· Private foundation
Sherman and Linda Saperstein Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of Sherman and Linda Saperstein Charitable Trust’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Arizona Jewish Historical Society | $25,000 |
| First Place Phoenix | $10,000 |
| Hyde Square Task Force | $10,000 |
| Mama Hill's Help | $5,000 |
| Arizona Musicfest | $5,000 |
| Sagewood Residents' Foundation | $3,000 |
| Jewish Family Children's Service | $2,500 |
| Friends of AZ PBS | $1,500 |
| Honor Health Foundation | $1,000 |
| Jewish Free Loan | $1,000 |
| CJP of Greater Phoenix | $1,000 |
| NYU Langone Health | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| GBH | $500 |
| Act One | $250 |
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 (FY20–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
THE HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +104%- FPFIRST PLACE AZ6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +77%
- MHMAMA HILLS HELP6× · 2020–2025 · $22k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- BIBETH ISRAEL CONGREGATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k
- TBTemple Beth Israelone grant, 2020 · $5k
- AJAm Jewish Joint Distrib Commone grant, 2022 · $500
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
Council of the americas is a business organization whose members share a common commitment to economic and social development, open markets, the rule of law, and democracy throughout the americas. the council's membership consists of…
Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
To advocate for and act on education improvements that advance the quality of life for all arizonans.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
ATC's mission is to create world-class theatre about what it means to be alive today - inspiring curiosity and creativity, sparking empathy and joy - bringing all Arizonans together.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is Mama Hills Help. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 60 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 THE HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST PLACE AZ ↗
- Who funds Arizona Jewish Historical Society ↗
- Who funds MAMA HILLS HELP ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA MUSICFEST INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAGEWOOD RESIDENTS' FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE ARTS ↗
- Who funds ACT ONE ↗
- Who funds THE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds BALLET ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds YOUNG ARTS ARIZONA LTD ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA FOOD BANK NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds AMERICA-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION 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: Arizona Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Thunderbirds Charities · Margaret T Morris Foundation · The Herberger Foundation · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Scottsdale League for the Arts · Twiford Foundation · Flinn Foundation · William & Ruth Pendleton Memorial Fund US Bank National Association · The Kemper & Ethel Marley Fdn
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 Sherman and Linda Saperstein Charitable Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Hyde Square Task Force Inc — 52% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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.