Arizona · Private foundation
Sherman and Linda Saperstein Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $69k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 33
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $60k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Sherman and Linda Saperstein Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $69k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $39k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $33k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $57k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $32k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $36k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Hyde Square Task Force Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 1% |
| First Place Az | $31,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Beth Israel Congregation | $25,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Arizona Jewish Historical Society | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mama Hills Help | $22,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Arizona Musicfest Inc | $12,200 | 4 | 0% |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | $5,700 | 5 | 0% |
| Sagewood Residents' Foundation | $5,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Honorhealth Foundation | $4,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Rosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc | $2,250 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($57k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sherman and Linda Saperstein Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
Compare Sherman and Linda Saperstein Charitable Trust with peer funders
About Sherman and Linda Saperstein Charitable Trust
- How much does Sherman and Linda Saperstein Charitable Trust give?
- Sherman and Linda Saperstein Charitable Trust reported 27 grants totaling $69,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 33 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Sherman and Linda Saperstein Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (22%), Arts & Culture (19%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Sherman and Linda Saperstein Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Hyde Square Task Force Inc ($60k), First Place Az ($31k), Beth Israel Congregation ($25k).
- Does Sherman and Linda Saperstein Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sherman and Linda Saperstein Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sherman and Linda Saperstein Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix, Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust.
- Where is Sherman and Linda Saperstein Charitable Trust based?
- Sherman and Linda Saperstein Charitable Trust is based in AZ.
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