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The Appleby Charitable Foundation

Sarasota, FL · EIN 93-6729583. Reported 53 grants totalling $649,000 to 53 organizations across tax years 2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$649,000granted, 2024
53organizations funded
$17.6Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Appleby Charitable Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $100,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
1 grant
$1,000 - $5,000
16 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
18 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
13 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
1 grant
$50,000 - $100,000
3 grants
$100,000 and Up
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Asheville Art MuseumAshville, NC$100,000112024
Young Harris CollegeYoung Harris, GA$65,000112024
Hudson Valley Shakespeare FestivalGarrison, NY$50,000112024
Minorities in Sharks ScienceSarasota, FL$50,000112024
Aquarium of the PacificLong Beach, CA$35,000112024
Connecticut Zoological SocietyBridgeport, CT$20,000112024
Lighthawk Conservation FlyingDenver, CO$20,000112024
Northeast Wilderness TrustBoston, MA$20,000112024
Sarasota Audubon SocietySarasota, FL$20,000112024
University of ChicagoChicago, IL$20,000112024
Vanderbilt UniversityNashville, TN$20,000112024
Conservation FoundationNaperville, IL$15,000112024
Florida Studio TheatreSarasota, FL$15,000112024
Lewy Body Dimentia AssocationLilburn, GA$15,000112024
Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central FloridaSarasota, FL$15,000112024
Academy at GlengarySarasota, FL$10,000112024
Asolo ThreaterSarasota, FL$10,000112024
Planned Parenthood of South AtlanticRaleigh, NC$10,000112024
Forty CarrotsSarasota, FL$7,000112024
Sarasota Art MuseumSarasota, FL$7,000112024
Burn InstituteSan Diego, CA$6,000112024
Sarasota OrchestraSarasota, FL$6,000112024
Save the BayOakland, CA$6,000112024
Westcoast Black Theatre TroupeSarasota, FL$6,000112024
Ansonia Music Outreach Organzation IncNew York, NY$5,000112024
Augusta-Richmond County LibraryAugusta, GA$5,000112024
Boston UniversityBoston, MA$5,000112024
Emotions Matter IncJericho, NY$5,000112024
Ensemble New SrqSarasota, FL$5,000112024
Harvest HouseSarasota, FL$5,000112024
Kite's NestHudson, NY$5,000112024
Lamusica Di Asolo IncSarasota, FL$5,000112024
Pines of Sarasota FoundationSarasota, FL$5,000112024
Sarasota Contemporary DanceSarasota, FL$5,000112024
Second Heart Homes IncSarasota, FL$5,000112024
Tidewell HospiceSarasota, FL$5,000112024
Boston Early Music FestivalCambridge, MA$4,000112024
Neuro Challenge Foundation for Parkinson'sSarasota, FL$4,000112024
Children FirstSarasota, FL$3,000112024
Greater Dallas Youth OrchestraDallas, TX$3,000112024
Idyllwild Arts FoundationIdyllwildpine Cove, CA$3,000112024
Pacific Marine Mammal CenterLaguna Beach, CA$3,000112024
Parkinson's Place CenterWarwick, RI$3,000112024
Resurrection House IncSarasota, FL$2,500112024
Rhode Island Children's ChorusLincoln, RI$2,500112024
Rhode Island Philharmonic Music SchoolEast Providence, RI$2,500112024
Hudson Opera HouseHudson, NY$2,000112024
Ocular Immunology and Uveitis FoundationWaltham, MA$2,000112024
Reef Check FoundationMarina Del Ray, CA$2,000112024
Daily ActsPetaluma, CA$1,500112024
Women's Resource CenterSarasota, FL$1,500112024
Alliance Francaise De SarasotaSarasota, FL$1,000112024
Steinway SocietyAlamonte Springs, FL$500112024

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 28 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Arts & Culture
9 grants
Education
5 grants
Environment
3 grants
Health Care
3 grants
Animal Welfare
2 grants
Employment
1 grant
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant
Mental Health
1 grant

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 30% of this one's giving went to organizations in Florida. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Florida
$194K
North Carolina
$110K
Georgia
$85K
New York
$67K
California
$56K
Illinois
$35K
Massachusetts
$31K
Connecticut
$20K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc26 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund25 shared recipientsThe Appleby Foundation19 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc16 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc16 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation15 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Florida.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Appleby Charitable Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 2 returns (tax years 2023-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 1515 Ringling Blvd 1100, Sarasota, FL, 34236. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 93-6729583 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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