Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce
Sarasota, FL · EIN 26-1563145. Reported 76 grants totalling $1,371,519 to 48 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce, the IRS classifies it under community improvement rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE S30) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 48 distinct organizations, with 16% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 56% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $11,404. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $23,850; the smallest was $5,200 and the largest $72,639. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation | Sarasota, FL | $218,490 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Air Products | Palmetto, FL | $152,880 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Chris - Craft Corporation | Sarasota, FL | $141,540 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| State College of Florida Foundation Inc | Bradenton, FL | $120,994 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Suncoast Technical College | Sarasota, FL | $116,874 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Manatee Memorial Hospital | Bradenton, FL | $55,100 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Bartelt Packaging | Sarasota, FL | $42,516 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Badger Bobs | Sarasota, FL | $34,212 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Adams Group | North Port, FL | $30,600 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Lakewood Ranch Medical | Lakewood Ranch, FL | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Technical Education Council | Sarasota, FL | $25,900 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce Inc | Sarasota, FL | $24,568 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fleetforce | Sarasota, FL | $23,050 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| State Farm - George Quarterman | Lakewood Ranch, FL | $22,600 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| American Vocational Academy Foundation Inc | Bradenton, FL | $19,945 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mkm Sarasota LLC | Sarasota, FL | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kempton Research & Planning | Sarasota, FL | $16,930 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Tidewell Hospice Inc | Lakewood Ranch, FL | $15,900 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ced Greentech-Tampa Bay | Palmetto, FL | $15,778 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Bright Future Electric | Sarasota, FL | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Home Helpers of Bradenton | Bradenton, FL | $14,838 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Sarasota and Desoto Counties Foundation Inc | Sarasota, FL | $14,395 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American Torch Tip Co | Bradenton, FL | $13,975 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Jeldwen | Sarasota, FL | $11,646 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Meridian West Central College | Sarasota, FL | $10,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sun Hydraulics | Sarasota, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Veteran Air | Bradenton, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pgt Innovations | Norkomis, FL | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tiny Home Builders | Suwanee, GA | $8,017 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Settles Stump Grinding & Tree | Bradenton, FL | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dapper Bowtique | Bradenton, FL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Freeland Eddie Law Group | Sarasota, FL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Herrera Psychology | Osprey, FL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Music Compound | Sarasota, FL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Newtown Nation Inc | Sarasota, FL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rosalyn Walton Education and Enrichment Services | Bradenton, FL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jewish Housing Council Dba Avivia Senior Living | Sarasota, FL | $7,200 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lakewood Medical Center | Lakewood Ranch, FL | $7,190 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Bia Candle | Sarasota, FL | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Robertson Consulting Group | Sarasota, FL | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Making An Impact Inc | Lakewood Rch, FL | $6,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Shumaker Loop & Kendrick | Sarasota, FL | $6,224 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tiny Home Builders | Pensacocla, FL | $6,207 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bayfirst National Bank | Sarasota, FL | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Minorities in Shark Sciences | Bradenton, FL | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Scorpion King Charter | Bradenton, FL | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Sarasota Cuban Ballet School Inc | Sarasota, FL | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Matthews Currie Ford | Nokomis, FL | $5,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
14 of 48 (29%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Sarasota Memorial Hospital
CNA TRAINING, HEALTHCARE EMPLOYEE PARTNERSHIP - State College of Fl
CNA TRAINING PROGRAM, MANUFACTURING LEADERSHIP TRAINING, HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP TRAINING - Chris - Craft Corporation
BOEING OJT REIMBURSEMENTS AND UPSKILLING WORKERS - Chris-Craft Corporation
APPRENTICESHIPS, MANUFACTURING EMPLOYER PARTNERSHIP, OJT REIMBURSEMENTS - Suncoast Technical College
MARINE FAST TRACK PROGRAM, CNA TRAINING PROGRAM, AND AUTO LUBE FAST TRACK PROGRAM - Technical Education Council
CORE CONSTRUCTION SKILLS TRAINING, UPSKILLING WORKERS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 10 of 48 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 14 | $308,294 | $15,389 |
| 2021 | 21 | $412,026 | $11,404 |
| 2022 | 16 | $279,602 | $9,845 |
| 2023 | 25 | $371,597 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
99% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $11,404 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Florida.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 1 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 24 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1945 Fruitville Road, Sarasota, FL, 34236.
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