· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| RCW SERVICES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE 1103 MARKET STREET FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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
How this is measured
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
- DCDELAWARE COLLEGE SCHOLARS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +87%
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.
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.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 49 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 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 LIMEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TAX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MINISTRY OF CARING 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Murray and Randy Sawyer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Murray and Randy Sawyer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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