· Private foundation
Anchor and Hope Sam R Sayers
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE | $4,000 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE | $4,000 |
| EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| ROANOKE COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON | $4,000 |
| SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| DAVIS AND ELKINS COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE | $4,000 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE | $4,000 |
| LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $4,000 |
| KING UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VPVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE4× · 2018–2025 · $88k
- RURADFORD UNIVERSITY2× · 2018–2019 · $28k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA3× · 2019–2025 · $20k
Funded once
- MBMADISON BROWN CO RADFORD UNIVone grant, 2020 · $4k
- PBPERRY BURRESS CO LIBERTY UNIVone grant, 2020 · $4k
- WAWASHINGTON AND LEE UNIV FBO HOLDENone grant, 2022 · $4k
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.
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.
The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 80 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Anchor and Hope Sam R Sayers funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anchor and Hope Sam R Sayers. Bigger dots raise more.
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