How much does A M & Helen L Saylor Foundation give?

A M & Helen L Saylor Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $42,525 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does A M & Helen L Saylor Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Health (24%), Environment (13%).

Who are A M & Helen L Saylor Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Franklin County Fair Foundation ($112k), Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation ($46k), Franklin County RACE Inc ($20k).

Does A M & Helen L Saylor Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does A M & Helen L Saylor Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as A M & Helen L Saylor Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foster & Evelyn Barkema Charitable Trust, Beth E Reinhart Charitable Trust, First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation.

Where is A M & Helen L Saylor Foundation based?

A M & Helen L Saylor Foundation is based in IA.

A M & Helen L Saylor Foundation

A M & Helen L Saylor Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

A M & Helen L Saylor Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$43k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$150kHealth$133kEnvironment$74kEducation$53kHuman Services$52kYouth Development$19kPublic Safety & Disaster$9kPublic Benefit$7kOther$0

02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k8 grants · $33k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$542k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Franklin County Fair Foundation	$10,000
Access Inc	$7,500
La Luz Centro Cultural	$5,300
Hampton Senior Citizens Center	$5,000
Windsor Theatre	$5,000
Greater Iowa Youth for Christ	$2,500
Franklin General Hospital Foundation	$2,500
Friends of the Hampton Tree Board	$2,500
Hampton Dumont District Office	$2,225

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$352k · 16 repeat orgs$196k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$352k

$180k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-7%

+10%

Still filing today

31%

22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEnvironmentEducationOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

FC
FRANKLIN COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION
4× · 2017–2025 · $112k · revenue -77%
FW
Franklin Wellness Center
4× · 2020–2024 · $105k
WT
Windsor Theatre
7× · 2018–2025 · $25k

Funded once

IN
IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $46k · revenue +154%
HD
Hampton Dumont Community School
one grant, 2022 · $26k
FC
Franklin County RACE Inc
one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +18%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Franklin Home for the Aged dba Peabody Place

Housing & Shelter

Franklin County Historical Society

Procurement and preservation of historical artifacts related to life in hampton and franklin county, iowa

Arts & Culture

Iowa Automotive Heritage Foundation

Science & Tech

Iowa Specialty Hospital Foundation - Clarion

Health

Franklin County Youth Fair

Community fair providing a venue for agricultural demonstrations & activities by 4-h, ffa , etc.

Youth Development

Hamilton County Fair Foundation

Charitable and educational support for the hamilton county exposition in hamilton county iowa

Recreation & Sports

Mid-Iowa Health Foundation

Religion

Four County Fair

To provide entertainment and food at the four county fair in dunlap, ia.

Youth Development

Webster County Agricultural Associa

To provide a 4-h county fair.

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The Farmington Home for Aged People

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Iowa West Foundation

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Iowa Insurance and Financial Services Education Foundation

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Franklin County 4-H Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Latimer Development Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/16

Grantees still filing

5/16

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$315,920Arts & Culture$111,500Environment$45,524Human Services$25,749Health$20,500Recreation & Sports$18,500Youth Development$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Foster & Evelyn Barkema Charitable TrustIA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foster & Evelyn Barkema Charitable Trust · Beth E Reinhart Charitable Trust · First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization A M & Helen L Saylor Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from A M & Helen L Saylor Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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