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Sadler Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $164k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+4 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RENAISSANCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $1,340,000 |
| Asha Partners | $261,472 |
| EAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| WISEMAN MINISTRIES | $179,000 |
| FULL ARMOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $178,490 |
| Carlisle Baptist Church | $138,086 |
| CHURCH MISSIONS NETWORK | $128,880 |
| SEND RELIEF | $125,000 |
| Iglesia Baptiste Church | $112,506 |
| Samaritan's Purse | $100,000 |
| First Baptist Church | $82,721 |
| MENTORING ALLIANCE | $60,000 |
| PROMISE ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| TEXANS ON MISSION | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
24 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $713k 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
- FAFULL ARMOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY4× · 2022–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +106% · 78% of their budget
- DBDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY4× · 2022–2025 · $500k · revenue +25%
- ETEAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY3× · 2023–2025 · $438k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- SSSEE SUPPORTING SCHEDULEone grant, 2021 · $2.0M
- IFIntl Fellowship of Christian Jewone grant, 2024 · $25k
- SISKIP INTO LITERACY INCone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
The mission of truett mcconnell university, a georgia baptist university, is to equip students to fulfill the great comission by fostering a christian worldview through a biblically centered education in a family-friendly environment.
Howard payne university is a christ-centered academic community dedicated to excellence by developing and equipping the whole person for intellectual inquiry, personal and professional integrity, and service to god and humanity.
See schedule o. founded in 1902, university of northwestern - st. paul is a nondenominational christian university that integrates the educational philosophy of "faith, learning and living" through two focuses: higher education and media.…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
Faith's purpose is to mentor students for spirit-filled leadership in ministry, in light of the great commission. while academics are important, the classrooms are not the only learning place. through a combination of formal instruction,…
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.
The mission of baylor university is to educate men and women for worldwide leadership and service by integrating academic excellence and christian commitment within a caring community.
The mission of hardin-simmons university is to be a community dedicated to providing excellence in education enlightened by christian faith and values.
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mentoring Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 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. 24 of the 59 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 Asha Partners ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FULL ARMOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WISEMAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH MISSIONS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds MENTORING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PROMISE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PATH - PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO HELP ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF RUSK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS ANGEL NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds HENDERSON FOOD BANK ↗
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: 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
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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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