Delaware · 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.
- $95k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations The Murray and Randy Sawyer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% 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 | 6 | $95k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $72k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $46k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $45k | 53% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $31k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $32k | 80% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $19k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $15k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpha Sigma Foundation | $75,000 | 3 | 48% |
| First State Squash Inc | $45,500 | 7 | 5% |
| Tower Hill School Association | $27,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The 1103 Market Street Foundation | $26,750 | 9 | 6% |
| Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy | $17,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Chi Psi Educational Trust Inc | $11,100 | 2 | 0% |
| Food Bank of Delaware Inc | $9,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Action Fund Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Delaware College Scholars Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Sunday Breakfast Mission | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($118k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Murray and Randy Sawyer Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: 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
How this is measured
Compare The Murray and Randy Sawyer Foundation with peer funders
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About The Murray and Randy Sawyer Foundation
- How much does The Murray and Randy Sawyer Foundation give?
- The Murray and Randy Sawyer Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $95,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Murray and Randy Sawyer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (55%), Health (14%), Recreation & Sports (13%).
- Who are The Murray and Randy Sawyer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Alpha Sigma Foundation ($75k), First State Squash Inc ($46k), Tower Hill School Association ($27k).
- Does The Murray and Randy Sawyer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Murray and Randy Sawyer Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Murray and Randy Sawyer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Delaware Community Foundation Inc, Ellice & Rosa McDonald Foundation, United Way of Delaware.
- Where is The Murray and Randy Sawyer Foundation based?
- The Murray and Randy Sawyer Foundation is based in DE.
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