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Sarah Ketterer Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$2.8M
Granted FY2023
17
Grants FY2023
10
States reached
$900k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

5
’17
7
’18
13
’19
5
’20
5
’21
7
’22
12
’23
12
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$11MPublic Benefit$3.5MEnvironment$1.1MHealth$1.1MCivil Rights$1.0MEmployment$380kArts & Culture$200kScience & Tech$195kOther$0
02FY2023 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.4M
$50,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$55M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STANFORD UNIVERSITY- DE$900,000
FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION$500,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$500,000
AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY$250,000
STAND TOGETHER TRUST$250,000
UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER$75,000
GIRLS WHO INVEST$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
TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE- TUCK SCHOOL$25,000
FOOD FORWARD$25,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE$25,000
TRUSTEES OF LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%INSIGHT COUNSELING CENTERS: $10k → 14%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

NH
NY
MA
NV
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
KS
TN
DC
TX
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.7M · 21 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
15

Total granted

$9.7M
$732k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+11%

Still filing today

71%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthInternationalPublic BenefitSocial ScienceYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +11%
  • TS
    THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +170%
  • TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL
    5× · 2018–2023 · $760k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • AF
    Americans for Prosperity Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $350k · revenue -77%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +92%
  • Collegespring Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -24%
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.

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Association of California School Administrators

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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2
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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3
United States Naval Institute

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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4
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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5
The Common Application Inc

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…

Education
6
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
7
Furman University

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.

Education
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
9
Augustana College

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…

Education
10
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

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.

Education
11
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
12
Acec Research Institute

Acec research institute serve as the leading source of knowledge and thought leadership for creating a more sustainable, safe, secure, and technically advanced built environment. identify, fund, and provide industry wide research forecasts…

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Americans for Prosperity Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 48 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
22/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,820,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNI…THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC: $1,000,000 · EducationTHE SEMINAR NETWORK INCTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $760,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL+6 more: $465,000 · Education+6 moreSTANFORD UNIVERSITY- TRANSFORMING LEARNING ACCELERATOR: $1,500,000 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERSITY- TRANSFORMING…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,100,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYSTANFORD UNIVERSITY- DE: $900,000 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERSITY- DETRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE- TUCK SCHOOL: $330,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE- TU…CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC: $195,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $200,000 · Other+26 more: $1,262,000 · Other+26 moreStand Together Foundation: $2,350,000 · Public BenefitStand Together…+1 more: $50,000 · Public BenefitFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $1,000,000 · Civil RightsAMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY: $700,000 · Community ImprovementAmericans for Prosperity Foundation: $350,000 · Social ScienceAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $75,000 · Social ScienceGIRLS WHO INVEST INC: $380,000 · Employment
Education$8,045,000Other$5,487,000Public Benefit$2,400,000Civil Rights$1,000,000Community Improvement$700,000Social Science$425,000Employment$380,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,820,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetStand Together Foundation: $2,350,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE SEMINAR NETWORK INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $760,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY: $700,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS WHO INVEST INC: $380,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetAmericans for Prosperity Foundation: $350,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $200,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Entrepreneurs Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC: $195,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $190,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVILLAGE SCHOOL INC: $165,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFOOD FORWARD INC: $120,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCILS OF AMERICA: $100,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCollegespring Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPHOENIX MULTISPORT INC: $22,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPOLYTECHNIC SCHOOL: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPASTORAL COUNSELING CENTERS OF TENN: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE KATY TRAIL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKYIV SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE TO WORLD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTahoe Rim Trail Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTOP HONORS INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Elizabeth Bixby Janew…Communities Foundatio…Greater HorizonsAmerican Endowment Fo…Silicon Valley Commun…Vanguard Charitable E…Greater Houston Commu…The Ayco Charitable F…Morgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY14× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Sarah Ketterer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sarah Ketterer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Sarah Ketterer Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Sarah Ketterer Family 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 48 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.

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