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Sarah W George Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$125k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 10
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$936k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Sarah W George Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$125k0%
FY20247$108k0%
FY20237$101k0%
FY202210$191k60%
FY20211$10k0%
FY20208$93k25%
FY20195$58k40%
FY20187$66k29%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$280kHuman Services$257kEducation$100kEnvironment$75kHousing & Shelter$55kArts & Culture$41kHealth$30kReligion$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lake Cares Inc$280,00092%
Hand in Hand Lake County Inc$127,50077%
Trout Lake Nature Center Inc$75,000313%
Stetson University Inc$52,00040%
Forward Paths Foundation Inc$50,00062%
Lovextension Inc$48,50066%
Mount Dora Center for the Arts Inc$25,00032%
Bay Street Players Inc$7,0001n/a
Coronado Community United Methodist Church$6,0001n/a
Sunrisearc Inc$5,00010%
Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Sarah W George Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lake Cares Inc$280,00092%
Hand in Hand Lake County Inc$127,50077%
Trout Lake Nature Center Inc$75,000313%
Stetson University Inc$52,00040%
Forward Paths Foundation Inc$50,00062%
Lovextension Inc$48,50066%
Mount Dora Center for the Arts Inc$25,00032%
Bay Street Players Inc$7,0001n/a
Coronado Community United Methodist Church$6,0001n/a
Sunrisearc Inc$5,00010%
Lake Eustis Museum of Art Inc$1,80013%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($166k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sarah W George Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLake Cares Inc: $280,000 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetHand in Hand Lake County Inc: $127,500 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetTrout Lake Nature Center Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetStetson University Inc: $52,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetForward Paths Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetLovextension Inc: $48,500 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetMount Dora Center for the Arts Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetSunrisearc Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLake Eustis Museum of Art Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 2.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Charles B & Mary M McLin FoundationFL15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charles B & Mary M McLin Foundation · W T Bland Jr Charitable Tua · United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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Find your warmest path to Sarah W George Charitable Trust 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.

About Sarah W George Charitable Trust

How much does Sarah W George Charitable Trust give?
Sarah W George Charitable Trust reported 5 grants totaling $125,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Sarah W George Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (33%), Human Services (30%), Education (12%).
Who are Sarah W George Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lake Cares Inc ($280k), Hand in Hand Lake County Inc ($128k), Trout Lake Nature Center Inc ($75k).
Does Sarah W George Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sarah W George Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sarah W George Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charles B & Mary M McLin Foundation, W T Bland Jr Charitable Tua, United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties Inc.
Where is Sarah W George Charitable Trust based?
Sarah W George Charitable Trust is based in FL.

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 21 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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