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Sadler Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$100k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$1.3MPhilanthropy$162kHealth$111kArts & Culture$65kRecreation & Sports$35kScience & Tech$20kCivil Rights$4kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION$20,000
WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY$20,000
UNITED WAY OF ERIE COUNTY$20,000
BUFFALO MUSEUM OF SCIENCE$10,000
CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOL$5,000
CANISIUS UNIVERSITY$5,000
BOULDER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$5,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$4,000
BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL$4,000
WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY$3,686
PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE$2,000
BUFFALO SEMINARY$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MARK J CZARNECKI MEMORIAL (PANCREATIC CANSER ACTION NETWORK): $5k → 14%OPEN ITEM - AZW06657: $10k → 13%GROTON SCHOOL: $50k → 16%CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOL: $5k → 12%JARROW MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $5k → 12%WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY ANNUAL FUND: $290k → 12%BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES: $10k → 13%GROTON SCHOOL: $49k → 16%CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOL: $5k → 12%JARROW MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $5k → 12%WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY: $201k → 12%BUFFALO MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $10k → 13%GROTON SCHOOL: $10k → 16%CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOL: $5k → 12%BOULDER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $5k → 12%WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY ANNUAL FUND: $192k → 12%BUFFALO MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $10k → 13%GROTON SCHOOL: $5k → 16%CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOL: $5k → 12%BOULDER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $5k → 12%WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY ANNUAL FUND: $191k → 12%BUFFALO MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $10k → 13%GROTON SCHOOL: $5k → 16%WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY: $40k → 12%BUFFALO MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $10k → 13%WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 12%BUFFALO MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $10k → 13%WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 12%BUFFALO MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $10k → 13%WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 12%BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES: $10k → 13%BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL: $14k → 20%WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 12%BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL: $7k → 20%UNITED WAY OF WESTERN NEW YORK: $20k → 13%BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL: $6k → 20%UNITED WAY OF WESTERN NEW YORK: $20k → 13%BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL: $6k → 20%UNITED WAY OF ERIE COUNTY: $20k → 13%BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL: $6k → 20%UNITED WAY OF ERIE COUNTY: $20k → 13%UNITED WAY OF WESTERN NEW YORK: $20k → 13%UNITED WAY OF ERIE COUNTY: $20k → 13%UNITED WAY OF ERIE COUNTY: $20k → 13%UNITED WAY OF WESTERN NEW YORK: $20k → 13%CANISIUS COLLEGE: $10k → 13%CANISIUS COLLEGE: $5k → 13%CANISIUS COLLEGE: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 21 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
8

Total granted

$1.7M
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+30%

Still filing today

67%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEnvironmentHealthOther

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

  • Washington and Lee University
    6× · 2017–2024 · $325k · revenue +15%
  • BS
    BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $81k · revenue +20%
  • TB
    THE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • MJ
    MARK J CZARNECKI MEMORIAL (PANCREATIC CANSER ACTION NETWORK)
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • ES
    ELMWOOD-FRANKLIN SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -20%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Louisville Collegiate School

Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.

Education
2
Cape Fear Academy

To operate a private school for pre-kindergarten through grade 12 in Wilmington, NC

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

4
The Charleston Museum

To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.

Arts & Culture
5
Buckley Country Day School

The school's mission is grounded in the belief expressed by b. lord buckley that opening the eyes and awakening the mind is the essence of education. guided by that mission for almost a century, buckley has purposely focused on developing…

Education
6
Charlotte Country Day School

Through excellence in education, charlotte country day school develops the potential of each student by fostering intellectual curiosity, principled character, ethical leadership and a responsibility to serve. the key values and…

Education
7
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
8
South Buffalo Charter School

South buffalo charter school provides elementary education to students in grades kindergarten through eighth grade. we are a professional learning community. our focus on learning is driven by research, data and collaborative reflection to…

Education
9
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
10
Compass Charter School

Compass charter school is a safe and nurturing educational environment that honors the individuality of each learner. by engaging in a process of inquiry, our graduates will be equipped with the necessary skills to lead fulfilling personal…

Education
11
Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education
12
Bronx Charter School for Excellence

Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Berkeley Carroll School and the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

20 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY ANNUAL FUND — $672,375 · OtherWASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY ANNUAL FUNDGROTON SCHOOL — $118,707 · OtherGROTON SCHOOLUNITED WAY OF WESTERN NEW YORK — $80,323 · OtherUNITED WAY OF WESTERN NEW YORKUNITED WAY OF ERIE COUNTY — $80,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF ERIE COUNTY+8 more — $50,389 · OtherWashington and Lee University — $325,435 · EducationWashington and Lee UniversityTHE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL — $47,500 · EducationTHE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOLCANISIUS UNIVERSITY — $45,673 · EducationCANISIUS UNIVERSITYCHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC — $33,000 · EducationCHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC+4 more — $15,500 · EducationROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION — $100,816 · Philanthropy+2 more — $3,500 · PhilanthropyBUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES — $80,524 · Arts & CultureChildren's Museum of the Lowcountry — $5,000 · Arts & CulturePROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC — $22,000 · Recreation & SportsThe Charleston Parks Conservancy — $10,500 · EnvironmentCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthSouth Carolina Aquarium — $500 · Animals
Other$1,001,794Education$467,108Philanthropy$104,316Arts & Culture$85,524Recreation & Sports$22,000Environment$10,500Health$5,000Animals$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWashington and Lee University — $325,435 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION — $100,816 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES — $80,524 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL — $47,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCANISIUS UNIVERSITY — $45,673 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC — $33,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC — $22,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Charleston Parks Conservancy — $10,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFUND FOR THE NEW SCHOOL BOULDER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetELMWOOD-FRANKLIN SCHOOL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Museum of the Lowcountry — $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBUFFALO SEMINARY — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPECONIC HOCKEY FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD FRIENDS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSouth Carolina Aquarium — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Washington and Lee University
  • Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
  • Who funds THE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL
  • Who funds CANISIUS UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOLINC
  • Who funds PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC
  • Who funds The Charleston Parks Conservancy
  • Who funds FUND FOR THE NEW SCHOOL BOULDER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ELMWOOD-FRANKLIN SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds Children's Museum of the Lowcountry
  • Who funds BUFFALO SEMINARY
  • Who funds PECONIC HOCKEY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds DEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER
  • Who funds GOOD FRIENDS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY
  • Who funds South Carolina Aquarium
  • Who funds EDUCATION ELEVATORS FOUNDATION 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.

Guffey Family FoundationNJ13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Guffey Family Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Sadler 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.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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