· Private foundation
George & Muriel Saunders Family Fnd
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 $10k10 grants · $18k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $111k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $110,550 |
| COMMON GROUND | $5,000 |
| TROY PIKE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER | $4,300 |
| CAMPUS OUTREACH | $2,500 |
| SAV-A-LIFE | $2,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $1,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $900 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS | $650 |
| FELLOWSHIP | $600 |
| TROY ARTS COUNCIL | $450 |
| COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION | $400 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 27%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of your 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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 99% 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE3× · 2017–2020 · $4k · revenue +134%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $3k · revenue +50%- TATROY ARTS COUNCIL4× · 2021–2025 · $2k · revenue +641%
Funded once
- FOFILTER OF HOPE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +326%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $1k
- LFLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +164%
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.
To transform the lives of prisoners, their families, and victims through a global network of ministry partners.
Our mission. to seek out and save the lost and help the needy and also to spread the word of god as written in the holy bible.
Frontline missions actively develops and cultivates dynamic partnerships within the global church to empower and equip leaders to reach their nations for christ. instead of arriving at a community with our preconceived notions, frontline…
To reach out with the message of the gospel of jesus to the last, least, and the lost
This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.
The mission of the missionary image of our lady of guadalupe is to promote reverence of life, the end of the culture of death; the establishment of a culture of life and civilization of love and the triumph of the immaculate heart of mary.…
Our desire is to provide balanced, biblical direction to the child as a support to the home and to train each student to be self-disciplined and biblically directed in their walk with god and their fellow man. it is also our desire to meet…
Staying true to the foundation of combining jesus and justice, red letter christians mobilizes individuals into a movement of believers who live out jesus' counter-cultural teachings.
Praise broadcasting's (praisefm) vision is to see every tribe and nation experiencing jesus together. our mission is simple: together we help people discover and worship jesus. more than a radio station, praisefm is a place where…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Turning Point Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Troy-Pike Cultural Arts Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 22 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization George & Muriel Saunders Family Fnd 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.
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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