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Saslaw Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $2k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Miami | $11,500 |
| Broward Performing Arts Foundation | $10,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters Suncoast | $900 |
| Dolphins Cancer Challenge | $230 |
| Haymakers for Hope | $200 |
| Leikemia Lymphoma Society | $180 |
| Achieve Miami Inc | $180 |
| Breast Cancer Research Foundation | $180 |
| JAFCO | $180 |
| Paw Patrol | $50 |
| Individual grant recipient | $42 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +43%
- CFCAMP FIESTA INC4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +978%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +13%
Funded once
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -1%- AEAlpha Epsilon Phi Foundationone grant, 2022 · $540 · revenue -84%
THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INCone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +23%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Big brothers big sisters association of florida strengthens and expands evidence-based youth mentoring services statewide by providing resources, advocacy, and support to 11 local affiliates.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite and empower the promise of youth. we nurture children, strengthen communities and believe that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life.
Our mission is to create and support mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
The mission of big brothers big sisters is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth, helping them achieve their full potential.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
The mission of big brothers big sisters is to make a positive difference in the lives of children, who are facing emotional, social and academic challenges. through professional-supported relationships with a caring adult, big brothers big…
Big brothers big sisters of berrien & cass mentors children, creates friendships, and inspires change for the future.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. the organization's vision is that all youth achieve their full potential.
To help at risk children achieve full potential through professionally supported one-on-one mentoring relationships with screened and trained adults.
To provide children facing adversity with strong, enduring, professionally supported one on one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.
Our mission is to impact youth by empowering them to discover and achieve their goals through meaningful mentoring. our vision consists of making a positive difference in the lives of our youth.
Big brothers big sisters of miami institute, inc. was organized as a non- profit corporation under the laws of the state of florida, for the purpose of raising funds and administering such funds for the benefit of big brothers big sisters…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Paw Patrol. 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.
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 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
25 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. 25 of the 38 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIESTA INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI NEW DRAMA ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BROWARD INC ↗
- Who funds Alpha Epsilon Phi Foundation ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE BIG BEND INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE SUN COAST INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds DOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds HAYMAKERS FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds THE VICTORY CENTER ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PAW PATROL ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Saslaw Family Foundation 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.
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay Inc — 3% of income from government
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.
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