Arizona · Private foundation
Penny and Robert Sarver Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $5.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2024
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 89%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $5,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $203k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 89% of the organizations Penny and Robert Sarver Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 95% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 8 | $5.6M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $7.1M | 89% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $518k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $246k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $200k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $576k | 70% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $354k | 54% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $418k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Arizona Foundation | $5,100,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Phoenix Suns Charities Inc | $5,000,000 | 1 | 61% |
| Ethiopia Health Aid Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 94% |
| Arizona Jewish Historical Society | $510,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Tucson Jewish Community Center Inc | $275,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Valley of the Sun Jewish Community Center Inc | $272,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Claremont McKenna College | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Barrow Neurological Foundation | $150,000 | 5 | 0% |
| California Hospital Medical Center Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Thurgood Marshall Center Trust Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 12% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Penny and Robert Sarver Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Maccabee Task Force Foundation · Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life · Arizona Community Foundation · Seed the Dream Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · Rosenbluth Family Charitable Foundation · Israel on Campus Coalition Inc · Friedel Family Foundation · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · American Express Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Penny and Robert Sarver Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About Penny and Robert Sarver Charitable Foundation
- How much does Penny and Robert Sarver Charitable Foundation give?
- Penny and Robert Sarver Charitable Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $5,722,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Penny and Robert Sarver Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (39%), Human Services (35%), International (7%).
- Who are Penny and Robert Sarver Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Arizona Foundation ($5.1M), Phoenix Suns Charities Inc ($5.0M), Ethiopia Health Aid Inc ($1.0M).
- Does Penny and Robert Sarver Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 89% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Penny and Robert Sarver Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Penny and Robert Sarver Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maccabee Task Force Foundation, Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, Arizona Community Foundation.
- Where is Penny and Robert Sarver Charitable Foundation based?
- Penny and Robert Sarver Charitable Foundation is based in AZ.
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