Florida · Nonprofit
Sarasota Opera Association Inc
Sarasota Opera Association Inc (Florida) receives grants from 93 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,699,021 to it, the largest being GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($5,092,498). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
Sarasota Opera Association 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.
- The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trustshared funders
- Claytor Family Charitable Foundationportfolio match
- Carol Franc Buck Foundationportfolio 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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 7% · 2022 25% · 2023 3% · 2024 3% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of Sarasota Opera Association 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. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 42 funders, grant income fell $2.6M → $1.4M.
19 of 93 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 Opera Association Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 93 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 Opera Association Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% 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
63% 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 Opera Association Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 51% · 2019 29% · 2020 28% · 2021 20% · 2022 27% · 2023 22% — 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
53% of Sarasota Opera Association Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
61% of Sarasota Opera Association 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 $5.3M that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 19 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 statesis 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 93 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trustshared fundersFL · backs 65 organizations that share your funders
- Claytor Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carol Franc Buck Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Five Arts Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Appleby Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- E Nakamichi Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way Suncoast Incshared fundersFL · backs 54 organizations that share your funders
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 80 organizations that share your funders
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 118 organizations that share your funders
- Givinga Foundation Incshared fundersMA · backs 78 organizations that share your funders
- Kpmg US Foundation Incshared fundersNJ · backs 51 organizations that share your funders
- Ernst & Young Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 88 organizations that share your funders
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 Opera Association Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $134k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$134k
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 Opera Association 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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 Opera Association 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 Opera Association Inc?
- Sarasota Opera Association Inc (Florida) receives grants from 93 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,699,021 to it, the largest being GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($5,092,498). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Sarasota Opera Association Inc have?
- IRS filings report 93 organizations giving $13,699,021 in grants to Sarasota Opera Association Inc, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sarasota Opera Association Inc?
- GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,092,498 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sarasota Opera Association 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 93funders 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