Delaware · Private foundation
Sapphire Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $964k
- Granted FY2023
- 80
- Grants FY2023
- 67
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2023
- $5,500
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $52,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 54 to 67
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 8
- Total assets, FY2023
- $29M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Sapphire Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 67 | $964k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 62 | $1.1M | 31% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $811k | 48% |
| FY2020 | 54 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.
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, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Impact City Initiative | $297,500 | 4 | 99% |
| Visiting Nurse Association of Texas | $250,000 | 3 | 0% |
| My Possibilities | $181,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Dallas Theater Center | $175,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Trust for Public Land | $175,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Philanthropy Southwest | $157,400 | 4 | 4% |
| Interfaith Family Services | $145,000 | 3 | 3% |
| June Shelton School and Evaluation Center | $145,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Dallas Social Venture Partners | $141,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Southern Methodist University | $115,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 107 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($530k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sapphire Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 99 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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Addy Foundation · The Aileen and Jack Pratt Foundation · Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Sapphire Foundation Inc
- How much does Sapphire Foundation Inc give?
- Sapphire Foundation Inc reported 80 grants totaling $963,500 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 54 and 67 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Sapphire Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (19%), Education (17%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Sapphire Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Impact City Initiative ($298k), Visiting Nurse Association of Texas ($250k), My Possibilities ($182k).
- Does Sapphire Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sapphire Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sapphire Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, The Dallas Foundation, Hoblitzelle Foundation.
- Where is Sapphire Foundation Inc based?
- Sapphire Foundation Inc is based in DE.
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