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Sauer Lewis Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $79k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLAGLER COLLEGE | $175,000 |
| JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| FLAGLER HOME | $50,000 |
| GRACE & HOLY TRINITY CHURCH | $25,000 |
| CARITAS | $20,000 |
| FOODBANK | $13,605 |
| MCSHIN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ANNA JULIA COOPER EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BOAZ & RUTH INC | $5,000 |
| THE FAISON CENTER | $5,000 |
| LIBERATION VERERANS SERVICES | $5,000 |
| CIRCLES RVA | $5,000 |
| REWORK RICHMOND | $5,000 |
| WORLD PEDIATRIC PROJECT | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 73% of your 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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- FCFLAGLER COLLEGE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $625k · revenue +20%
- MGMISSION GAIT5× · 2019–2023 · $285k · revenue +81%
- WPWORLD PEDIATRICS8× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- PTPGA TOUR CHARITYone grant, 2019 · $25k
- JHJACKSON-FIELD HOMESone grant, 2021 · $24k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $20k
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.
To provide hope and healing to veterans in their struggles against addiction and homelessness.
The Virginia Home provides compassionate and professional residential care to adult Virginians with irreversible physical disabilities, ensuring that their lifelong comfort and security will never be compromised, regardless of the ability…
Faith recovery is a dbhds licensed clinical christian addiction treatment program serving men ages 18 and up. our campus located in beautiful williamsburg, va has two dbhds accredited recovery residences where residents find hope and…
To assist individuals with obstacles to employment achieve their highest degree of economic and personal independence. we achieve our mission through providing resources and other assistance which enables our customers to find work and…
Provides seminary, under-graduate, graduate, doctoral, and other continuing education programs
To provide guidance and rehabilitation in a christ centered residential setting for persons with addiction
Goodwill of central and coastal virginia's mission is to change lives...helping people help themselves through the power of work. (see schedule o for continuation)...
We are bikers and motorcycle enthusiasts who have found hope & healing in jesus christ through the process of christ centered recovery, helping others to realize that change is possible.
Restore addiction recovery offers a long-term addiction recovery program that is christ centered, biblically based and clinically supported to transform the lives of those struggling with drug and alcohol addiction. our goal is to restore…
St john's home for children is a leader in delivering innovative and therapeutic services, in collaboration with our community partners and resources, to promote healing and growth for our children and family prosperity and resilience.
Job placement and aftercare services to poor and homeless individuals.
Service agency providing comprehensive social services and community outreach programs for the entire family. st. vincent's house serves the disadvantaged, underserved and working poor population of the greater galveston community with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Christopher's School Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Circles Rva Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 33 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 FLAGLER COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION GAIT ↗
- Who funds CARITAS ↗
- Who funds WORLD PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds PGA TOUR INC ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE FAISON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOAZ AND RUTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE MCSHIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTS WITH HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLES RVA INC ↗
- Who funds SERVANTS IN FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds LIBERATION VETERAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ReWork Richmond Inc ↗
- Who funds SMALL WORLD YOGA INC ↗
- Who funds ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING PLACE ↗
- Who funds Mechanics of Faith ↗
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: The Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation · Pga Tour Charities Inc · Paul H Pusey Foundation · Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Herndon Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Robins Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Carmax Foundation
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 Sauer Lewis 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Pga Tour Inc — 0% 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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