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SARASOTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC

SARASOTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $614,805 to it, the largest being Florida Sports Foundation Incorporated ($514,806). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.1M
Revenue FY2025
2
Funders on record
$615k
Grants received
$2.1M
Net assets
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7.5M) Expenses 100 ($7.4M) Net assets 100 ($609k)2018 Revenue 95 ($7.1M) Expenses 94 ($7.0M) Net assets 118 ($720k)2019 Revenue 110 ($8.2M) Expenses 110 ($8.1M) Net assets 138 ($843k)2020 Revenue 71 ($5.3M) Expenses 71 ($5.2M) Net assets 149 ($905k)2021 Revenue 62 ($4.6M) Expenses 62 ($4.6M) Net assets 158 ($960k)2022 Revenue 78 ($5.8M) Expenses 77 ($5.7M) Net assets 170 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 27 ($2.0M) Expenses 23 ($1.7M) Net assets 227 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 29 ($2.2M) Expenses 23 ($1.7M) Net assets 306 ($1.9M)2025 Revenue 29 ($2.1M) Expenses 26 ($1.9M) Net assets 339 ($2.1M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (29)Expenses (26)Net assets (339)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$75k
17
$111k
18
$123k
19
$61k
20
$55k
21
$78k
22
$338k
23
$483k
24
$200k
25
9.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $104k → $119k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of SARASOTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

How concentrated its funding is

SARASOTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% 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

84%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 56% · 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.

Where its funders are

100% of SARASOTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC'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 SARASOTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU 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

04Profile & governance

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

Governance

13
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 SARASOTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU 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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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 CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC?
SARASOTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $614,805 to it, the largest being Florida Sports Foundation Incorporated ($514,806). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SARASOTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $614,805 in grants to SARASOTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SARASOTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC?
Florida Sports Foundation Incorporated is the largest funder on record, with $514,806 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SARASOTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU 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 2funders 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