Texas · Private foundation
Sadler Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,340,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 24
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $58M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Sadler Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 41 | $2.2M | 56% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $1.6M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $5.1M | 41% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $5.4M | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $2.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asha Partners | $9,847,739 | 4 | 72% |
| Full Armor Christian Academy | $1,276,237 | 4 | 78% |
| Dallas Baptist University | $500,258 | 4 | 0% |
| East Texas Baptist University | $438,049 | 3 | 0% |
| Wiseman Ministries Inc | $179,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Carlisle Baptist Church | $139,086 | 2 | n/a |
| Church Missions Network | $128,880 | 1 | 6% |
| Send Relief Inc | $125,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $105,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Mentoring Alliance | $60,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asha Partners | $9,847,739 | 4 | 72% |
| Full Armor Christian Academy | $1,276,237 | 4 | 78% |
| Dallas Baptist University | $500,258 | 4 | 0% |
| East Texas Baptist University | $438,049 | 3 | 0% |
| Wiseman Ministries Inc | $179,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Carlisle Baptist Church | $139,086 | 2 | n/a |
| Church Missions Network | $128,880 | 1 | 6% |
| Send Relief Inc | $125,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $105,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Mentoring Alliance | $60,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Liberty Counsel Inc | $55,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Promise Academy | $50,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Texas Baptist Men Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Path - People Attempting to Help | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Liberty University Inc | $23,827 | 2 | 0% |
| Skip Into Literacy Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Club of Rusk County | $14,700 | 4 | 1% |
| Carlisle Alumni Association | $14,400 | 3 | n/a |
| East Texas Angel Network Inc | $11,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $10,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Renaissance Club | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Henderson Food Bank | $9,304 | 3 | 6% |
| Holding Ukraine | $9,167 | 1 | n/a |
| Son Shine Light House Ministries | $3,500 | 1 | 1% |
| LeTourneau University | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Renew World Outreach Inc | $1,163 | 1 | n/a |
| Fat Boy Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Hiway 80 Rescue Mission | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $400 | 1 | 0% |
| Father Flanagan's Boys' Home | $150 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sadler Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: East Texas Communities Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · American Gift Fund · The Lc and Mary Worley Memorial Foundation · A S Genecov Foundation · Servant Foundation · The Tj & Laverne Plunkett Foundation · Riter Family Foundation · Mother Frances Hospital Regional Health Care Center · Rosa May Griffin Foundation · James I Perkins Family Foundation · The Crain Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sadler Family Foundation
- How much does Sadler Family Foundation give?
- Sadler Family Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $3,555,661 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 24 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Sadler Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (64%), Education (14%), Philanthropy (8%).
- Who are Sadler Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Asha Partners ($9.8M), Full Armor Christian Academy ($1.3M), Dallas Baptist University ($500k).
- Does Sadler Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sadler Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sadler Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Texas Communities Foundation, Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, American Gift Fund.
- Where is Sadler Family Foundation based?
- Sadler Family Foundation is based in TX.
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