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Helen and Harry Saul 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.

$293k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$83k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.5MPhilanthropy$1.7MHealth$518kYouth Development$246kHuman Services$99kArts & Culture$92kReligion$91kEmployment$90kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $133k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$18k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER CHAT$82,500
UNITED WAY TOCQUEVILLE SOCIETY$50,000
ORT AMERICA - ATLANTA$30,000
THE UNITED WAY OF N GA$15,000
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH$10,000
SHEPHERD CENTER$10,000
EMORY UNIVERSITY$10,000
NW GA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER$10,000
NYU LANGONE HEALTH$10,000
FLOOR COVERING INDUSTRY FOUNDATION$10,000
CHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA$5,000
WHITFIELD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$5,000
BOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICA OF NW GA$5,000
RAMAH DAROM$5,000
CREATIVE ARTS GUILD$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%KAVOD: $200 → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $1k → 13%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $1k → 13%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $1k → 13%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $1k → 13%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $1k → 13%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $1k → 13%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $1k → 13%WEINSTEIN HOSPICE: $100 → 13%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $1k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
OH
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
MS
AL
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 63 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
43

Total granted

$3.3M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+32%

Still filing today

54%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SC
    SHEPHERD CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +59%
  • EU
    Emory University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +80%
  • NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH
    9× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • DS
    DALTON STATE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $2.0M
  • OA
    ORT AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -30%
  • HO
    HILLEL OF GEORGIA TECH
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Medical Center of Central Georgia Inc

To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.

Health
2
Morehouse School of Medicine

Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…

Education
3
Georgia Hospital Association

The georgia hospital association (gha) serves approximately 150 hospitals throughout georgia. its purpose is to promote the health and welfare of the public through the development of better health care for all of georgia's citizens. gha…

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4
Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
5
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
6
Navicent Health Inc

Navicent health's mission is to elevate health and well-being through compassionate care for all. our values are integrity, respect, ownership, and caring. navicent health, inc. is a nonprofit corporation whose primary purpose is to serve…

Health
7
Shands Jacksonville Healthcare Inc

As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…

Health
8
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
9
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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10
Gaston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
11
Piedmont Hospital Inc

To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.

Health
12
St Martin Hospital Inc

To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Grady Health Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Georgia Prevention Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 110 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
44/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DALTON STATE FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 · OtherDALTON STATE FOUNDATIONJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER CHAT: $795,300 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER CHATTHE UNITED WAY: $640,000 · OtherTHE UNITED WAYORT AMERICA - ATLANTA: $240,000 · OtherTHE UNITED WAY OF N GA: $170,000 · Other+70 more: $835,387 · Other+70 moreSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $140,000 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $73,000 · HealthGEORGIA PREVENTION PROJECT INC: $40,000 · HealthWHITFIELD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $34,000 · Health+9 more: $23,000 · HealthEmory University: $93,000 · EducationGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $71,700 · EducationMOSE & GARRISON SISKIN MEMORIAL FDN INC D/B/A SISKIN CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $23,500 · Education+3 more: $4,300 · EducationNorthwest Georgia Family Crisis Center: $70,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP HOUSE INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $6,100 · Human Services+2 more: $300 · Human ServicesCreative Arts Guild Incorporated: $45,000 · Arts & CultureINSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE: $6,000 · Arts & CultureHunter Museum of American Art: $5,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,000 · Arts & CultureDALTON DANCE COMPANY THE DALTON ARTS COMPANY: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $1,500 · Arts & CultureGSGA FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $30,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 · International
Other$4,680,687Health$310,000Education$192,500Human Services$84,400Arts & Culture$65,500Recreation & Sports$45,000International$35,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $140,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $93,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $73,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $71,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwest Georgia Family Crisis Center: $70,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCreative Arts Guild Incorporated: $45,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetGSGA FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetGEORGIA PREVENTION PROJECT INC: $40,000 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetHillels of Georgia Inc: $40,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWHITFIELD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $34,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $30,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetORT AMERICA INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMOSE & GARRISON SISKIN MEMORIAL FDN INC D/B/A SISKIN CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $23,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetOSCAR N JONAS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $13,500 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $9,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOUSE INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORT COUNCIL INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $6,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN W LOOPER JR SPEECH AND HEARING CENTER: $6,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHRJ CHARITIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHunter Museum of American Art: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DALTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budget1000 FRIENDS OF FLORIDA INC: $3,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA GROUP HOME INC: $3,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetEAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDALTON DANCE COMPANY THE DALTON ARTS COMPANY: $3,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN TOP BOYS HOME INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJORDAN THOMAS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALTON STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Home Life Communities Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE CHARITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe William Breman Jewish Home Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNashville Symphony Association: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHATT FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAVOD: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Northwest Georgia Family Crisis Center ↗
  • Who funds Creative Arts Guild Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds GSGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA PREVENTION PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Hillels of Georgia Inc ↗
  • Who funds WHITFIELD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MOSE & GARRISON SISKIN MEMORIAL FDN INC D/B/A SISKIN CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds OSCAR N JONAS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE 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.

The Anita and Julian Saul Foundation IncTN28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Anita and Julian Saul Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia Inc · Kenneth E Boring Charitable Foundation Inc · The Anna Sue and Bob Shaw Foundation · White Family Foundation Inc · The Marcus Foundation Inc · The Jack and Aggie Bandy Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Mohawk Carpet Foundation Inc · The Zaban Foundation Inc · Lebovitz Family Charitable Trust · Cooper Family Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Helen and Harry Saul Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Helen and Harry Saul Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Helen and Harry Saul Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Helen and Harry Saul Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 110 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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