· Private foundation
Sabatini Family Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k15 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $59k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAYDEN HIGH SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| ST LAWRENCE CATHOLIC CENTER | $25,000 |
| ST MATTHEW CHURCH | $14,000 |
| KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT | $10,000 |
| LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER | $10,000 |
| MULTICULTURAL SCHOLARS PROGRAM | $6,000 |
| FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF KC IN KANSAS | $5,000 |
| BAKER UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| THE VALEO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WASHBURN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOUND | $2,500 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $2,500 |
| WASHBURN WOMENS ALLIANCE | $2,000 |
| TOPEKA ZOO CONSERVATION CENTER | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- HHHAYDEN HIGH SCHOOL2× · 2021–2022 · $100k
- SMST MATTHEW CHURCH2× · 2021–2022 · $38k
- BUBAKER UNIVERSITY2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue -15%
Funded once
- TSTOPEKA SHAWNEE COUNTY LIBRARYone grant, 2022 · $30k
- SLST LAWRENCE CATHOLIC CENTERone grant, 2021 · $25k
- AOARCHDIOCESE OF KANSAS CITY IN KSone grant, 2022 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To protect and preserve lands of natural, ecological, scenic, historic, agricultural, or recreational significance in kansas.
Biokansas is the unified voice representing the biosciences in kansas. across the human, plant, animal and industrial biosciences, biokansas is focused on enhancing the business and research climate and working with leaders across the…
Engage in educational, scientific, and governmental efforts to conserve, develop, and improve the use of land, soil, water, plants, animals, and other natural resources within the state of kansas
Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.
The association is dedicated to advancing the professionalism and legal skills of lawyers, promoting the interests of the legal profession, providing services to its members, advocating positions on law-related issues, encouraging public…
To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…
The vision of the Association is optimal health for Kansans. The Association's mission is to be the leading advocate and resource for members.
Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.
The kansas cooperative council exists to promote, support and advance the interests, business success, and understanding of agricultural, utility, credit and consumer cooperatives and their members through legislation and regulatory…
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
The foundation shall further educational and cultural programs relating to zoological activities, establish and maintain zoological facilities, provide for the acquisition and care of species for display and study, and engage in collateral…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Topeka Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Second Chance Animal Refuge Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 32 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds TOPEKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAKER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VALEO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds JAYHAWK AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC COUNCIL 197 ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL REFUGE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE TOPEKA ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds Kansas State Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN TOPEKA INC ↗
- Who funds Ranchland Trust of Kansas Inc ↗
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.
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
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 Sabatini Family 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.
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.