How much does The Saxe Foundation Inc give?

The Saxe Foundation Inc reported 14 grants totaling $101,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does The Saxe Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (26%), Education (21%), Arts & Culture (19%).

Who are The Saxe Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The New Canaan Library Inc ($25k), The Stamford Hospital ($20k), Canterbury School Inc ($15k).

Does The Saxe Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Saxe Foundation Inc 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 Saxe Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ayco Charitable Foundation, Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation, Hobbs Family Charitable Trust.

Where is The Saxe Foundation Inc based?

The Saxe Foundation Inc is based in CT.

The Saxe Foundation Inc

The Saxe Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Saxe Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$102k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$84kEducation$69kArts & Culture$61kPhilanthropy$36kHealth$29kHuman Services$7kEnvironment$3kRecreation & Sports$2kOther$0

02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k9 grants · $15k
$10k–50k5 grants · $87k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$226k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ST ALOYSIUS	$25,000
NEW CANAAN MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY	$22,500
Individual grant recipient	$17,000
Individual grant recipient	$12,000
NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$10,000
BLOOD CANCER UNITED	$5,000
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE FUND	$3,000
CANTERBURY SCHOOL	$3,000
FRIENDS OF NEW CANAAN HOCKEY	$1,000
NEW CANAAN LAND TRUST	$1,000
AQUINAS HOUSE	$500
TRINITY WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY	$500
CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART	$500
Individual grant recipient	$500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$216k · 24 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against -23% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$216k

$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%

-23%

Still filing today

50%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

TS
The Stamford Hospital
2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +20%
CS
CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +18%
SG
Southeast Georgia Health System Inc
3× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +36%

Funded once

TN
THE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -50%
NC
NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY YMCA
one grant, 2023 · $5k
SW
ST WILLIAM CATHOLIC CHURCH
one 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.

04Its field

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.

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education

President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education

Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc; the most unlike its peers is Craig and Frances Lindner Center of Hope. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 50 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

24/24

Grantees still filing

14/24

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$210,260Education$43,100Philanthropy$34,500Health$28,853Youth Development$1,750Recreation & Sports$1,600Human Services$1,500

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.

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.

The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY19.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation · Hobbs Family Charitable Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Half Moon Foundation · The Morris Family Foundation · The Richard & Barbara Whitcomb Foundatio · National Philanthropic Trust · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The a James Bach and Vona Hopkins Foundation Inc · The Seelert Foundation Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Saxe Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Saxe Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home