Missouri · Private foundation
Anchor and Hope Sam R Sayers
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $76k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 73%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 73% of the organizations Anchor and Hope Sam R Sayers funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $72k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $72k | 73% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $60k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $68k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $76k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $72k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $76k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $80k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Longwood University | $12,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Liberty University Inc | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| King University | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Roanoke College | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| James Madison University | $8,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Sweet Briar Institute | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Concord University | $8,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Davis & Elkins College | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lee University | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Louisburg College | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 16 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Longwood University | $12,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Liberty University Inc | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| King University | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Roanoke College | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| James Madison University | $8,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Sweet Briar Institute | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Concord University | $8,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Davis & Elkins College | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lee University | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Louisburg College | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bridgewater College | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Davidson College | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hampden-Sydney College | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Washington and Lee University | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wytheville Community College | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Asbury College | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 63 recipients with no EIN on record ($476k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Anchor and Hope Sam R Sayers supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · Hughes Memorial Home · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Council of Independent Colleges · Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Anchor and Hope Sam R Sayers
- How much does Anchor and Hope Sam R Sayers give?
- Anchor and Hope Sam R Sayers reported 19 grants totaling $76,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Anchor and Hope Sam R Sayers fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
- Who are Anchor and Hope Sam R Sayers's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Longwood University ($12k), Liberty University Inc ($12k), King University ($8k).
- Does Anchor and Hope Sam R Sayers fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 73% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Anchor and Hope Sam R Sayers accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Anchor and Hope Sam R Sayers?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Collegiate Athletic Association, Hughes Memorial Home, Enterprise Holdings Foundation.
- Where is Anchor and Hope Sam R Sayers based?
- Anchor and Hope Sam R Sayers is based in MO.
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