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Sawyer Foundation Charitable Tr
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $465k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MESSIAH UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $164,522 |
| DISCIPLE SUPPORT MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| POETICE | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| SAINT JOSEPHS COLLEGE OF MAINE | $12,000 |
| ETHIOPIA ACT | $6,750 |
| THE FILTER PROJECT | $2,000 |
| KINGDOM VENTURES INTERNATIONAL | $1,500 |
| UNTO | $1,105 |
| THE WATERBEARERS | $1,000 |
| THE BUCKET MINISTRY | $750 |
| FOUNDATIONS OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL | $500 |
| HOPE4BURUNDI | $500 |
| ALWAYS MERCY | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Sawyer Foundation Charitable Tr’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HCHOPE COLLEGE3× · 2022–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +7%
- DSDISCIPLE SUPPORT MINISTRIES INC4× · 2022–2025 · $400k · revenue +23%
- MUMESSIAH UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2025 · $400k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- HUHOPE UNIVERSITY GLOBAL HEALTH PROGRAMone grant, 2021 · $500k
- GCGIVE CLEAN WATER INCone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -68% · 35% of their budget
- MCMESSIAH COLLEGE ATHLETIC DEPARTMENTone grant, 2021 · $100k
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.
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.
To provide help & the hope of Jesus Christ to the thirsty of the world
Reaching all mankind for Christ.
Genesis waters exists to provide clean water and the message of jesus christ to areas of the world where neither is available- and where few organizations are willing to go.
Kingdom Investment works among the poor and oppressed to bear witness to the good news of the Kingdom of God that results in holistic transformation through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Drilling for life is a charitable christian ministry established for the purpose of providing clean, potable water to people who lack the basic necessities of life in the regions surrounding east 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.
The Living Water Project is an effort to fund clean and accessible water for people in impoverished areas of the world, thereby also extending to them the love of God.
World Water Project is a team of social entrepreneurs who strive to deliver the world's best home water filter to those in the developing world. It is organized exclusively as a supporting organization for the benefit of, to perform…
Our commitment to providing accessible clean water extends beyond the boundaries of countries, continents, and cultures. We are driven by a shared belief in the power of technology to transform lives, uplift communities, and create a more…
The mission of wordsower africa is to equip and encourage christians in west african countries to bring the gospel to the unreached people groups, to disciple, to become spiritual leaders, and start healthy churches in every village god…
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 65 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 HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DISCIPLE SUPPORT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MESSIAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MAN UP AND GO ↗
- 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 Poetice ↗
- Who funds DISASTER AID USA INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION RESOLUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ETHIOPIA ACT ↗
- Who funds HARVEST AVIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Water By Women ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds The Filter Project ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds Kingdom Ventures International ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN INSPIRING HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds WAVES FOR WATER INC ↗
- Who funds MAMA PROJECT INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sawyer Foundation Charitable Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sawyer Foundation Charitable Tr. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hope for Haiti Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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