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· Private foundation
FRANCES SAUNDERS FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$24k
Granted FY2024
11
Grants
5
Communities
$7k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of FRANCES SAUNDERS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
parishcatholicmissionsveterans
2019
housingcatholicveteransmissions
2020
catholicfaith-based educationmissionsveterans
2021
veterans
2022
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2023
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 11 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$489k
Total assets
Largest grants
- ALPHA PREGNANCY$7,250
- JMJ MATERNITY HOMES$5,000
- UNITED FOR LIFE OF MERCED COUNTY$3,400
- LIVE ACTION$2,500
- ST PATRICK'S PARISH$1,500
- PRIESTS FOR LIFE$1,000
- FOOD FOR THE POOR$1,000
- ANUGRAHA ACT INC$500
- KNOM RADIO MISSIONS$500
- CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOC$500
- CATHOLIC BISHOP OF NORTHERN ALASKA$500
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$405k · 36 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else
36 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
36
14
Total granted
$405k
$14k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+1%
+17%
Still filing today
22%
36%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesCivil RightsReligionInternationalPublic BenefitOther
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 Homes7× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +27%
- CRCalifornia Right to Life6× · 2017–2022 · $14k · revenue +59%
- LALIVE ACTION3× · 2022–2024 · $13k · revenue +410%
Funded once
- CRCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESone grant, 2020 · $3k
- IHImmaculate Heart RadioRelevant Radioone grant, 2017 · $2k
- ALAmerica Life Leagueone grant, 2017 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Intimate Life Ministries
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2
Matter of Life
The Matter of Life exists to create Gospel-centered documentary films that educate and inspire people about the pro-life vs. pro-choice issue.
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3
Pro-Life Champions
To promote human rights and family values so as to inspire and transform society utilizing traditional and new media to create and produce documentary, television, radio and internet programs.
Human Services
4
Merely Human Ministries
To equip pro-life advocates to defend the dignity of life.
Civil Rights
5
March for Life Action
March for life action takes the collective voice of millions of marchers to capitol hill all year round. we work to create a legislative culture at the federal and state levels where pro-life concerns are honored and pro-life legislation…
Civil Rights
6
Jewish Pro-Life Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
7
Pro-Life Charleston
Convert citizens to the truth that abortion kills babies, wounds families, and hurts society and so to help end abortion, to bring all souls into a deeper relationship with the creator.
Health
8
Table of Life Ministries
To empower man by sharing love of Christ
Religion
9
Operation Saving Life Inc
We are a passionate group of people who are showing the love of Jesus Christ by meeting the immediate needs of those who have faced abortion and chosen life.
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10
New Life Ministries
Religious broadcasting
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11
Ave Maria Communications
Ave Maria Communications employs radio, internet and other media to offer news, analysis, teaching, devotions and music to demonstrate the good news that Jesus is Lord over all areas of life. Through these means and activities we show that…
Religion
12
Speak for the Unborn
To champion life
Civil Rights
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Life League Inc and the most unlike its peers is Unbound. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$309,790Human Services$39,755Civil Rights$26,300Youth Development$25,050International$15,500Religion$1,800Public Benefit$500
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.
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.
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCA5.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: JMJ Maternity Homes.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 205611546 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on JMJ Maternity Homes, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 13% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Frances Saunders Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Frances Saunders Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines