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The Appleby Charitable Foundation

Sarasota, FL · EIN 93-6729583. Reported 53 grants totalling $649,000 to 53 recipients 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
53recipients, as named on its returns
$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. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

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 activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 29 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

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

30% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund28 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc26 shared recipientsThe Appleby Foundation20 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc18 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust17 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc16 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  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). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

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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