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Sagalyn Family Fund at a glance

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Sagalyn Family Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$174k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$229kArts & Culture$215kHuman Services$152kYouth Development$114kCrime & Legal$105kPublic Benefit$68kHealth$67kFood & Nutrition$32kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $121k
$4,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$983k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEACHERS OF GOD FOUNDATION (CENTER FOR AWAKENING INC)$26,900
VOCEL VIEWING OUR CHILDREN AS EMERGING LEADERS$20,000
GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT INC$18,000
TREVOR PROJECT INC$15,000
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC$11,000
SUPPORTING LITERACY AND MATH(SLAM)$10,000
TEACH PLUS INC$10,000
MIKVA CHALLENGE$10,000
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO$5,250
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILLINOIS$5,250
NEW CENTER FOR HOLISTIC LEARNING$5,000
KEEP RISING TO THE TOP (KR3T'S) INC$5,000
FILM FORUM INC$5,000
THE 100 HORSES WOMENS SOCIETY$4,000
MAINE BOYS TO MEN$3,500
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%REZ REFUGE: $2k → 28%ESSENTIAL PARTNERS INC: $20k → 8%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT INC: $18k → 20%ESSENTIAL PARTNERS INC: $17k → 8%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT INC: $16k → 20%PREBLE STREET: $3k → 7%ESSENTIAL PARTNERS INC: $4k → 8%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT: $12k → 20%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT: $11k → 20%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT: $9k → 20%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT: $8k → 20%WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT: $7k → 20%WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT: $6k → 20%WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT: $5k → 20%WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%CHIPS: $500 → 20%TIMOTHY COMMUNITY CORPORATION NFP: $2k → 14%ASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $2k → 14%BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $3k → 14%BRAVER ANGELS: $27k → 17%CENTER ON HALSTED: $2k → 14%BRAVER ANGELS: $4k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
IL
NY
MA
SD
IN
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
LA
AL
GA
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$993k · 48 repeat orgs$296k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
63

Total granted

$993k
$213k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+33%

Still filing today

65%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalCivil RightsHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • VV
    Vocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders
    9× · 2017–2025 · $84k · revenue +311%
  • MC
    MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2025 · $78k · revenue +47%
  • TP
    THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $71k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • GO
    GETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +75%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +4%
  • S
    Storycatchers
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -69%
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.

04Its 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
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
2
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
3
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
4
Council of Independent Colleges

The council of independent colleges is an association of nonprofit independent colleges and universities, state- based councils of independent colleges, and other higher education affiliates, that works to support college and university…

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5
Boston Architectural College

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

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6
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture
9
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
Justice Innovation Inc

The center for justice innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system and build strong, thriving communities.

Crime & Legal
12
Youth Represent Inc

Youth represent uses legal services, policy advocacy, peer education, and other tools to build power and opportunity for black, latine, and other youth of color who the criminal legal system and other systems of oppression harm the most.…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girl Be Heard Institute; the most unlike its peers is Girls Education Initiative of Ghana Us Inc. 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

