· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| JMJ MATERNITY HOMES | $1,500 |
| PRIESTS FOR LIFE | $1,500 |
| CATHOLIC BISHOP OF NORTHERN ALASKA | $1,000 |
| STUDENTS FOR LIFE OF AMERICA | $1,000 |
| FOOD FOR THE POOR | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOC | $500 |
| ANUGRAHA ACT INC | $500 |
| WORLD VILLAGES FOR CHILDREN | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 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.
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
How this is measured
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 +135%
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 49 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.
- 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 Students for Life of America Inc ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Frances Saunders Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frances Saunders Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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