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Sawyer Foundation Charitable Tr
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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $62k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+2 grants · $573k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOPE COLLEGE | $300,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $272,650 |
| DISCIPLE SUPPORT MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| OPERATION RESOLUTE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,667 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| POETICE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| HARVEST AVIATION | $4,903 |
| WATER BY WOMEN | $3,500 |
| RIPPLAFFECT | $3,250 |
| THE BUCKET MINISTRY | $2,195 |
| WE SEE JESUS MINISTRIES | $1,800 |
| WAVES FOR WATER | $1,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,300 |
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 (FY21–24, $316k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Sawyer Foundation Charitable Tr’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 18 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k 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
- HCHOPE COLLEGE3× · 2022–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +7%
- DSDISCIPLE SUPPORT MINISTRIES INC3× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +23%
- MUMAN UP AND GO2× · 2021–2023 · $210k · revenue +576%
Funded once
- HUHOPE UNIVERSITY GLOBAL HEALTH PROGRAMone grant, 2021 · $500k
- MUMESSIAH UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +8%
- GCGIVE CLEAN WATER INCone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -68% · 35% of their budget
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.
The Filter Project is a parachurch ministry whose mission is to pour Gods love into under-resourced communities through the gift of safe, filtered, drinking water in Kenya and plan to serve into additional countries in the future.
Living Water International ("Living Water") exists to demonstrate the love of God by helping communities in 17 developing countries acquire desperately needed clean water and to experience "living water" - the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Our mission is to bring clean drinking water and the gospel of jesus christ to families worldwide in desperate need of both. we carry out this mission through short-term trips in latin america and partnerships with church planters reaching…
Pure water for the world's mission is to improve lives by empowering people with access to life's most basic necessities: safe water and sanitation.
To provide clean drinking water for individuals and families living in poverty around the world with a primary emphasis in africa.
The mission is to share the good news of jesus christ by providing water purification systems in communities throughout the world. the current focus is the central american country of guatemala.
To reveal jesus through building community and providing access to clean water.
Partnering with Indigenous Leaders to Spread the Gospel, Serve Others, and Build Community
Reaching all mankind for Christ.
Fountains of Hope is committed to serving God by providing safe water and community needs in developing countries and in disaster relief areas worldwide.
Water to Thrive transforms lives in rural Africa by working with partners and beneficiaries to bring the blessing of clean, safe water, connecting communities in need with supporters who have the heart and spirit to make a difference
To provide water and sanitation to the people of malawi.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Haiti Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 43 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 HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DISCIPLE SUPPORT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MAN UP AND GO ↗
- Who funds MESSIAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GIVE CLEAN WATER INC ↗
- Who funds ONE ATTA TIME INC ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Mission 823 Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds The Bucket Ministry ↗
- Who funds DISASTER AID USA INC ↗
- Who funds Poetice ↗
- Who funds OPERATION RESOLUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HARVEST AVIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Water By Women ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN INSPIRING HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds WAVES FOR WATER INC ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds MAMA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ANCORA MINISTRIES INC ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Sawyer Foundation Charitable Tr 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.
- Hope for Haiti 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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