· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k39 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEMENT AND KAREN ARRISON FOUNDATIO | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL | $6,000 |
| WISDOM FARM | $5,529 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,800 |
| GREENFIELD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| FLORIDA CANCER SPECIALIST FOUNDATIO | $2,000 |
| SATURN CLUB HISTORIC PRESERVATION F | $1,700 |
| CHABAD LUBAVITCH | $1,500 |
| ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MAPLE STREET SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $670 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $300 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $228 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of those 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
39 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 20 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE3× · 2017–2019 · $18k · revenue +116%
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC3× · 2017–2023 · $11k · revenue +274%
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION3× · 2022–2024 · $780 · revenue +3%
Funded once
- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INCone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +17%
- FOFOUNDATION OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIone grant, 2020 · $5k
- BEBUFFALO & ERIE COUNTY NAVAL PARKone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
The purposes of the laboratory are scientific, medical, charitable, and educational. our mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the biomedical community.
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
As one of the most preeminent and comprehensive blood centers in theworld, nybc operates under a four-part mission. for more information,see sch. o and part iii, 4a-c.
How this is measured
61 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. 61 of the 157 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 AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds GREENFIELD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation Of Greater Buffalo Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA CANCER SPECIALISTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAPLE STREET SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WNY HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds PINES OF SARASOTA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAYCLIFF CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds SKATING ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND & HAND ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Saperston Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Saperston Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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