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The Sauer Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$14M
Granted FY2025still arriving
110
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$900k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$16MEducation$14MPhilanthropy$9.3MHealth$6.7MRecreation & Sports$3.0MYouth Development$2.3MCommunity Improvement$2.1MPublic Benefit$2.0MOther$0
02FY2025 · 110 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $748k
  • $50k–250k67 grants · $7.5M
  • $250k+12 grants · $5.6M
$90,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$49M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES$900,000
AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION$774,830
MOBILE HOPE$685,000
BLACK MEN TEACH$530,000
SERVEMINNESOTA$440,000
UNIVERSITY OF MN FOUNDATION$372,732
KEEPING FAMILIES CONNECTED MN$366,500
SCOTT COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES CHILD WELFARE$345,077
WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS$345,000
WEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE$300,000
BELLIS$300,000
WAYSIDE RECOVERY CENTER$258,561
THE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT (AKA CAREPORTAL)$240,000
THE SANNEH FOUNDATION$236,250
WASHBURN CENTER FOR CHILDREN$225,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $10.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WRIGHT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION: $106k → 5%FAMILY SERVICE ROCHESTER: $93k → 9%FOSTERING MEDIA CONNECTIONS: $75k → 14%CONNECT OUR KIDS: $120k → 4%CONNECT OUR KIDS: $75k → 4%BLACK MEN TEACH: $100k → 11%FOSTER ADVOCATES: $100k → 14%BLACK MEN TEACH: $100k → 11%FOSTER ADVOCATES: $75k → 14%FOSTER ADVOCATES: $243k → 14%MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $181k → 14%FOSTER ADVOCATES: $100k → 14%FOSTER ADVOCATES: $75k → 14%WAY TO GROW: $185k → 11%BLACK MEN TEACH: $530k → 14%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $87k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $87k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER: $269k → 11%AVIVO: $110k → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $101k → 11%AMPERSAND FAMILIES: $167k → 14%AMPERSAND FAMILIES: $140k → 14%AMPERSAND FAMILIES: $120k → 14%AMPERSAND FAMILIES: $116k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $900k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $775k → 14%AIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER: $289k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $191k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $173k → 14%AIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER: $125k → 14%ALIA: $100k → 14%AIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER: $95k → 14%AIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER: $93k → 14%PROOF ALLIANCE: $76k → 14%ALIA: $75k → 14%YWCA MINNEAPOLIS: $135k → 11%DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $100k → 11%YWCA MINNEAPOLIS: $76k → 11%MINNESOTA SOCIAL SERVICE ASSOCATION: $103k → 14%MINNESOTA SOCIAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION: $84k → 14%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $139k → 11%URBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES: $175k → 11%FAMILY REFUGE VILLAGE: $128k → 11%PHYLLIS WHEATLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $125k → 11%PHYLLIS WHEATLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $125k → 11%URBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES: $93k → 11%URBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES: $83k → 11%URBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES: $83k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$44M · 162 repeat orgs$19M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

162 repeat relationships — 80 still active in FY2025, 82 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

162
114

Total granted

$44M
$17M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+11%

Still filing today

63%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +105%
  • AH
    AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +70%
  • LS
    LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA
    3× · 2021–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • FC
    FIDELITY CHARITABLE TRUST
    one grant, 2024 · $9.0M
  • VS
    V3 SPORTS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $3.0M · revenue -88%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $272k

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
Touchstone Mental Health

Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…

Human Services
2
Central Minnesota Jobs and Training Services Inc

Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.

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3
Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota

Mentoring partnership of minnesota (mpm) builds and elevates the capacity of programs, systems and policies to strengthen youth mentoring relationships. strategic priorities include: 1. support a statewide mentoring partner network2.…

Employment
4
Minnesota Institute for Talented Youth

Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.

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5
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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6
Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Network

Child care aware of minnesota was incorporated in 1992 to provide technical assistance, training and coordination for the child care resource and referral programs throughout minnesota, to collect data regarding the supply of and demand…

Human Services
7
Parents in Community Action Inc

Pica provides comprehensive early childhood and family development services that empower children and families to reach their full potential.(expanded mission on schedule o)pica supports parents and their communities in defining their…

Human Services
8
Nexus-Path Family Healing

Strengthening lives, families, and communities through our cornerstone values.

Human Services
9
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment
10
Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…

Philanthropy
11
Men As Peacemakers

Map is a local, statewide, and national resource for communities looking to develop and implement proven, innovative, community-centered strategies that address gender-based violence. using map's "we are all connected" (waac) prevention…

Civil Rights
12
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home Society of Minnesota and the most unlike its peers is Cornerstone. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyVeterans Service Organizati…Immigrant and Ethnic Commun…Senior Housing & Care Servi…Food Assistance ProgramsFamily Philanthropic Founda…Professional Trade Associat…Affordable Housing Developm…Christian Discipleship Mini…Youth Support & DevelopmentEarly Childhood Education C…Public Charter SchoolsDisability Services & Emplo…Community Arts Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 29 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%14%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr13%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%10%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr19%14%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr13%28%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%3/193
the rest of the field
14%
2,290/16,625

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.

