· Private foundation
Sarah W George Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKE CARE INC | $50,000 |
| LOVEXTENSION INC | $25,000 |
| HAND IN HAND LAKE COUNTY INC | $25,000 |
| STETSON UNVI SPRING HILL COMMUNITY | $20,000 |
| FORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $334k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +130% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LCLake Cares Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $280k · revenue +193%
- HIHand in Hand Lake County Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $128k · revenue +130%
- TLTROUT LAKE NATURE CENTER INC3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +602%
Funded once
- CFCENTRAL FLORIDA YMCAone grant, 2017 · $15k
- AFAUDUBON FLORIDAone grant, 2020 · $10k
- MDMOUNT DORA TRUST FUNDone grant, 2020 · $8k
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.
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.
Promotion of the visual and performing arts in lake wales, florida
To empower people with disabilities to lead self-directed lives as valued members of the community.
Providing operating space to non-profit organizations
To Provide Services, Energy, Assistance, and Meals on Wheels to local Seniors and other low income individuals in need.
The university center of lake county provides facilities and support services for its member colleges and universities in delivering higher education programs to lake county students.
To meet the educational needs of the community by offering a variety of high quality vocational and technical training opportunities for high school and adult students. the college is a post secondary technical college.
The mission of PADS Lake County is to stand as a community based organization that provides trauma-informed support, resources, and shelter to individuals and families experiencing a housing crisis. We envision a community in which…
To provide the highest quality informational, educational, cultural and recreational resources and services to residents of all ages in the lake county public.
To provide art education and exhibit art by local artists for the enrichment and benefit of the public in Flagler and surrounding counties, Florida.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Lake Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds Hand in Hand Lake County Inc ↗
- Who funds TROUT LAKE NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STETSON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds FORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOVEXTENSION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT DORA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BAY STREET PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISEARC INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE EUSTIS MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sarah W George Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sarah W George Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Stetson University Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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