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Frances Saunders Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| LIVE ACTION | $5,000 |
| UNITED FOR LIFE OF MERCED COUNTY | $4,000 |
| UNBOUND | $3,000 |
| KNOM RADIO MISSIONS | $2,800 |
| ST PATRICK'S PARISH | $2,500 |
| CALIFORNIA RIGHT TO LIFE | $2,000 |
| PRIESTS FOR LIFE | $1,500 |
| JMJ MATERNITY HOMES | $1,500 |
| CATHOLIC BISHOP OF NORTHERN ALASKA | $1,000 |
| STUDENTS FOR LIFE OF AMERICA | $1,000 |
| FOOD FOR THE POOR | $1,000 |
| WORLD VILLAGES FOR CHILDREN | $500 |
| CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOC | $500 |
| ANUGRAHA ACT INC | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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.
36 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- JMJMJ MATERNITY HOMES8× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +27%
- KRKNOM Radio Mission Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +17%
- SOSISTER OF MARY BOYSTOWN AND GIRLSTOWN INC7× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- CRCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESone grant, 2020 · $3k
- IHImmaculate Heart RadioRelevant Radioone grant, 2017 · $2k
- CCCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Countiesone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -8%
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.
Passionlife ministries is a global missions initiative to spread the gospel of life and expand the pregnancy help movement among nations plagued by abortion, infanticide and gendercide.
Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.
Dissemination of pro-life information
Bsideu for life is committed to presenting the gospel of our lord in word and deed by educating women facing crisis pregnancies, responding to their needs and protecting the lives of unborn children.bsideu for life also equips mothers and…
To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church
Catholics for Choice - which serves the pro-choice Catholic majority - encounters, educates, and emboldens people of faith who support reproductive freedom. Catholics for Choice believes healthcare is a human right and that includes access…
Save a life international helps women in crisis; including crisis pregnancies, domestic violence, post-abortion depression and other types of hardships. they provide education and bring awareness to young people about the importance of…
AUL is an organization that advances the human right to life in culture, law, and policy.
To rescue lives from the destruction of abortion through innovative marketing, strategy, and technology solutions.
Life Matters Worldwide encourages, equips and strengthens pregnancy care workers so they can continue to provide life-affirming services.
Pro-Life Action Ministries, Inc. is an interdenominational Christian organization dedicated to publicly defending the sanctity of human life & saving lives from abortion, infanticide & euthanasia through peaceful direct-action & education…
To partner with leaders globally to boldly proclaim the biblical truth of the father's heart for life, champion the gospel of jesus christ, and establish life-giving ministries.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Anugraha Act Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 49 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 JMJ MATERNITY HOMES ↗
- Who funds KNOM Radio Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds PRIESTS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds SISTER OF MARY BOYSTOWN AND GIRLSTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds LIVE ACTION ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LIFE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds IMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds Unbound ↗
- Who funds ANUGRAHA ACT INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT FILLED HEARTS MINISTRY 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: Sacred Heart Trust Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Frances Saunders 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 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.
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