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Jake and Jennie Sabel Educational Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Jake and Jennie Sabel Educational Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$87k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$462k
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,300
Median grant
3
States reached
$972k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FBO AKIYAH SMITH$4,300
EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FBO CARI BELLA FOWLER$4,300
EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FBO REBECCA WOOD$4,300
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY FBO JADA MIL$4,300
KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE FBO SYDNE$4,300
MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FBO KAYLEE$4,300
HOPKINSVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FBO$4,300
MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FBO MOLLIE$4,300
HOPKINSVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FBO$4,300
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY FBO DYLAN BA$4,300
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FBO ELIZA RENSHAW$4,300
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY FBO CATHERIN$4,300
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FBO AMARI NORTHINGTON$4,300
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY FBO ALYSSA MEYER$4,300
TREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY FBO SKYLAR KIRBY$4,300
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%COLUMBIA STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FB: $3k → 10%TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FBO BEYO: $4k → 14%CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY FBO QUEINA: $4k → 13%FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE FBO CAROLINA CHAUDION: $4k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FBO ELIZA RENSHAW: $4k → 18%GEORGETOWN COLLEGE FBO ABIGAIL MOSS: $4k → 8%MIDWAY COLLEGE FBO DESHAUN BIBBS: $4k → 10%THOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY FBO TYQUEZ D: $3k → 11%KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE FBO SYDNE: $4k → 13%KENTUCKY STATE UNIVERSITY FBO JAYLA: $3k → 14%CENTRE COLLEGE FBO JAMES KINNEY: $4k → 15%BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY FBO ABENI THO: $3k → 15%EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FBO REBECCA WOOD: $4k → 16%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FBO AMAIYA OGBURN: $4k → 18%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FBO LUKE LU: $4k → 19%LINDSEY WILSON COLLEGE FBO TREY BLANTON: $4k → 22%UNION COLLEGE FBO CONNOR LACKEY: $3k → 33%TREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY FBO SKYLAR KIRBY: $4k → 14%MIDWAY COLLEGE FBO LANTANA HIGHT: $3k → 10%KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE FBO MARY ELLA BROWN: $4k → 13%EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FBO CARI BELLA FOWLER: $4k → 16%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FBO GRACE MCCARLEY: $4k → 18%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FBO DEVIN KING: $4k → 19%LINDSEY WILSON COLLEGE FBO TYLER GR: $3k → 22%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FBO REESE DEXTER: $4k → 18%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FBO MOLLIE: $4k → 19%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FBO RYL: $4k → 18%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FBO LESLEE COOK: $4k → 19%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FBO KARENNA CHAUDION: $4k → 18%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FBO GARY CONNOR: $4k → 19%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FBO GRACEY MEACHAM: $4k → 19%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FBO MASON G: $4k → 19%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FBO SILAS J: $4k → 19%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FBO BROOKE: $4k → 19%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FBO MADELINE EZELL: $4k → 19%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FBO EMMALEE WEST: $4k → 19%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FBO MCKENZI: $4k → 19%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FBO NATHAN MORRIS: $4k → 19%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FBO ADDISON PIATT: $4k → 19%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FBO KAYLEE: $4k → 19%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FBO TY EBBI: $4k → 19%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FBO MADISON: $4k → 19%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FBO CLAIRE: $4k → 19%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FBO LUCAS GAMBLE: $4k → 19%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FBO JORDAN: $4k → 19%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FBO LEINYTH: $4k → 19%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FBO MAGGIE: $4k → 19%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FBO KYLIE B: $4k → 19%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.
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 field
04the grantee network

3 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. 3 of the 105 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
1/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOPKINSVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FBO: $32,988 · OtherHOPKINSVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FBO+101 more: $417,500 · Other+101 moreCENTRE COLLEGE: $4,300 · EducationTREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $4,300 · EducationUNION COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY: $3,250 · Education
Other$450,488Education$11,850

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTRE COLLEGE: $4,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $4,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNION COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY: $3,250 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jake and Jennie Sabel Educational Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jake and Jennie Sabel Educational Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 105 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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