New York · Private foundation
Saunders 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.
- $6.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2024
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $5,356,057
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 38
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Saunders Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 87% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 29 | $6.8M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $1.4M | 40% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $245k | 48% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $690k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $730k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 38 | $849k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 38 | $834k | 53% |
| FY2017 | 34 | $204k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Rochester | $5,398,486 | 4 | 0% |
| Education Success Network Inc | $300,000 | 6 | 2% |
| The Young Entrepreneurs Academy Inc | $275,000 | 4 | 15% |
| Paul Smiths College | $166,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Veterans Outreach Center Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 2% |
| St John Fisher University | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hope Hall | $110,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Education Success Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Saranac Lake Civic Center Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Green Angels | $50,000 | 5 | n/a |
Show all 57 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Saunders Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · The Florence M Muller Foundation · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Summers Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Saunders Foundation
- How much does Saunders Foundation give?
- Saunders Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $6,751,068 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 38 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Saunders Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (58%), Arts & Culture (18%), Health (6%).
- Who are Saunders Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Rochester ($5.4M), Education Success Network Inc ($300k), The Young Entrepreneurs Academy Inc ($275k).
- Does Saunders Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Saunders Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Saunders Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rochester Area Community Foundation, Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation, Esl Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Saunders Foundation based?
- Saunders Foundation is based in NY.
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