About Harry Sudakoff Foundation
The Harry Sudakoff Foundation focuses its giving locally in Sarasota County, concentrating on healthcare, basic needs, and community infrastructure. Most grants are unrestricted/general support to established local institutions—particularly the area hospital and food bank—indicating a priority on sustaining critical services for the community. The foundation favors a small number of sizable awards rather than many small grants.
Focus Areas
Support for Sarasota Memorial Hospital and local healthcare servicesFunding for emergency food security via All Faiths Food BankStrengthening local philanthropic infrastructure through the Community Foundation of Sarasota County
Who They Fund
Sarasota County residentspatients and users of Sarasota Memorial Hospitalfood-insecure individuals and familieslocal nonprofit organizations and community institutions
Giving Approach
Concentrated, local giving with relatively large, general-support grants; repeat funding to a few core nonprofit partners rather than broad diversified funding.
About Harry Sudakoff Foundation
Harry Sudakoff Foundation Inc repeatedly makes some of its largest awards to Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation, including two $100,000 general grants in 2023 and 2024. That pattern points to a funder that uses sizable, unrestricted gifts to sustain core local institutions rather than scatter smaller awards across many places. Its giving also reaches beyond healthcare into emergency food support, disability services, youth-serving programs, and community philanthropy, but always within a tightly local footprint. In the recent grant record, the foundation appears to favor general operating support for organizations that residents rely on for day-to-day stability. The grant list shows Sarasota-based institutions returning year after year, including All Faiths Food Bank Inc, Children First Inc, and Meals on Wheels of Sarasota. The Community Foundation of Sarasota County also appears as a recipient, suggesting attention to local philanthropic infrastructure as part of the foundation’s approach. Across these grants, the foundation’s role is less about project-specific funding and more about reinforcing established service providers serving Sarasota County residents, patients, families, and nonprofit organizations.
What Harry Sudakoff Foundation Funds
Healthcare is a clear anchor in the foundation’s grant history. It gave $100,000 to Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation in 2024 and another $100,000 in 2023, both for general support. Basic-needs work is another steady theme: All Faiths Food Bank Inc received $40,000 in 2023, $25,000 in 2024, and $40,000 in 2025, all listed as general grants. The foundation also backs organizations serving children and families. Children First Inc received $25,000 in 2024 and $25,000 in 2025, while Safe Children Coalition Inc received $15,000 in 2023. Disability and accessibility services appear as well, including $30,000 to Community Haven for Adults & Children with Disabilities in 2025 and $30,000 to Easter Seals Southwest Florida Foundation in 2024, followed by $25,000 in 2025. These awards show a mix of health, food access, and family-support funding within Sarasota.
How Harry Sudakoff Foundation Gives
Typical grant sizes cluster in the mid-five-figure range, with p25 at $10,000, a median of $20,000, and p75 at $25,000. The recent record also includes larger $100,000 grants, but most awards sit between $10,000 and $25,000. The pattern is concentrated and repetitive: several recipients appear in more than one year, including Children First Inc, All Faiths Food Bank Inc, Meals on Wheels of Sarasota, Samaritan Counseling Services of the Gulf Coast, and Easter Seals Southwest Florida Foundation. Grants are listed as general support, and the foundation does not make program-related investments or grants to individuals.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$351K
Total Assets
$5.5M
Total Revenue
$773K
Total Expenses
$438K
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $25K, with a median of $20K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$20K
75th Percentile
$25K
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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