How much did SAKS FIFTH AVENUE FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of SAKS FIFTH AVENUE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

ny-presbyteriandown syndrome

2022

food bank

2023

mental healthyouth

2024

person

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k12 grants · $285k
$50k–250k7 grants · $900k

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

Girls Inc$150,000
Bring Change to Mind$150,000
Columbia University Department of Psychiatry$150,000
The Trevor Project$150,000
Inspiring Children Foundation - Jewel Never Broken$150,000
NewYork-Presbyterian Youth Anxiety Center$100,000
Kering Foundation$50,000
Centro Sanar$30,000
Hetrick-Martin Institute$30,000
The Safe Sisters Circle$30,000
Pregnant with Possibilities Resource Center$30,000
Korean Community Service Center of Greater Washing$30,000
Junior's House Inc$25,000
The Bowery Mission$25,000
FIT Social Justice Center$25,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 40% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.6M · 9 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +195% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.6M

$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+195%

+30%

Still filing today

22%

63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $335k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesCivil RightsEducationCommunity ImprovementOther

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

GI
Girls Inc
4× · 2021–2024 · $600k · revenue +195%
The Trevor Project
4× · 2021–2024 · $550k · revenue +459%
IC
Inspiring Children Foundation
2× · 2021–2022 · $200k · revenue +87%

Funded once

NY
NY-Presbyterian YAC
one grant, 2021 · $300k
N
NY-Presbyterian
one grant, 2021 · $250k
CU
Columbia University Medical Center
one grant, 2021 · $250k

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.

Impact Family Counseling

Provide comprehensive, faith-based counseling services to troubled youth and their families through the use of trained professional counselors, therapists, and volunteers.

Crime & Legal

Institute for Mental Health & Wellness

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Domestic Abuse Intervention

Domestic abuse intervention programs is a nonprofit agency that works towards the elimination of violence in the lives of women and their children.

Human Services

Mental Health America of Los Angeles

Mental health services, advocacy, workforce training, and education.

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Our House Therapy Collective

Mental health services family and group therapy

Health

Crisis Intervention of Houston Incorporated

The mission of Crisis Intervention is to help people in crisis. Crisis Intervention provides 24/7 crisis counseling to persons in mental health trauma or dealing with suicide ideation. In FY 22_23, Crisis Intervention facilitated 35,812…

Human Services

The Summit Counseling Center Inc

provides prof. counseling psychological testing school-based therapy suicide prevention & mental health aware- ness education using an integrative approach to treat the whole person

Human Services

American Mental Health Counselors

To enhance the profession of mental health counseling through licensing, advocacy, education and professional development.

Arts & Culture

Thrive Behavioral Health Inc

Thrive behavioral health is inspiring hope and empowering the lives of individuals and families facing behavioral health challenges through an extensive range of mental health services, substance use treatment, educational programs, and…

Health

Institute for Children's Mental

Philanthropy

Turtle Creek Valley Mental HealthMental

Providing drug and alcohol, mental health, and intellectual and developmental disabilities

Health

Inseparable Inc

Inseparable Inc is a mental health organization focused on building a social movement with the power to raise awareness and change the public dialogue about mental health policies which will improve lives and care for millions of Americans.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Emotional and Mental Health Collec and the most unlike its peers is National Down Syndrome Society. 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 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/25

the rest of the field

10,118/120,735

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.

05the grantee network

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/25

Grantees still filing

19/25

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,940,000Youth Development$680,000Civil Rights$550,000Health$330,000Human Services$75,000Community Improvement$60,000Crime & Legal$20,000

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.

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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY10.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organisation SAKS FIFTH AVENUE 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Inspiring Children Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing; revenue up +87% since.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 453042744 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Inspiring Children Foundation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 20% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Saks Fifth Avenue Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Saks Fifth Avenue Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SAKS FIFTH AVENUE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Saks Fifth Avenue Foundation?

More from the funding graph

SAKS FIFTH AVENUE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Saks Fifth Avenue Foundation?

More from the funding graph