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SARASOTA FILM SOCIETY INC

SARASOTA FILM SOCIETY INC (Florida) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,072 to it, the largest being JAMES E DAVIS & SUSAN FROST DAVIS FOUNDATION ($20,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.8M
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$47k
Net assets
$2.1M
9/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Sarasota Film Society Inc does

Mission

Through numerous festivals and educational programs, coupled with fun and thought-provoking events, sarasota film society has continued its promise to provide the community with a longstanding commitment to outreach and education through film.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Films of international importance are brought to sarasota and surrounding communities. Groups served include public schools, colleges, and ethnic groups.

    $3,141,304 spentof which $44,790 as grants$2,304,516 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Members film history and education classes

  3. Face autism summer student film camp

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,141,304.

02The 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 ($3.5M) Expenses 100 ($3.5M) Net assets 100 ($3.0M)2018 Revenue 111 ($3.9M) Expenses 108 ($3.7M) Net assets 104 ($3.2M)2019 Revenue 105 ($3.7M) Expenses 108 ($3.7M) Net assets 102 ($3.1M)2020 Revenue 24 ($830k) Expenses 68 ($2.3M) Net assets 59 ($1.8M)2021 Revenue 97 ($3.4M) Expenses 63 ($2.2M) Net assets 89 ($2.7M)2022 Revenue 91 ($3.2M) Expenses 102 ($3.5M) Net assets 87 ($2.7M)2023 Revenue 97 ($3.4M) Expenses 106 ($3.7M) Net assets 76 ($2.3M)2024 Revenue 106 ($3.7M) Expenses 108 ($3.8M) Net assets 74 ($2.2M)2025 Revenue 109 ($3.8M) Expenses 113 ($3.9M) Net assets 70 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (109)Expenses (113)Net assets (70)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $5.4M to $7.0M (+30%).

$7.0M
$6.8M
$6.5M
$5.4M
$7.0M
$6.2M
$5.7M
$5.7M
$5.5M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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 61% · 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

10% of SARASOTA FILM SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,395 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$16k
’17
$130k
’18
−$79k
’19
−$1.5M
’20
$1.2M
’21
−$345k
’22
−$298k
’23
−$54k
’24
−$109k
’25
2.8
months of
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

Renee Baggott

CEO/president

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.

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Listed446554444
Joined·+1+3+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·11101000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $1k → $25k.

2 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 FILM SOCIETY 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

SARASOTA FILM SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

42%
largest funder
71%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 93% · 2019 48% · 2020 83% · 2021 85% · 2022 45% · 2023 81% — broadly stable.

“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

33% of SARASOTA FILM SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 SARASOTA FILM SOCIETY INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.

IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
GA
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. $7k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SARASOTA FILM SOCIETY INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve2.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 14%Fundraising 5%

Governance

4
board members
25%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds SARASOTA FILM SOCIETY INC?
SARASOTA FILM SOCIETY INC (Florida) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,072 to it, the largest being JAMES E DAVIS & SUSAN FROST DAVIS FOUNDATION ($20,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SARASOTA FILM SOCIETY INC have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $47,072 in grants to SARASOTA FILM SOCIETY INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SARASOTA FILM SOCIETY INC?
JAMES E DAVIS & SUSAN FROST DAVIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SARASOTA FILM SOCIETY 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 20 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