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $400k
What Realize Bradenton Inc does
Mission
We transform public places and engage people with arts, culture, heritage & food to build a vibrant, healthy bradenton. Bringing people together, our work results in social, physical & economic revitalization and shapes a community where people want to live, work & visit.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Improve downtown cultural vitality and attract redevelopment - creative placemaking is our key strategy to transform public places and involve people of all ages and backgrounds to build social connections, grow civic pride, and boost community development on an annual basis. Realize bradenton conducts approximately 50 events, which bring over 115,000 people downtown. These include the bradenton public market, bradenton art and music festival, music in the park concerts, and winter wonderland. These offerings drive interest and spending to local businesses, farmers, artists, musicians, and cultural nonprofit organizations.
$531,370 spent77% of program spendingIncrease outreach and capacity building - our civic engagement strategies reach people of all ages and backgrounds to positively contribute to the bradenton community, as well as their personal wellness and professional development. Innovative initiatives include:(1) start-up circle for entrepreneurs; (2) and the bradenton public market youth booth which supports and promotes youth entrepreneuers.
$83,200 spent12% of program spendingImprove branding, marketing, access, and collaboration - place branding of downtown increases the recognition of bradenton as a preferred destination for residents, visitors, businesses, and investors. Our branding work positively positions bradenton to compete in an increasingly competitive enviroment. To do so, realize bradenton informs and engages approximately 40,000 people a month using print, social media, and in-person strategies to promote the physical, cultural, historic, and social assets of the community. An initiative called "bradenton area explorer" is a business development tool that gets people to walk throughout downtown using a mobile app. The gps-enabled app showcases everything there is to experience in downtown bradenton.
$77,760 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $692,330.
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 2021 to 2022, from $630k to $472k (−25%).
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: 2017 57% · 2018 41% · 2019 49% · 2020 39% · 2021 51% · 2022 20% · 2023 16% · 2024 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of REALIZE BRADENTON INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Alisa Craton
Chair/treasurer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $78k → $249k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 REALIZE BRADENTON 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
REALIZE BRADENTON INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
72% 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 REALIZE BRADENTON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 87% · 2019 100% · 2020 70% · 2021 47% · 2022 54% · 2023 62% — 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
60% of REALIZE BRADENTON INC'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
71% of REALIZE BRADENTON INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $391k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $962k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
REALIZE BRADENTON INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like REALIZE BRADENTON 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.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 REALIZE BRADENTON INC: 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 REALIZE BRADENTON INC?
- REALIZE BRADENTON INC (Florida) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,352,479 to it, the largest being MANATEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($817,401). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does REALIZE BRADENTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,352,479 in grants to REALIZE BRADENTON INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REALIZE BRADENTON INC?
- MANATEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $817,401 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REALIZE BRADENTON 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 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