78 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. 78 of the 128 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/78
Grantees still filing
55/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GET OUT STAY OUT: $40,000 · OtherGET OUT STAY OUTIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNYU EDELMAN LECTURE SERIES: $30,000 · OtherNYU EDELMAN LECTURE SERIESTEACHERS OF GOD FOUNDATION (CENTER FOR AWAKENING INC): $26,900 · OtherTEACHERS OF GOD FOUNDATION (CENTER FOR…BUILD INC: $19,000 · OtherStorycatchers: $15,000 · OtherThe Simple Good: $14,500 · OtherNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $20,000 · Other+68 more: $227,425 · Other+68 moreMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION: $77,500 · EducationMIKVA CHALLENGE GR…KEEP RISING TO THE TOP: $38,500 · EducationKEEP RISING TO THE…New York University: $30,000 · EducationNew York Universit…BARD COLLEGE: $19,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGESUPPORTING LITERACY AND MATH: $13,400 · EducationSUPPORTING LITERAC…HIGH JUMP: $12,500 · EducationHIGH JUMPBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $11,500 · EducationBROOKLYN PUBLIC LI…+5 more: $5,500 · EducationGROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECTINC: $90,500 · Human ServicesGROUNDSWELL COMMU…ESSENTIAL PARTNERS INC: $41,400 · Human ServicesESSENTIAL PARTNER…Braver AngelsInc: $30,500 · Human ServicesBraver AngelsIncWASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON AREA W…+7 more: $12,500 · Human Services+7 moreTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $71,320 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILLIPS …FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureFILM AT LINCO…FILM FORUM INC: $23,550 · Arts & CultureFILM FORUM IN…GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $7,020 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $5,250 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $23,600 · Arts & Culture+9 moreVocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders: $84,000 · Youth DevelopmentVocel Viewin…MAINE BOYS TO MEN: $61,000 · Youth DevelopmentMAINE BOYS T…GETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INC: $30,000 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION: $20,000 · Crime & LegalTHE BRONX DEFENDERS: $11,900 · Crime & LegalRECIPE FOR CHANGE: $11,000 · Crime & LegalEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS: $5,000 · Crime & LegalCOMPASSION PRISON PROJECT: $3,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $500 · Crime & LegalTREVOR PROJECT INC: $42,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $13,000 · Civil RightsFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $8,000 · Civil RightsHEARTLAND ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $3,000 · Civil Rights
Other$432,825Education$207,900Human Services$194,900Arts & Culture$155,740Youth Development$145,000Crime & Legal$81,400Civil Rights$71,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECTINC: $90,500 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetVocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders: $84,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION: $77,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $71,320 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMAINE BOYS TO MEN: $61,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $42,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetESSENTIAL PARTNERS INC: $41,400 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetKEEP RISING TO THE TOP: $38,500 over 8y, 7.5% of budgetBraver AngelsInc: $30,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNew York University: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFILM FORUM INC: $23,550 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $19,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBUILD INC: $19,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStorycatchers: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Simple Good: $14,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSUPPORTING LITERACY AND MATH: $13,400 over 2y, 20% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH JUMP: $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BRONX DEFENDERS: $11,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $11,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRECIPE FOR CHANGE: $11,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR AWAKENING INC: $9,800 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetSOME INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $7,020 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $5,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDream of Wild Health: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTLAND ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOETS HOUSE INC: $4,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE 100 HORSES WOMEN'S SOCIETY INC: $4,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetThe People's Music School: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPREBLE STREET: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION PRISON PROJECT: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SENTENCING PROJECT: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLL Society: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECTINC ↗
  • Who funds Vocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders ↗
  • Who funds MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
  • Who funds MAINE BOYS TO MEN ↗
  • Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds ESSENTIAL PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds KEEP RISING TO THE TOP ↗
  • Who funds Braver AngelsInc ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds GETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INC ↗
  • Who funds FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FILM FORUM INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION ↗
  • Who funds NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BUILD INC ↗
  • Who funds Storycatchers ↗
  • Who funds The Simple Good ↗
  • Who funds SUPPORTING LITERACY AND MATH ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds HIGH JUMP ↗
  • Who funds THE BRONX DEFENDERS ↗
  • Who funds Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds RECIPE FOR CHANGE ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR AWAKENING INC ↗
  • Who funds SOME INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM 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.

John D and Catherine …The Chicago Community…Polk Bros Foundation …Arie and Ida Crown Me…United Way of Metropo…The Ford FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…Tides FoundationImc Chicago Charitabl…Lloyd a Fry FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…The Hyde and Watson F…
John D and Catherine T Macarthur FoundationIL19.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Ford Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Tides Foundation · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson 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 Sagalyn Family Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sagalyn Family Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 128 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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