· Private foundation
The Murray and Randy Sawyer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALPHA SIGMA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNC CHAPEL HILL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY | $20,000 |
| FIRST STATE SQUASH | $10,000 |
| TOWER HILL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE 1103 MARKET STREET FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| RCW SERVICES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of your 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.
18 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- FSFirst State Squash Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +126%
- THTOWER HILL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION6× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +30%
- FBFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC3× · 2020–2022 · $10k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +16%
- TSTHE SAWYER FAMILY LIBRARY ENDOWMENTone grant, 2017 · $5k
- UCUNC CHAPEL HILL LIBRARIESone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Delaware state university is a public, comprehensive, 1890 land-grant institution that offers access and opportunity to diverse populations from delaware, the nation, and the world. (continued on schedule o.)building on its heritage as a…
The university of delaware is a major research university dedicated to cultivating learning, advancing knowledge, and fostering the exchange of ideas through teaching, research and public service.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Dfsme's mission is to strengthen science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education to prepare all delaware students to be informed citizens and competitive in the global workforce.
Wilmington university is committed to excellence in teaching, relevancy of the curriculum, and individual attention to students. as an institution with admissions policies that provide access for all, it offers opportunity for higher…
The foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for parkinson's disease through an aggressively funded research agenda and ensuring the development of improved therapies for those living with parkinson's today.
Our mission is to strengthen delaware by maximizing community-based philanthropy.
To provide highly motivated students with a curriculum that is integrated with the relevant curriculum at delaware state university such that all students graduate with one to two years of college credits, preparing them for completion of…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
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.
To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Epilepsy Foundation of Delaware and the most unlike its peers is Motorcycle Santa. 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 43 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 33% 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 11% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 49 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 ALPHA SIGMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds First State Squash Inc ↗
- Who funds TOWER HILL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE 1103 MARKET STREET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CHI PSI EDUCATIONAL TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE COLLEGE SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds Sunday Breakfast Mission ↗
- Who funds Motorcycle Santa ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS DELAWARE & MARYLAND'S EASTERN SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MINISTRY OF CARING INC ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT ROWING CLUB ↗
- Who funds FAITHFUL FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds LIMEN HOUSE 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: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundation · United Way of Delaware · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Longwood Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Nor' Easter Foundation Inc · Marmot Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation
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 The Murray and Randy Sawyer Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Limen House Inc — 38% of income from government
- The Ministry of Caring Inc — 30% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Delaware College Scholars Inc — 18% of income from government
- Faithful Friends Inc — 15% of income from government
- First State Squash Inc — 7% of income from government
- Delaware Botanic Gardens Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Pilot School Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Tower Hill School Association — 0% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation of Delaware — 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.
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