· Private foundation
The Sayers Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $225k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND | $149,559 |
| GATEWAY TO HOPE | $80,000 |
| VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY | $35,000 |
| MAREN FUND | $25,000 |
| GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| EDUCATIONAL FREEDOM INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH APPEAL | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY GREATER ST LOUIS | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER | $10,000 |
| COLLEGE BOUND | $10,000 |
| TODAY TOMORROW EDUCATIONAL FNDTN | $10,000 |
| EXCELINED | $10,000 |
| CLUB FOR GROWTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ED CHOICE | $10,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS RELATED DISORDERS INC | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 24% of The Sayers Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +54% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 3 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- GTGATEWAY TO HOPE8× · 2017–2024 · $545k · revenue +274%
- VTVARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS8× · 2017–2024 · $270k · revenue +8%
- MFMAREN FUND INC7× · 2018–2024 · $130k · revenue +124%
Funded once
- SLST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $150k
- LSLARCHE ST LOUISgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +355%
- IIINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUISgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +139%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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…
Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The American Playwriting Foundation. 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.
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 33 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
59 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. 59 of the 75 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY TO HOPE ↗
- Who funds VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds MAREN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EdChoice Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds 4522 CLUB ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds PROGRESS IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLUB FOR GROWTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL FREEDOM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGH ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIVING WELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds St Louis Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds DUO DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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.
Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Edward Jones Foundation · Centene Foundation · Berges Family Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Pott Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee
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 Sayers Foundation Inc 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.
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.