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Sasco Foundation Xxxxx0008

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7.1M
Granted FY2020
4
Grants FY2020
4
States reached
$2.4M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

67% of Sasco Foundation Xxxxx0008’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Maine Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

34
’18
38
’19
0
’20

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

01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2020.

Philanthropy$4.9MEnvironment$86kEducation$77kArts & Culture$64kInternational$44kHealth$41kScience & Tech$9kEmployment$7kOther$0
02FY2020 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+3 grants · $7.1M
$2,322,835
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,422,835
Individual grant recipient$2,322,835
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$2,322,835
WARE SHOALS SCHOOL DISTRICT$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
VT
MT
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
SC
DC
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

9%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$243k · 39 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2020, 39 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
17

Total granted

$243k
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+38%

Still filing today

69%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
EnvironmentArts & CultureHealthInternationalEducationEmploymentOther

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

  • NH
    NEW HAVEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $30k · revenue +27%
  • ST
    SAVE THE SOUND
    2× · 2018–2019 · $17k · revenue +29%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $14k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +37%
  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +139%
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +18%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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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2
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
3
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
4
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
7
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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8
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
9
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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10
Health and Environmental Sciences Institute

The health and environmental sciences institute (hesi) is a nonprofit institution whose mission is to engage scientists from academia, government, industry, nonprofit, and other research institutions to identify and resolve global health…

Science & Tech
11
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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12
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Philanthropic Trust and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…Youth Ice Hockey ProgramsYouth Sports Booster Organi…Volunteer Fire DepartmentsGovernment Accountability R…Hospice Care ServicesUnited Way FederationsFood Pantries & AssistanceCommunity Health CentersIndependent K-8 SchoolsCancer Support OrganizationsChristian Missionary Organi…Pregnancy Support ServicesClassical Music EnsemblesLand Conservation Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 52 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%44%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%46%20–35yr13%51%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/45
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,520

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.

04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
34/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Maine Community Foundation Inc — $2,622,835 · PhilanthropyMaine Community Foundation IncNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $2,322,835 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST+1 more — $2,200 · PhilanthropyIndividual grant recipient — $2,322,835 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+30 more — $133,300 · Other+30 moreNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc — $20,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE SOUND — $17,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE SHEFFIELD LAND TRUST INC — $7,500 · EnvironmentLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC — $3,500 · Environment+4 more — $6,750 · EnvironmentNEW HAVEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureMAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureKNEISEL HALL — $7,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $4,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $12,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $10,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc — $10,000 · InternationalCENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE — $2,000 · InternationalPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $14,000 · HealthRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC — $10,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $5,000 · HealthYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL — $2,000 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthPER SCHOLAS INC — $7,000 · EmploymentLIFT INC — $5,000 · Employment
Philanthropy$4,947,870Other$2,456,135Environment$84,750Arts & Culture$61,000International$34,000Health$32,000Employment$12,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc — $2,622,835 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $2,322,835 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HAVEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE SOUND — $17,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHEFFIELD LAND TRUST INC — $7,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetKNEISEL HALL — $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $2,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC — $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOOTE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENINSULA AMBULANCE CORPS — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIFE AND LIGHT FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHAW INSTITUTE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUCY'S HEARTH — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLUE HILL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL NORTHERN LIGHT BLUE HILL HOSPITAL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS HOUSE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE GARDEN CENTER INC DBA BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Becton Family Foundat…Newalliance Foundatio…The Community Foundat…Citizens Charitable F…Louis & Dora T Mohill…The Martin FoundationAldo Dedominicis Foun…Roslyn Milstein Meyer…The Susan Pechter Cha…Prior Family Foundati…Eder Family Foundatio…The Clements Family C…
Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter TrusteeFL17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee · Newalliance Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Louis & Dora T Mohill Foundation Inc · The Martin Foundation · Aldo Dedominicis Foundation Inc · Roslyn Milstein Meyer and Jerome Meyer Foundation R&J Meyer Trustees · The Susan Pechter Charitable Foundation · Prior Family Foundation · Eder Family Foundation Inc · The Clements Family Charitable Trust

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 Sasco Foundation Xxxxx0008 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Columbus House Inc — 100% of income from government
  • United Way of Greater New Haven Inc — 42% of income from government
  • Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
  • New Haven Symphony Orchestra Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
  • Berkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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