· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| LIBERATION VERERANS SERVICES | $5,000 |
| WORLD PEDIATRIC PROJECT | $5,000 |
| THE FAISON CENTER | $5,000 |
| CIRCLES RVA | $5,000 |
| REWORK RICHMOND | $5,000 |
| BOAZ & RUTH 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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 33 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 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 HEARTS WITH HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
- 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 THE HEALING PLACE ↗
- Who funds ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mechanics of Faith ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sauer Lewis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sauer Lewis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Pga Tour Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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