Florida · Nonprofit
SARASOTA SUNCOAST ACADEMY INC
SARASOTA SUNCOAST ACADEMY INC (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,844 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ($5,715). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $747k
What Sarasota Suncoast Academy Inc does
Mission
To integrate excellence in education, highly motivated and qualified teachers, deeply concerned and involved parents and a supportive community to provide students a superior learning opportunity. We will develop and reinforce a strong value system and
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Suncoast academy is open to any student, kindergarten through 5th grade, who reside in the school district of sarasota, manatee, and charlotte counties. The goal is to target those students who reside geographically close to the school. Students will be considered for admission without regard to race, religion, gender, or nation or ethnic origin. Suncoast academy provides training for teachers and administration in repsonsive education. This method has been proved to increase success in the classroom. Responsive classroom is not social skills or character education program that is an add-on nor is it just another curriculum. Responsive education is an approach to teaching and learning that integrates academic and social learning throughout the entire curriculum. Through a contractual arrangement with the northeast foundation for children, the academys staff receives specialized training in the responsive educational approach to teaching
$11,569,911 spent$11,755,793 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,569,911.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $6.0M to $13M (+118%).
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.
0% of SARASOTA SUNCOAST ACADEMY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% 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
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.
Board chair
Mitchell Burks
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $6k → $642.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 SUNCOAST ACADEMY 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 SUNCOAST ACADEMY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% 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
81% 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 SUNCOAST ACADEMY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 74% · 2022 76% · 2023 78% — 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.
Where its funders are
81% of SARASOTA SUNCOAST ACADEMY 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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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.
Against its field
SARASOTA SUNCOAST ACADEMY INC has grown faster than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding SARASOTA SUNCOAST ACADEMY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14 on record.
- FEES - GENERAL - COMMODITIES $14
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 SUNCOAST ACADEMY INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SARASOTA SUNCOAST ACADEMY INC?
- SARASOTA SUNCOAST ACADEMY INC (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,844 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ($5,715). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SARASOTA SUNCOAST ACADEMY INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $7,844 in grants to SARASOTA SUNCOAST ACADEMY INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SARASOTA SUNCOAST ACADEMY INC?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,715 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SARASOTA SUNCOAST ACADEMY 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 3 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