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Saw Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Saw Family Foundation Inc

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.

$16k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$18kArts & Culture$10kHealth$7kSocial Science$7kHousing & Shelter$5kHuman Services$4kPhilanthropy$2kCivil Rights$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$604k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JLAD$1,875
SAMARITANS PURSE$1,719
LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE$1,718
AMERICAN OPINION FOUNDATION$1,718
EDUCATE GIRLS US$1,000
BETTER TOGETHER$1,000
WORLD BEYOND WAR$1,000
WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL$1,000
GRACE CENTER FOUNDATION$1,000
SALEM ORCHESTRA$875
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$750
SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND$750
SUNLIGHT HOME$500
PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER$500
PKD FOUNDATION$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BETTER TOGETHER: $1k → 10%YAMHILL COUNTY GOSPEL RESCUEMISSION: $1k → 11%WILLAMETTE VALLEY HOSPICE INC: $875 → 13%BETTER TOGETHER: $1k → 10%SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $750 → 14%Salem Leadership Foundation: $500 → 14%SUNLIGHT OF COLLIER COUNTY: $250 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
OR
PA
MO
DC
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$63k · 15 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
6

Total granted

$63k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
-6%

Still filing today

80%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureCivil RightsReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AO
    AMERICAN OPINION FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +131%
  • LV
    LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +7%
  • GC
    GRACE CENTER FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +119%

Funded once

  • YC
    YAMHILL COUNTY GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -6%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • WV
    WILLAMETTE VITAL HEALTH
    one grant, 2021 · $875 · revenue -10%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation

Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…

Health
2
Pregnancy Choices of Skagit County

Pregnancy Choices is a Christian ministry caring for those touched by unplanned pregnancy by providing options and resources that promote life.

Health
3
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
4
Allyfe Pregnancy Clinics

Allyfe pregnancy clinic exists to offer truth, hope, and love to every woman and family facing an unexpected pregnancy. founded in 1985, we have built four decades of integrity as a christ-centered center of excellence - providing…

Human Services
5
Global Women

To cultivate global friendships with women for shared learning and sevice while providing an entity through which and by which evangelical women cooperate to bring a better life to all women and their families around the world thru faith…

Religion
6
Women's Refugee Commission Inc

To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…

Human Services
7
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
8
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
9
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International
10
Alternatives Pregnancy Center

It is our mission to provide women with medical care and alternatives to abortion as we proclaim the hope of the Gospel.

—
11
Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
12
Women's Rights Without Frontiers International

Women's rights without frontiers, international ("wrwf- or "the organization") is a nonprofit entity supporting the rights of women and girls, first in china, then in other countries' communities. the organization was founded by regina…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salem Leadership Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Preemptive Love Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
12/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC: $8,637 · OtherLUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONO…SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-USA INC: $6,750 · OtherSOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-USA INCJLAD: $5,125 · OtherJLADPKD Foundation: $3,125 · OtherPKD FoundationSUNLIGHT HOME: $2,750 · OtherSUNLIGHT HOMEUNITED WAY OF THE MID-WILLAMETTE VALLEY: $1,500 · Other+3 more: $2,250 · Other+3 moreAMERICAN OPINION FOUNDATION INC: $10,609 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN OPINION FO…SALEM ORCHESTRA: $2,375 · Arts & CultureSALEM ORCHESTRAGRACE CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · InternationalGRACE CENTER FOUN…WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $3,000 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOMEN I…World Beyond War: $1,000 · InternationalWorld Beyond WarEDUCATE GIRLS: $1,000 · InternationalEDUCATE GIRLSSEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND: $750 · InternationalSEARCH FOR COMMON…SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Human ServicesSALEM LEADER…BETTER TOGETHER: $2,000 · Human ServicesBETTER TOGET…YAMHILL COUNTY GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION: $1,250 · Human ServicesYAMHILL COUN…WILLAMETTE VITAL HEALTH: $875 · Human ServicesWILLAMETTE V…+1 more: $250 · Human ServicesTHE PREEMPTIVE LOVE COALITION: $4,250 · HealthTHE PREEMP…Pregnancy Resource Center INC dba Hope Pregnancy Center: $1,750 · HealthPregnancy …FOR HIM TODAY INC: $1,250 · HealthFOR HIM TO…PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $1,750 · Civil RightsSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,719 · ReligionFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $750 · Youth Development
Other$30,137Arts & Culture$12,984International$11,750Human Services$8,375Health$7,250Civil Rights$1,750Religion$1,719Youth Development$750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN OPINION FOUNDATION INC: $10,609 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC: $8,637 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-USA INC: $6,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PREEMPTIVE LOVE COALITION: $4,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPKD Foundation: $3,125 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSALEM ORCHESTRA: $2,375 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetPregnancy Resource Center INC dba Hope Pregnancy Center: $1,750 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $1,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MID-WILLAMETTE VALLEY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYAMHILL COUNTY GOSPEL RESCUE MISSION: $1,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWorld Beyond War: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATE GIRLS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLAMETTE VITAL HEALTH: $875 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNLIGHT OF COLLIER COUNTY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Maps Community Founda…The Oregon Community …Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Maps Community FoundationOR15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maps Community Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Saw Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Saw Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley: 19% of income from government
  • Salem Leadership Foundation: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home