· Private foundation
The Saake Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ridgeview Hope Church | $30,000 |
| Intervarsity Christian Fellowship | $10,000 |
| Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley | $9,685 |
| Coaches Wives Ministry Global Inc | $1,200 |
| Georgia Gwinette College Foundation | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against -44% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- RHRIDGEVIEW HOPE CHURCH4× · 2021–2024 · $135k
- CFCORNERSTONE FELLOWSHIP4× · 2017–2020 · $75k
- MCMOUNTAINSIDE COMMUNITY CHURCH2× · 2022–2023 · $29k
Funded once
- BCBRAZOS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -98%
- HCHOPE CHURCH - PARADISEone grant, 2018 · $10k
- OSOPERATION SUPPLY DROP INCone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -95%
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.
To equip the global Church for discipleship, service, and impactful collaboration with the goal of fulfilling the Great Commission of Jesus Christ.
Sending disciples to glorify god
The College's mission is to train Christian leaders to reach a multiethnic world for Christ.
Kingdom Sports trains coaches and athletes to compete biblically.
Travel worldwide spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ through the platform of sports
Train and educate the whole people of god for the fullfillment of the great commission through excellent and affordable distance education. stimulate the growth of spiritual stem cells that become the mature disciples and bible-centered…
Global missionary support
God's bible school and college seeks to glorify god and to serve his church by providing higher education centered in holy scripture and shaped by wesleyan conviction, thus preparing faithful servants to proclaim jesus christ and spread…
501 c 3
The mission of Dominion Christian Schools is to glorify God as we prepare students in mind, body, and spirit to meet life's challenges with a Christ-centered Biblical worldview.
Faith's purpose is to mentor students for spirit-filled leadership in ministry, in light of the great commission. while academics are important, the classrooms are not the only learning place. through a combination of formal instruction,…
3:23 Ministries, Inc. exists to provide and promote discipleship to children, youth and adults primarily through competitive youth sports venues. Coaches and teams share a common vision to invest relationally, spiritually, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coaches Wives Ministry Global Inc and the most unlike its peers is Operation Supply Drop Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 18 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 BRAZOS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SUPPLY DROP INC ↗
- Who funds COACHES WIVES MINISTRY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA GWINNETT COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds MEETING GOD IN BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds THE WATCHMAN FOUNDATION ↗
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Saake Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.