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Sayler-Hawkins Foundation at a glance

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Sayler-Hawkins 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.

$120k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$10k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$203kEducation$166kReligion$135kAnimals$86kFood & Nutrition$66kHuman Services$62kInternational$40kEnvironment$37kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VP COMMUNITY IMPACT FOUNDATION$10,000
MONARCH EFFECT FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$10,000
SHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$8,000
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$8,000
BAJA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$7,000
PRISON FELLOWSHIP$5,000
RED WINDS COUNCILS$5,000
BIRTHRIGHT COUNSELING ST LOUIS$5,000
SECOND CHANCE RANCH$5,000
KENRICK-GLENNON SEMINARY$5,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI$4,000
AGAINST MALARIA FOUNDATION$4,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%RED WINDS COUNCIL: $7k → 8%NO GREATER LOVE: $13k → 10%RED AUTISMO: $15k → 11%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $9k → 11%MONARCH EFFECT FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%MERCY SHIPS OPERATION SMILES: $5k → 12%ACU FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION: $5k → 14%SHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $15k → 13%SALVATION ARMY - MIDLAND DIVISION: $15k → 21%OUR FAMILY FARMS: $26k → 13%UMPQUA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10k → 21%RHODE ISLAND FOOD BANK: $10k → 14%BAJA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE: $10k → 7%AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION: $10k → 9%RED AUTISMO: $15k → 11%SHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $15k → 13%THE SALVATION ARMY: $10k → 21%OUR FAMILY FARMS: $20k → 13%UMPQUA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $8k → 17%BAJA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%RED AUTISMO: $10k → 11%SHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $15k → 13%SALVATION ARMY - MIDLAND DIVISION: $10k → 21%OUR FAMILY FARMS: $10k → 13%BAJA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%SHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $8k → 13%SALVATION ARMY - MIDLAND DIVISION: $10k → 21%BAJA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%SHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $8k → 13%SALVATION ARMY - MIDLAND DIVISION: $10k → 21%BAJA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7k → 10%SHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $8k → 13%UPAVIM FOUNDATION: $20k → 21%SAINT LOUIS BALLET: $10k → 11%STRAY RESCUE ST LOUIS: $20k → 21%STRAY RESCUE ST LOUIS: $15k → 21%VISITATION ACADEMY - ANNECY CAMPAIGN: $20k → 11%STRAY RESCUE ST LOUIS: $10k → 21%VISITATION ACADEMY - ANNECY CAMPAIGN: $20k → 11%VP COMMUNITY IMPACT FOUNDATION: $10k → 21%VISITATION ACADEMY - ANNECY CAMPAIGN: $20k → 11%KENRICK GLENNON SEMINARY: $10k → 11%KENRICK GLENNON SEMINARY: $10k → 11%KENRICK GLENNON SEMINARY: $10k → 11%KENRICK GLENNON SEMINARY: $10k → 11%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

WA
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
RI
CA
MO
VA
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$883k · 36 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against +62% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
10

Total granted

$883k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+62%

Still filing today

56%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEducationHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • BC
    BAJA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $45k · revenue ×18 · 31% of their budget
  • UC
    UMPQUA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2023 · $28k · revenue +141%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $24k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +18%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +83%
  • CH
    COLONIAL HEIGHTS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
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
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
2
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
3
Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc

To guarantee all americans quality places to hunt and fish.

Animals
4
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
5
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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6
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
7
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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9
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
10
Fauna & Flora International Usa Inc

Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.

Philanthropy
11
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
12
Agricultural Research Foundation

Our mission is to encourage facilitate support and engage in scientific investigation and research experimentation and to advance educational and training activities related to agriculture and natural resources throughout the state of…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Our Family Farms. 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

30 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. 30 of the 53 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
21/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $82,500 · OtherST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITALVISITATION ACADEMY - ANNECY CAMPAIGN: $60,000 · OtherVISITATION ACADEMY - ANNECY CAMPAIGNIndividual grant recipient: $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKENRICK GLENNON SEMINARY: $50,000 · OtherKENRICK GLENNON SEMINARYSALVATION ARMY - MIDLAND DIVISION: $45,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY - MIDLAND DIVISIONSTRAY RESCUE ST LOUIS: $45,000 · OtherSTRAY RESCUE ST LOUISUMPQUA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $27,500 · OtherUPAVIM FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Other+31 more: $265,500 · Other+31 moreTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $74,000 · HealthTHE SHRINER…The Against Malaria Foundation: $15,500 · HealthThe Against…PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $5,000 · HealthOUR FAMILY FARMS: $56,000 · Food & NutritionRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Food & NutritionBAJA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $44,500 · InternationalRED WIND COUNCILS INC: $14,000 · InternationalSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $21,000 · EducationAMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · Education+2 more: $2,000 · EducationSOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $16,500 · EnvironmentUNDERSTORY INITIATIVE: $14,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION INC: $24,000 · Public Benefit
Other$660,500Health$94,500Food & Nutrition$66,000International$58,500Education$33,000Environment$30,500Public Benefit$24,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $74,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOUR FAMILY FARMS: $56,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetBAJA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $44,500 over 6y, 31% of budgetUMPQUA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION INC: $24,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT COUNSELING ST LOUIS: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $16,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetThe Against Malaria Foundation: $15,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNRA FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAIR SAINT LOUIS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRED WIND COUNCILS INC: $14,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetUNDERSTORY INITIATIVE: $14,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $10,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVP COMMUNITY IMPACT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNative Fish Society Inc: $6,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetROGUE VALLEY MENTORING: $6,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS: $3,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPPORTUNITIES FOR HOUSING RESOURCES AND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds OUR FAMILY FARMS ↗
  • Who funds BAJA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UMPQUA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT COUNSELING ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN OREGON LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SAINT LOUIS BALLET COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds NRA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FAIR SAINT LOUIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RED WIND COUNCILS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNDERSTORY INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
  • Who funds VP COMMUNITY IMPACT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds Native Fish Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROGUE VALLEY MENTORING ↗

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.

The Oregon Community …The Carpenter Foundat…The Haines Philanthro…John R Woods Foundati…The Thalden FoundationThe Autzen FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…Raymond James Charita…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Renaissance Charitabl…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR17.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Carpenter Foundation · The Haines Philanthropic Foundation · John R Woods Foundation · The Thalden Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Sayler-Hawkins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sayler-Hawkins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • Rogue Valley Mentoring: 42% of income from government
  • Understory Initiative: 36% of income from government
  • Native Fish Society Inc: 27% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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 53 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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