New York · Private foundation
The Saperston 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.
- $41k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2024
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 61%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $163k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 61% of the organizations The Saperston Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 38 | $41k | 53% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $27k | 61% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $24k | 69% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $21k | 69% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $22k | 84% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $30k | 68% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $27k | 59% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $27k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Jewish Committee | $17,770 | 3 | 0% |
| Greenfield Education Foundation Inc | $12,000 | 5 | 64% |
| Mote Marine Laboratory Inc | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Roswell Park Alliance Foundation | $6,900 | 4 | 0% |
| Temple Beth Israel of Port Washingt On | $6,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Zoological Society of Buffalo Inc | $6,250 | 1 | 0% |
| Word of Life Church Buffalo | $3,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Florida Cancer Specialists Foundation Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Maple Street School | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wny Heroes Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 69 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 86 recipients with no EIN on record ($132k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Saperston Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 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: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Baird Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · The Western New York Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · Tower Family Fund Inc · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · ELSIE P AND LUCIUS B McCOWAN PRIVATE FOUNDATION · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · McLain Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Saperston Family Foundation
- How much does The Saperston Family Foundation give?
- The Saperston Family Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $41,064 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Saperston Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (22%), Food & Nutrition (21%), Animals (8%).
- Who are The Saperston Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American Jewish Committee ($18k), Greenfield Education Foundation Inc ($12k), Mote Marine Laboratory Inc ($11k).
- Does The Saperston Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Saperston Family 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 Saperston Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The Baird Foundation, Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc.
- Where is The Saperston Family Foundation based?
- The Saperston Family Foundation is based in NY.
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