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Saep Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$255k
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$123k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON$3,000
BLAIR ACADEMY$1,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 25% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GROTON SCHOOL: $10k → 8%ESPARANZA ACADEMY: $2k → 10%FAY SCHOOL: $10k → 11%HARWARD WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $10k → 14%TEACHERS DELEGATION: $42k → 6%BLAIR ACADEMY: $2k → 7%HUN SCHOOL: $30k → 11%BREWSTER ACADEMY: $30k → 9%KIMBALL UNION ACADEMY: $40k → 10%HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $3k → 11%BREWSTER ACADEMY: $12k → 9%KIMBALL UNION ACADEMY: $25k → 10%NEW GRANGE SCHOOL: $10k → 11%BREWSTER ACADEMY: $5k → 9%KIMBALL UNION ACADEMY: $25k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
The Branson School

To provide an academically exceptional education to students grade 9 through 12 in a warm, supportive, and nurturing environment.

Education
2
West Nottingham Academy

To inspire and educate students to become socially aware leaders and innovators who positively impact their communities around the world

Education
3
Trustees of Lawrence Academy At Groton Ma Corp

Lawrence academy recognizes you for who you are, inspires you to take responsibility for who you want to become, supports you as you learn, and empowers you to take action for the greater good.

Education
4
Bridgton Academy

To provide a program for young men in a unique, one-year postgraduate environment to prepare for the rigors of college and beyond.

Education
5
Hillbrook School

Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…

Education
6
Darrow School

Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…

Education
7
Brown School

Running a private school.

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8
Breck School

We create confident learners who lead lives of intellectual curiosity, self-knowledge, and social responsibility.

Education
9
Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy

Together, we teach and learn skills that foster the courage to discover our voices, develop old and new passions, practice balance in the pursuit of excellence, and collaborate in building vibrant,inclusive, and sustainable communities.

Education
10
Concord Academy

Concord academy is a community animated by love of learning, diverse and striving for equity, with common trust as our foundation. honoring each individual, we challenge and expand our understanding of ourselves and the world through…

Education
11
Tabor Academy

Tabor academy focuses its academic programs to inspire a life-long love of learning, to instill a passion for the highest standards of achievement, to encourage personal responsibility, and to foster care for others and committed…

Education
12
Suffield Academy

Suffield Academy is a coeducational independent secondary school serving a diverse student body of day and boarding students from across the United States and from many foreign counties. The school is grounded in a tradition of academic…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Hun School of Princeton; the most unlike its peers is Brewster Academy. 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

8 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. 8 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KIMBALL UNION ACADEMY: $90,000 · EducationKIMBALL UNION ACADEMYBrewster Academy: $46,760 · EducationBrewster AcademyTHE FAY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · EducationTHE FAY SCHOOL INCHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOLGROTON SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationGROTON SCHOOL+3 more: $6,500 · EducationIndividual grant recipient: $42,193 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHUN SCHOOL: $30,000 · OtherHUN SCHOOLNEW GRANGE SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherNEW GRANGE SCHOOL
Education$173,260Other$82,193

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKIMBALL UNION ACADEMY: $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBrewster Academy: $46,760 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FAY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROTON SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUN SCHOOL OF PRINCETON: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetESPERANZA ACADEMY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLAIR ACADEMY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Fidelity FoundationMA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Saep Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Saep Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
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no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Esperanza Academy Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Saep Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Saep Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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