Delaware · Private foundation
Sa Ming 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.
- $23k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2024
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of Sa Ming Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Sa Ming Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $23k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Sa Ming Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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 | 9 | $20k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $35k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $34k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $29k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $28k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $29k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $22k | 54% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $17k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Island Trust | $36,100 | 7 | 0% |
| Folds of Honor Foundation | $20,220 | 8 | 0% |
| South Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc | $11,500 | 7 | 0% |
| College of the Mainland Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Music for Life | $10,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Smithsonian Institution | $9,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood South Atlantic Inc | $8,650 | 9 | 0% |
| Hopeful Horizons | $7,250 | 7 | 0% |
| Stetson University Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Spring Island Trust Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($77k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sa Ming Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Laurel Charitable Trust · Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Heritage Classic Foundation · The Susan Morrow Legacy Foundation · Worldwide Small Change Foundation Co Roy Kaufmann · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas
How this is measured
About Sa Ming Foundation
- How much does Sa Ming Foundation give?
- Sa Ming Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $22,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Sa Ming Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (55%), Education (20%), Animals (8%).
- Who are Sa Ming Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Spring Island Trust ($36k), Folds of Honor Foundation ($20k), South Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc ($12k).
- Does Sa Ming Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sa Ming 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 Sa Ming Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Lowcountry, Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, Laurel Charitable Trust.
- Where is Sa Ming Foundation based?
- Sa Ming Foundation is based in DE.
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