AD Impact

• The foundation does not accept unsolicited requests and makes contributions only to organisations it has preselected, so a cold application is unlikely to be considered; any route in should come through an existing contact rather than a speculative proposal.
• Its filings state no geographic focus, and most grants have gone to organisations in New York, Florida and Minnesota, so location alone should not rule you out.
• Because 97% of its grant dollars in the latest filing went to organisations it had also funded in earlier filings, existing relationships matter more than a first approach.
• About 8 in 10 of its 13 grants to organisations fall between $100,000 and $2,050,000, with a median of about $600,000, so a request of that order fits its typical grant, though its largest grant was about $2,350,000, so that band is not a ceiling.
• The filings state no eligibility criteria or funding priorities, so describe your work plainly against the educational, health, cultural, environmental and community purposes it has already supported.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Hamilton College · Aspirational design; the hamilton fund
  $2,330,0002025 tax year
• Bay Park Conservancy · General support
  $808,1462025 tax year
• Mayo Clinic · Center for regenerative biotherapeutics
  $507,3752025 tax year
• Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation · General support
  $253,2262025 tax year
• Fenwick High School · Class of 1965 endowed scholarship fund
  $100,0452025 tax year
• Community Foundation of Sarasota County · Season of sharing sarasota county
  $25,0002025 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.