· Private foundation
Daniel a and Sheila M Saklad Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k40 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOWER CAPE FEAR LIFECARE | $30,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND | $25,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD CENTER | $25,000 |
| CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FAMILY HOUSE | $20,000 |
| NHRMC FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WILLIE STARGELL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| REACH OUT AND READ INC | $2,500 |
| FRANK H KENAN CHAPEL AT LANDFALL | $1,000 |
| WILMINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,000 |
| NOURISH NC | $300 |
| TOYS FOR TOTS | $250 |
| MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $200 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $200 |
| MACULAR DEGENERATION ASSOCIATION | $200 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $188k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 37% of Daniel a and Sheila M Saklad Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 82% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 46% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
72 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2023, 34 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CFCAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2019–2023 · $155k · revenue ×13
- LCLower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare5× · 2017–2023 · $151k · revenue +27%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC2× · 2017–2020 · $51k · revenue +145%
Funded once
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INCone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -20%- LCLower Cape Fear Hospice Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue ×22
- RIROBERT IRVINE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +85%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…
The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Dedicated to improving the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is The Frank H Kenan Chapel at Landfall. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
87 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 87 of the 127 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds The Landfall Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds Lower Cape Fear Hospice Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds The Frank H Kenan Chapel at Landfall ↗
- Who funds ROBERT IRVINE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Canines for Service Inc ↗
- Who funds Willie Stargell Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The Wilmington Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Think Small ↗
- Who funds Macular Degeneration Association ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOODMERE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds USO OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Landfall Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Lagomarsino Foundation · New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Corning Incorporated Foundation · The Rudisill Family Foundation · United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The True North Foundation Co Amy Brown North
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Daniel a and Sheila M Saklad Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Simmons University — 1% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.