Florida · Nonprofit
Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc
Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc (Florida) receives grants from 100 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,349,352 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,131,434). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 501 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 501 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.
- Wilson - Wood Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- American Dance Movementportfolio match
- Danceusaportfolio match
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.
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 3% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 10% · 2022 21% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $2.0M → $3.1M.
18 of 100 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 100 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
Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
84% 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 Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 44% · 2019 51% · 2020 41% · 2021 47% · 2022 31% · 2023 30% — 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
38% of Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
82% of Sarasota Ballet of Florida 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 $4.1M that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 17 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
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. Your 100 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Wilson - Wood Foundation Incshared funderslocalFL · backs 35 organizations that share your funders · funds 38 organizations near you
- American Dance Movementportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Danceusaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Music & Dance Foundation Inc Co Abruzzo Accounting LLCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trustshared funderslocalFL · backs 71 organizations that share your funders · funds 103 organizations near you
- Manatee Community Foundation Incshared funderslocalFL · backs 107 organizations that share your funders · funds 223 organizations near you
- United Way Suncoast Incshared fundersFL · backs 52 organizations that share your funders
- Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce Foundation InclocalFL · funds 63 organizations near you
- Sisterhood For Good InclocalFL · funds 59 organizations near you
- Msc Foundation InclocalFL · funds 107 organizations near you
- Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation InclocalFL · funds 25 organizations near you
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.
Government funding Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record — $45k federal, $5k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$45k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $5k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 Sarasota Ballet of Florida 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.
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 Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc?
- Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc (Florida) receives grants from 100 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,349,352 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,131,434). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc have?
- IRS filings report 100 organizations giving $23,349,352 in grants to Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,131,434 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sarasota Ballet of Florida 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.
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 100funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing