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Margaretha & John L Sauer Foundation

Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$120k
Granted FY2017
21
Grants FY2017
11
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k18 grants · $71k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $49k
$4,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$22,265
COMMUNITY CARING COUNCIL$17,000
LIFELINE FOR PETS$10,000
HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL$7,000
SAN DIEGO NICE GUYS$6,000
CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL$5,500
HILINSKI FOUNDATION FOR SURGERY$5,500
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS LAREDO$4,900
A WIDER CIRCLE$4,800
LA GOAL$4,800
NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$4,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$4,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$4,000
NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$3,000
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION$3,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HILINSKI FOUNDATION FOR SURGERY: $6k → 11%LA GOAL: $5k → 14%NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $4k → 17%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS LAREDO: $5k → 21%HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 17%AMERICAN LEGION 18 FRANK FRIED: $3k → 17%NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $3k → 14%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $3k → 18%COMMUNITY CARING COUNCIL: $17k → 14%FRIENDS OF ARCHES AND CANYONLAND PARKS: $3k → 11%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $22k → 14%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $4k → 7%A WIDER CIRCLE: $5k → 8%CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL: $6k → 14%NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $3k → 17%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $896 → 14%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $3k → 7%HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $7k → 14%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $4k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your 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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Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
4
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

5
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
6
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
7
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
8
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
9
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
10
Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals
11
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
12
Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Lifeline for Pets Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $7,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYSan Diego Nice Guys Inc — $6,000 · OtherSan Diego Nice Guys IncHILINSKI FOUNDATION FOR SURGERY — $5,500 · OtherHILINSKI FOUNDATION FOR SURGE…CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL — $5,500 · OtherCATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOLLA GOAL — $4,800 · OtherLA GOALAMERICAN LEGION 18 FRANK FRIED — $2,500 · OtherAMERICAN LEGION 18 FRANK FRIE…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $23,161 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE &…COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI — $17,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHI…Communities In Schools of Laredo Inc — $4,900 · Community ImprovementCommunities In Schoo…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $7,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURC…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $4,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL D…NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $3,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS …FRIENDS OF ARCHES&CANYONLANDS PARKS BATES WILSON LEGACY FUND — $2,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF ARCH…HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL — $7,000 · EducationHARVARD-WES…A WIDER CIRCLE INC — $4,800 · EducationA WIDER CIR…Lifeline for Pets Inc — $10,000 · AnimalsLifeline …SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $3,000 · Crime & LegalHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL — $2,500 · International
Other$31,300Health$23,161Community Improvement$21,900Environment$16,500Education$11,800Animals$10,000Crime & Legal$3,000International$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $23,161 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Diego Nice Guys Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCommunities In Schools of Laredo Inc — $4,900 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLA GOAL — $4,800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ARCHES&CANYONLANDS PARKS BATES WILSON LEGACY FUND — $2,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budget
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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 organization Margaretha & John L Sauer 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • A Wider Circle Inc6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report 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, FY2025

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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How do I get to Margaretha & John L Sauer Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Margaretha & John L Sauer 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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