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Robert a Saccaro Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$71k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
17%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 7
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$2.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Robert a Saccaro Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthCrime & LegalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$71k0%
FY20246$105k17%
FY20237$120k57%
FY20226$125k33%
FY20217$150k43%
FY20204$135k50%
FY20196$120kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$370kHuman Services$165kHealth$95kAnimals$56kCrime & Legal$30kArts & Culture$15kInternational$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Robert a Saccaro Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Eton Academy$220,00071%
Salvation Army$160,0006n/a
California State University Fresno Alumni Association Incorporated$100,00033%
Michigan Humane Society$51,15060%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$30,00020%
Sparrow Freedom Project$30,000114%
Stand Up to Cancer$10,00010%
Shriners Hospitals for Children$10,00010%
Holocaust Memorial Center Inc$10,00010%
Youth on Their Own$5,00010%
Stagecrafters$5,00011%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($195k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert a Saccaro Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEton Academy: $220,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCalifornia State University Fresno Alumni Association Incorporated: $100,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetMichigan Humane Society: $51,150 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSparrow Freedom Project: $30,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetStand Up to Cancer: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHolocaust Memorial Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYouth on Their Own: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStagecrafters: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Robert a Saccaro Foundation

How much does Robert a Saccaro Foundation give?
Robert a Saccaro Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $71,150 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Robert a Saccaro Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (45%), Human Services (20%), Health (11%).
Who are Robert a Saccaro Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Eton Academy ($220k), Salvation Army ($160k), California State University Fresno Alumni Association Incorporated ($100k).
Does Robert a Saccaro Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robert a Saccaro Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Robert a Saccaro Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Robert a Saccaro Foundation based?
Robert a Saccaro Foundation is based in MI.

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 19 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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