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Sabatini Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$172k
Granted FY2021
20
Grants FY2021
20
Organizations funded FY2021
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63% of Sabatini Family Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Topeka Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 10 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Sabatini Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $172k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

7
’21
10
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2021
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$75,000
States reached, FY2021
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2022.

Philanthropy$250kEducation$193kReligion$89kArts & Culture$16kHealth$5kYouth Development$4kAnimals$3kInternational$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hayden High School$100,0002n/a
Baker University$15,00020%
Lawrence Arts Center Inc$15,00020%
Valeo Foundation$5,00013%
Junior Achievement of Kansas Inc$2,50010%
Jayhawk Area Council of Boy Scouts of America Inc Council 197$1,00020%
Second Chance Animal Refuge Society$50010%
Friends of the Topeka Zoo Inc$50010%
Shawnee County Historical Society$5001n/a
Kansas State Historical Society Inc$50010%
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All grantees of Sabatini Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hayden High School$100,0002n/a
Baker University$15,00020%
Lawrence Arts Center Inc$15,00020%
Valeo Foundation$5,00013%
Junior Achievement of Kansas Inc$2,50010%
Jayhawk Area Council of Boy Scouts of America Inc Council 197$1,00020%
Second Chance Animal Refuge Society$50010%
Friends of the Topeka Zoo Inc$50010%
Shawnee County Historical Society$5001n/a
Kansas State Historical Society Inc$50010%
Kansas Silent Film Festival$2501n/a
Downtown Topeka Inc$25010%
Ranchland Trust of Kansas Inc$25010%

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($176k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sabatini Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBaker University: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLawrence Arts Center Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetValeo Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetJunior Achievement of Kansas Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJayhawk Area Council of Boy Scouts of America Inc Council 197: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSecond Chance Animal Refuge Society: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of the Topeka Zoo Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKansas State Historical Society Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDowntown Topeka Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRanchland Trust of Kansas Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Topeka Community FoundationKS17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Topeka Community Foundation · Blanche Bryden Foundation · Douglas County Community Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Sabatini Family Foundation

How much does Sabatini Family Foundation give?
Sabatini Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $172,007 in its FY2021 IRS filing.
What does Sabatini Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2022, its largest causes are Philanthropy (44%), Education (34%), Religion (16%).
Who are Sabatini Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2022: Hayden High School ($100k), Baker University ($15k), Lawrence Arts Center Inc ($15k).
Does Sabatini Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sabatini Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Topeka Community Foundation, Blanche Bryden Foundation, Douglas County Community Foundation.
Where is Sabatini Family Foundation based?
Sabatini Family Foundation is based in KS.

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 32 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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