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Sarah Ketterer Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
63% of Sarah Ketterer Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 12 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Sarah Ketterer Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
- $250k+5 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY- DE | $900,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION | $500,000 |
| AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY | $250,000 |
| STAND TOGETHER TRUST | $250,000 |
| GIRLS WHO INVEST | $75,000 |
| UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER | $75,000 |
| WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF AMERICA | $50,000 |
| ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE | $25,000 |
| FOOD FORWARD | $25,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE- TUCK SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k 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
- TSTHE SEMINAR NETWORK INC2× · 2022–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +170%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +11%
TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL5× · 2018–2023 · $760k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- AFAmericans for Prosperity Foundationone grant, 2019 · $350k · revenue -77%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +92%
Collegespring Incone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -24%
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 association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
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Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Americans for Prosperity Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 48 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 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Stand Together Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ↗
- Who funds GIRLS WHO INVEST INC ↗
- Who funds Americans for Prosperity Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Youth Entrepreneurs Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCILS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Collegespring Inc ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL ↗
- Who funds THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX MULTISPORT INC ↗
- Who funds VISION TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
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: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Elizabeth Bixby Janeway Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Greater Horizons · American Endowment Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Sarah Ketterer 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.
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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