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The Anita and Julian Saul Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Anita and Julian Saul Foundation Inc

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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
66
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$470k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.5MPhilanthropy$391kReligion$256kRecreation & Sports$240kArts & Culture$201kHealth$150kScience & Tech$137kEnvironment$81kOther$0
02FY2024 · 66 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k47 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $203k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $302k
  • $250k+1 grant · $470k
$1,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$8.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA$470,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$140,000
GEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC FUND$100,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON$61,500
VANDERBILT HILLEL$30,000
ALEX'S LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION$26,000
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$16,200
THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION$15,000
DALTON 1ST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$12,000
MIZPAH CONGREGATION$11,608
CONGREGATION OHABAI SHOLOM$11,050
TENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION$11,000
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATION$10,000
FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND$10,000
SCARLETT MARKHAM TIDWELL FUND$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WONDERS & WORRIES: $200 → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%LOAVES AND FISHES: $500 → 10%JACKSON HOLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $1k → 5%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $500 → 13%FRIENDSHIP HOUSE: $500 → 13%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

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MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
WY
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 80 repeat orgs$469k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

80 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
99

Total granted

$2.6M
$296k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+21%

Still filing today

46%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $173k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • Vanderbilt University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $653k · revenue +74%
  • GP
    GIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +135%
  • TM
    THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $81k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • CC
    Community Center for the Artsgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $105k · revenue +171%
  • DF
    DALTON FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • JH
    JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUSTgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +86%
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.

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Johnston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

Johnston health foundation seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people in our communities by supporting the patients, programs, and services of unc health johnston. the foundation seeks to be a philanthropic leader and…

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2
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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3
Jewelers of America Inc

Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.

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4
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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5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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9
Shands Jacksonville Healthcare Inc

As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…

Health
10
Usga Foundation

The foundation is dedicated to fulfilling the usga's mission to champion and advance the game of golf, everywhere it is played. its purpose is soley charitable, scientific, and educational within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the…

Recreation & Sports
11
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
12
Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Whitfield Healthcare Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Polly Boyd Scholarship Fund. 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

81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 81 of the 196 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/81
Grantees still filing
58/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $485,100 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMACOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON: $224,450 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSONGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $132,200 · OtherGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYALEXANDER-THARPE FUND: $105,600 · OtherALEXANDER-THARPE FUNDGEORGIA TECH ATHLETIC FUND: $100,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HL: $95,625 · OtherTHE UNIVERSIY OF ALABAMA: $65,900 · OtherDALTON 1ST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $65,410 · Other+143 more: $646,998 · Other+143 moreVanderbilt University: $653,000 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityGIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $85,000 · EducationGIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INCTHE MCCALLIE SCHOOL: $81,000 · EducationTHE MCCALLIE SCHOOL+7 more: $22,950 · EducationCommunity Center for the Arts: $105,000 · Arts & CultureTENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION: $13,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $8,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $14,500 · Arts & CultureJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $40,000 · PhilanthropyHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $28,500 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $20,000 · PhilanthropyGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $19,966 · Philanthropy+2 more: $1,300 · PhilanthropyTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $32,000 · EnvironmentJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST: $25,000 · EnvironmentYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $13,200 · Environment+1 more: $1,100 · EnvironmentRonald McDonald House Global: $10,000 · HealthSt John's Health Foundation: $5,200 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $2,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,370 · Health+8 more: $2,250 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $10,000 · InternationalJunior Achievement of Georgia: $2,000 · International
Other$1,921,283Education$841,950Arts & Culture$140,500Philanthropy$109,766Environment$71,300Health$20,820International$12,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVanderbilt University: $653,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Center for the Arts: $105,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetGIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $85,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MCCALLIE SCHOOL: $81,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $28,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $19,966 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHARDING ACADEMY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $13,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENTRY SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt Student Communications Inc: $9,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH HOPES INC: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLLY BOYD SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $5,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetSt John's Health Foundation: $5,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGIA STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION: $5,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHunter Museum of American Art: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCreative Discovery Museum: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of Georgia: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON HOLE FOOD & WINE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDALTON DANCE COMPANY THE DALTON ARTS COMPANY: $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Junior Golf Association Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,370 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWHITFIELD-MURRAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,350 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUPITER ISLAND GARDEN CLUBINC: $1,100 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLOXAHATCHEE RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Golf Club of Tennessee Scholarship Fund: $1,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds Community Center for the Arts ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC ↗
  • Who funds ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HARDING ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
  • Who funds TENNESSEE GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ENTRY SERVICES 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.

Helen and Harry Saul …The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…Kenneth E Boring Char…The Anna Sue and Bob …Chattanooga Christian…Community Foundation …Mohawk Carpet Foundat…The Community Foundat…The Bessemer Giving F…White Family Foundati…Hamico Inc
Helen and Harry Saul FoundationTN28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Helen and Harry Saul Foundation · The Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Kenneth E Boring Charitable Foundation Inc · The Anna Sue and Bob Shaw Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Mohawk Carpet Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · White Family Foundation Inc · Hamico Inc

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 The Anita and Julian Saul Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Anita and Julian Saul Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Loxahatchee River Historical Society Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Anita and Julian Saul Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 196 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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