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THE SAPERSTON FAMILY FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$41k
Granted FY2024
40
Grants
14
Communities
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of THE SAPERSTON FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
deeeducation
2019
fnddeebuffalowny
2020
faiths foodfood bankgregory greatgreat churchride roswell
2021
chartiablebuffaloride roswelljewishchurch
2022
caritableheartmuseumboyswnyroswellhospice
2023
caritablemuseumalzheimer'sairtemple bethwnyroswell
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 40 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k39 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$100
Median grant
14
States reached
$185k
Total assets
Largest grants
- CLEMENT AND KAREN ARRISON FOUNDATIO$10,000
- TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL$6,000
- WISDOM FARM$5,529
- AMERICAN JEWISH COMMUNITY$4,800
- GREENFIELD EDUCATION FOUNDATION$2,500
- FLORIDA CANCER SPECIALIST FOUNDATIO$2,000
- SATURN CLUB HISTORIC PRESERVATION F$1,700
- CHABAD LUBAVITCH$1,500
- TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM$1,000
- MAPLE STREET SCHOOL$1,000
- ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION$1,000
- RIDE FOR ROSWELL$670
- FLYING PIGS SANCTUARY$500
- US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$300
- WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$228
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 12%. 75% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$159k · 42 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
42
99
Total granted
$159k
$47k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+46%
+29%
Still filing today
14%
23%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterAnimalsOther
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
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE3× · 2017–2019 · $18k · revenue +116%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT2× · 2020–2024 · $328 · revenue +46%- CICHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION2× · 2023–2024 · $200 · revenue +83%
Funded once
- BZBUFFALO ZOOone grant, 2019 · $6k
- FOFOUNDATION OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIone grant, 2020 · $5k
- BJBUFFALO JEWISH FEDERATIONone grant, 2021 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
New York Public Radio
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful, see schedule o.
Arts & Culture
2
Hospice & Palliative Care Buffalo Inc
We are western new york's community based healthcare organization dedicated to the care and support of individuals with a serious or end of life illness. we represent a passionate and diverse team of professionals dedicated to the holistic…
Health
3
The New York and Presbyterian Hospital
To be a leader in the provision of world class patient care, teaching, research, and service to local, state, national, and international communities.
Health
4
Hospice Foundation of Central New York
The hospice foundation promotes the values of hospice care. it is dedicated to providing support solely for the programs and operations of the caring coalition of central new york d/b/a hospice of central new york and hospice of the finger…
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5
The Saratoga Hospital
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
Health
6
Niagara University
Niagara university educates its students and enriches their lives though programs in the liberal arts and through career preparation, informed by the catholic and vincentian traditions.
Education
7
Newark-Wayne Community Hospital
To operate an inpatient and outpatient hospital, clinics and treatment centers for the delivery of acute medical, surgical and preventative health care services.
Health
8
Hospice Care Network
Our mission is to enable persons to live with peace and dignity in a caring environment during the final stages of life by offering care and comfort to patients and their families
Human Services
9
The Research Foundation for the State University of New York
Mission of the research foundation for the state university of new york: a. to assist in developing and increasing the facilities of the state university of new york to provide more extensive educational opportunities for and service to…
Education
10
Peace Islands Institute New York
Religion
11
Hospice Care in Westchester and Putnam Inc
Hospice care in westchester and putnam's mission is to provide hospice services by operating a licensed and certified hospice program of palliative and supportive services.
Health
12
New York Academy of Sciences
To advance scientific knowledge and to increase the number of scientifically informed individuals.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Foundation of Wny Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chautauqua Institution. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
8%
10,118/120,722
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.
05the grantee network
33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
23/33
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$186,197Civil Rights$17,770Human Services$7,028Philanthropy$6,605Arts & Culture$2,000Health$1,700Education$1,100
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.
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.
Community Foundation for Greater BuffaloNY21.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co · ELSIE P AND LUCIUS B McCOWAN PRIVATE FOUNDATION · The Western New York Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · Foundation for Jewish · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · Ge Foundation · Network for Good
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 organisation THE SAPERSTON 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- Pines of Sarasota Inc — 18% of income from government
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Animal Rescue Coalition Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GREENFIELD EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 271793475 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on GREENFIELD EDUCATION FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 64% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to The Saperston Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines