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The Sauer 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.

$148k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$2.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
VA
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($33k), not named here.

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About The Sauer Family Foundation

How much does The Sauer Family Foundation give?
The Sauer Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $148,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does The Sauer Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (27%), Animals (24%), Crime & Legal (14%).
Who are The Sauer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2024: The 11th Hour Animal Rescue Inc T/A Eleventh Hour Animal Rescue ($25k), American Heart Association Inc ($20k), Greater Chicago Food Depository ($20k).
Does The Sauer 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.
Where is The Sauer Family Foundation based?
The Sauer Family Foundation is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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