· Private foundation
Steve & Delores Sarovich Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k42 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EVANS SCHOLAR FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ST PETKA SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH | $20,500 |
| KAPPA KAPPA OF SIGMA CHI FOUNDATION | $10,170 |
| ST PAUL ANTIOCHAN ORTHODOX CHURCH | $10,000 |
| HOLY RESSURECTION SERBIAN ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL | $8,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,238 |
| THE MORTON ARBORETUM | $4,001 |
| MEETING OF OUR LORD SERBIAN ORTHODOX MISSION CHURCH | $4,000 |
| ST SAVA SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH | $3,000 |
| SINSINAWA DOMINICANS | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN | $2,000 |
| MERCY TRAIN GLORIA PETRI | $2,000 |
| CAREER & NETWORKING CENTER | $1,100 |
| ST JOHNS NORTHWESTERN MILITARY ACADEMY | $1,030 |
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, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +49% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
52 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 16 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; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PHPROTECTED HARBOR INC5× · 2020–2024 · $11k · revenue +99%
- NBNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC5× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +167%
- SJST JOHN'S NORTHWESTERN ACADEMIES5× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- SFSENECA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k
- OSOSRUI SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2020 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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…
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
How this is measured
44 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. 44 of the 132 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 THE MORTON ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds PROTECTED HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S NORTHWESTERN ACADEMIES ↗
- Who funds A LONG SWIM ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sigma Chi Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE THE GREAT MARTYR SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH ↗
- Who funds CARLIN NALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAREER & NETWORKING CENTER ↗
- Who funds GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds North Central College ↗
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: The Dupage Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Steve & Delores Sarovich Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Steve & Delores Sarovich Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc: 3% of income from government
- Protected Harbor Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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