· Private foundation
The Sallie Mae Fund 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.
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 · $15k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $195k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $784k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND | $1,625,250 |
| DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY | $375,000 |
| HBCU WEEK FOUNDATION INC | $200,000 |
| STONY BROOK FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| POINT FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| YOUR CAUSE LLC FBO THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND | $99,254 |
| DC COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM | $75,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DELAWARE | $60,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR | $50,000 |
| UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE MADITERRANEAN | $50,000 |
| EPSILON ZETA BOULE FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| TECHPOINT FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $256k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of those 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.
15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 9 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $389k 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
- DSDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2024 · $600k · revenue +10%
- HWHBCU WEEK FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $500k · revenue +4%
- PFPOINT FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2024 · $350k · revenue +108%
Funded once
- LHLOUDOUN HUNGER RELIEF INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +40%
- GFGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INCone grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +11%
- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +1%
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Arc of Gloucester. 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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 75 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 Thurgood Marshall College Fund ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HBCU WEEK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds POINT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOUDOUN HUNGER RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds EPSILON ZETA BOULE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Buffalo Bill Memorial Association ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE ↗
- Who funds Summit Land Conservancy ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds LATIN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEMOURS 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: Longwood Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Nor' Easter Foundation Inc · Incyte Charitable Giving Foundation · United Way of Delaware · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · The Struthers Family Foundation · Wakefield Family Fund Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc
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 Sallie Mae Fund Inc 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.
- Christiana Care Health System Inc — 43% of income from government
- Latin American Community Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc — 33% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Delaware State University — 18% of income from government
- Delaware Community Foundation Inc — 13% of income from government
- Hbcu Week Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Regis College — 2% of income from government
- Bentley University — 1% of income from government
- The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 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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