· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THE VALEO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF KC IN KANSAS | $5,000 |
| BAKER UNIVERSITY | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sabatini Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sabatini Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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