04the grantee network

174 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. 174 of the 306 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
168/174
Grantees still filing
113/174
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE TRUST — $9,000,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE TRUSTSCOTT COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES CHILD WELFARE — $1,758,254 · OtherWAYSIDE HOUSE INC — $1,349,244 · Other+116 more — $21,469,815 · Other+116 moreAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $1,174,980 · Human ServicesAMHERST H WILDER FO…LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA — $1,050,986 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SER…Black Men Teach — $830,000 · Human ServicesBlack Men TeachAMPERSAND FAMILIES — $639,250 · Human ServicesAMPERSAND FAMILIESFoster Advocates — $622,560 · Human ServicesFoster AdvocatesAIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER — $601,625 · Human ServicesAIN DAH YUNG (OUR H…FOSTERING MEDIA CONNECTIONS — $585,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERING MEDIA CON…URBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES — $433,415 · Human ServicesYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS — $360,000 · Human Services+31 more — $4,211,048 · Human Services+31 moreUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $1,943,491 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MI…WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS — $1,293,000 · EducationWALLIN EDUCATION…University of St Thomas — $762,500 · EducationUniversity of St…AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY — $645,537 · EducationAUGSBURG UNIVERS…MONTESSORI TRAINING CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC — $570,000 · EducationMONTESSORI TRAIN…GREAT MN SCHOOLS — $566,625 · EducationGREAT MN SCHOOLSREADING PARTNERS — $360,000 · EducationKIPP Minnesota — $347,400 · EducationEd Allies — $340,000 · EducationTNTP INC — $310,000 · Education+12 more — $1,798,115 · Education+12 moreV3 SPORTS INC — $3,000,000 · Recreation & SportsBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES — $637,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION — $494,225 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $340,000 · Youth DevelopmentCORNERSTONE — $244,858 · Youth DevelopmentCONNECTIONS TO INDEPENDENCE — $192,352 · Youth DevelopmentTHE REEL HOPE PROJECT — $95,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentSERVEMINNESOTA — $945,000 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $582,779 · Community ImprovementTRI-VALLEY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC — $272,276 · Community ImprovementASPIREMN — $100,000 · Community ImprovementAMERICAN INDIAN FAMILY CENTER — $80,300 · Community ImprovementWashburn Center for Children — $730,300 · HealthFamilyWise Services — $365,000 · HealthMINNESOTA ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH — $112,320 · HealthAFRICAN AMERICAN CHILD WELLNESS INSTITUTE — $100,000 · HealthTUBMAN — $78,750 · HealthFIRST CALL FOR HELP OF ITASCA COUNTY — $75,000 · Health
Other$33,577,313Human Services$10,508,864Education$8,936,668Recreation & Sports$3,000,000Youth Development$2,053,935Community Improvement$1,980,355Health$1,461,370

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetV3 SPORTS INC — $3,000,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $1,943,491 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWAYSIDE HOUSE INC — $1,349,244 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS — $1,293,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION — $1,174,980 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS AND TRAUMA INC — $1,070,000 over 5y, 37% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA — $1,050,986 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSERVEMINNESOTA — $945,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBlack Men Teach — $830,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas — $762,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWashburn Center for Children — $730,300 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetMobile Hope — $730,000 over 4y, 49% of budgetCANINE INSPIRED CHANGE — $696,481 over 6y, 47% of budgetAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY — $645,537 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBELLIS — $643,000 over 8y, 89% of budgetAMPERSAND FAMILIES — $639,250 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES — $637,500 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetFoster Advocates — $622,560 over 6y, 25% of budgetAIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER — $601,625 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetFOSTERING MEDIA CONNECTIONS — $585,000 over 7y, 7.6% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $582,779 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetMONTESSORI TRAINING CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC — $570,000 over 9y, 5.4% of budgetGREAT MN SCHOOLS — $566,625 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION — $494,225 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES — $433,415 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetFamilyWise Services — $365,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS — $360,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetREADING PARTNERS — $360,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE — $347,918 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetKIPP Minnesota — $347,400 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetEd Allies — $340,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $340,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTNTP INC — $310,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSTAR HOUSE — $302,484 over 3y, 58% of budgetWAY TO GROW — $295,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetMinneapolis American Indian Center — $287,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetPERSPECTIVES INC — $279,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetGROVES ACADEMY — $275,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTRI-VALLEY OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC — $272,276 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $266,280 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetMAIN STREET FAMILY SERVICES — $263,077 over 2y, 18% of budgetRS EDEN — $255,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetENDAZHI-NITAAWIGING CHARTER SCHOOL — $250,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetPhyllis Wheatley Community Center Inc — $249,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetCONNECT OUR KIDS — $245,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetCORNERSTONE — $244,858 over 2y, 26% of budgetBETHANY LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC — $243,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMinnesota Social Service Association — $215,500 over 3y, 8.1% of budget
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 V3 SPORTS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WAYSIDE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS AND TRAUMA INC ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds SERVEMINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds Black Men Teach ↗
  • Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
  • Who funds Washburn Center for Children ↗
  • Who funds Mobile Hope ↗
  • Who funds CANINE INSPIRED CHANGE ↗
  • Who funds AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BELLIS ↗
  • Who funds AMPERSAND FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES ↗
  • Who funds Foster Advocates ↗
  • Who funds AIN DAH YUNG (OUR HOME) CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FOSTERING MEDIA CONNECTIONS ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds MONTESSORI TRAINING CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC ↗
  • Who funds GREAT MN SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds THE SANNEH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds URBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES ↗
  • Who funds FamilyWise Services ↗
  • Who funds YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
  • Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds WEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds KIPP Minnesota ↗
  • Who funds Ed Allies ↗

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.

Otto Bremer TrustSaint Paul & Minnesot…Greater Twin Cities U…Medica FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…Fr Bigelow FoundationThe Richard M Schulze…The Sheltering Arms F…The Walser FoundationPohlad Family Foundat…Mardag FoundationHardenbergh Foundation
Otto Bremer TrustMN121.4× affinity90 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Medica Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Sheltering Arms Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Hardenbergh 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 Sauer 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    78report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Sauer Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Sauer Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 306 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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