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SARASOTA SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INC

SARASOTA SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,256 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ($39,946). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$9.9M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$58k
Net assets
$5.5M
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Sarasota School of Arts and Sciences Inc does

Mission

To provide a small, intimate environment of academic excellence and enrichment, utilizing community partnerships and traditional and innovative teaching methods.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide lifelong learning skills, using the educational philosophy of the holistic approach to the "whole" child, so that our students will be able to relate said learning in all of the developmental domains to whatever occupation they choose and subsequently give back to the community at large. To educate every child via the interdisciplinary, multicultural curriculum.

    $6,521,950 spent$9,819,897 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,521,950.

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 ($6.9M) Expenses 100 ($6.6M) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 110 ($7.6M) Expenses 105 ($7.0M) Net assets 160 ($1.8M)2019 Revenue 105 ($7.3M) Expenses 110 ($7.3M) Net assets 154 ($1.7M)2020 Revenue 102 ($7.1M) Expenses 106 ($7.1M) Net assets 154 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 109 ($7.5M) Expenses 112 ($7.4M) Net assets 160 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 116 ($8.0M) Expenses 107 ($7.1M) Net assets 243 ($2.7M)2023 Revenue 125 ($8.7M) Expenses 122 ($8.1M) Net assets 299 ($3.3M)2024 Revenue 133 ($9.2M) Expenses 125 ($8.3M) Net assets 380 ($4.2M)2025 Revenue 143 ($9.9M) Expenses 131 ($8.7M) Net assets 493 ($5.5M)
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Revenue (143)Expenses (131)Net assets (493)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 2023 to 2024, from $12M to $17M (+45%).

$12M
$12M
$12M
$12M
$11M
$12M
$12M
$17M
$18M
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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

0% of SARASOTA SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

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

$302k
’17
$667k
’18
$26k
’19
$9k
’20
$83k
’21
$930k
’22
$622k
’23
$906k
’24
$1.3M
’25
6.4
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.

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Listed131714151414151412
Joined·+5+0+3+2+1+2+1+2
No longer listed·13231124
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $103.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 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 SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

71% 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 SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INC.

69%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 65% · 2021 96% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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.

Where its funders are

70% of SARASOTA SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 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 $18k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from Florida funders.

IL
TN
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. $41k 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 SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve6.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like SARASOTA SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 25%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
91%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds SARASOTA SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INC?
SARASOTA SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INC (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,256 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ($39,946). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SARASOTA SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $58,256 in grants to SARASOTA SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SARASOTA SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INC?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC is the largest funder on record, with $39,946 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SARASOTA SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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