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Sarracenia Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$154k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$270kRecreation & Sports$215kPhilanthropy$213kEnvironment$130kHealth$94kHuman Services$56kPublic Benefit$50kEducation$34kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $84k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE$50,000
MANNINGS FAMILY CHILDREN'S - WALKERS IMAGINARIUM$10,000
NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM$10,000
PUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF LOUISIANA$5,000
GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION$5,000
GARDEN CONSERVANCY$5,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$5,000
CASHIERS COMMUNITY FUND$5,000
UNITED WAY$5,000
GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA$5,000
OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION$5,000
NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL GEN SOCIETY$5,000
EDEN HOUSE$3,000
NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART$3,000
COMMUNITY SAILING NEW ORLEANS$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%VISION CASHIERS: $13k → 18%VISION CASHIERS: $5k → 18%VISION CASHIERS: $3k → 18%VISION CASHIERS: $3k → 18%VISION CASHIERS: $3k → 18%VISION CASHIERS INC: $3k → 18%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

NY
MA
OH
RI
VA
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
GA
FL
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$933k · 45 repeat orgs$196k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
24

Total granted

$933k
$131k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+39%

Still filing today

78%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TV
    The Village Green of Cashiers Inc
    5× · 2018–2022 · $202k · revenue +75%
  • TN
    THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $78k · revenue +31%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
    6× · 2018–2023 · $60k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • AA
    AMERICAN ANCESTORS ANNUAL FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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.

1
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc

To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.

Arts & Culture
2
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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3
Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
4
Gaston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
5
North Carolina Chamber

The organization is a proactive, nonpartisan business advocacy organization. the organization works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that north carolina is a leading place…

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6
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
7
Louisiana State Bar Association

The mission of the louisiana state bar association is to assist its members in the practice of law, assure access to and aid in the administration of justice, assist the supreme court in the regulation of the practice of law, uphold the…

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8
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
9
National Tropical Botanical Garden

To enrich life by perpetuating tropical plants, ecosystems and cultural heritage through discovery, scientific research, conservation, and education.

Environment
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
Ochsner Health System

We serve, heal, lead, educate and innovate. ochsner will be a global medical and academic leader who will save and change lives. we will shape the future of healthcare through our integrated health system, fueled by the passion and…

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12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc; the most unlike its peers is Southern Highlands Reserve 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

50 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. 50 of the 75 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
41/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CASHIERS COMMUNITY FUND: $40,000 · OtherCASHIERS COMMUNITY FUNDNEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL GEN SOCIETY: $35,000 · OtherNEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL GEN SOCIETYAMERICAN ANCESTORS ANNUAL FUND: $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN ANCESTORS ANNUAL FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH INC: $20,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $20,000 · OtherNEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: $20,000 · OtherHIGHLANDS-CASHIERS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $15,000 · OtherPUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF ICIC A: $23,500 · OtherTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $15,000 · OtherLOW COST ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $24,000 · OtherLOW COST ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTERGLENVILLE-CASHIERS RESCUE SQUAD INC: $15,000 · Other+33 more: $146,500 · Other+33 moreThe Village Green of Cashiers Inc: $202,000 · Recreation & SportsThe Village Green o…COMMUNITY SAILING NEW ORLEANS: $12,000 · Recreation & SportsCOMMUNITY SAILING N…UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA: $60,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF …FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $41,300 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR…THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $38,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GREATER NE…HOGS FOR THE CAUSE INC: $13,500 · PhilanthropyHOGS FOR THE C…+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $77,500 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL W…NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $42,000 · Arts & CultureNEW ORLEANS MU…CASHIERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $18,000 · Arts & CultureCASHIERS HISTO…STRATFORD HALL: $7,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER NEW ORLEANS EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION: $6,900 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $5,250 · Arts & CultureOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentOPEN SPACE I…THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentTHE GARDEN C…THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA: $30,000 · EnvironmentTHE GARDEN C…SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS RESERVE INC: $19,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN HIG…+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentOCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION: $35,000 · HealthLife Challenge of Western North Car: $9,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $6,000 · HealthHighlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc: $6,000 · HealthST THOMAS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $5,000 · HealthBLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS HEALTH PROJECT INC: $3,000 · HealthVISION CASHIERS INC: $28,000 · Human ServicesEDEN CENTERS: $13,000 · Human Services
Other$449,000Recreation & Sports$214,000Philanthropy$157,800Arts & Culture$156,650Environment$130,000Health$64,500Human Services$41,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Village Green of Cashiers Inc: $202,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $77,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $42,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $41,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $38,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVISION CASHIERS INC: $28,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetLOW COST ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $24,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetPUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF ICIC A: $23,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH INC: $20,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetNEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN HIGHLANDS RESERVE INC: $19,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCASHIERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $18,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetGLENVILLE-CASHIERS RESCUE SQUAD INC: $15,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLANDS-CASHIERS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetHOGS FOR THE CAUSE INC: $13,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEDEN CENTERS: $13,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY SAILING NEW ORLEANS: $12,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLife Challenge of Western North Car: $9,500 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetPRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLOUISIANA CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE: $7,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTRATFORD HALL: $7,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER NEW ORLEANS EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION: $6,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBASTION COMMUNITY OF RESILIENCE: $6,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHighlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST THOMAS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS HEALTH PROJECT INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROW DAT YOUTH FARM: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMONUMENTAL TASK COMMITTEE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetThe Bascom Corporation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENERAL SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHATTOOGA CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetElon University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds The Village Green of Cashiers Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ↗
  • Who funds OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
  • Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds VISION CASHIERS INC ↗
  • Who funds LOW COST ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC AFFAIRS RESEARCH COUNCIL OF ICIC A ↗
  • Who funds BUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS RESERVE INC ↗
  • Who funds CASHIERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds GLENVILLE-CASHIERS RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds HOGS FOR THE CAUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds EDEN CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SAILING NEW ORLEANS ↗
  • Who funds Life Challenge of Western North Car ↗
  • Who funds PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOUISIANA CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds STRATFORD HALL ↗
  • Who funds BREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED ↗

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.

The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA28.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · Ella West Freeman Foundation · Brighton Foundation Trust Robert D Markley Trustee · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · Florence Mauboules Charitable Trust · Goldring Family Foundation · Shell USA Company 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 Sarracenia Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sarracenia Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: 21% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Sarracenia Foundation Inc 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 75 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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