How much does The Sayers Foundation Inc give?

The Sayers Foundation Inc reported 30 grants totaling $519,559 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 45 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Sayers Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (32%), Philanthropy (29%), Education (21%).

Who are The Sayers Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Gateway to Hope ($545k), Variety the Childrens Charity of St Louis ($270k), Maren Fund Inc ($130k).

Does The Sayers Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Sayers 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 Sayers Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, St Louis Community Foundation, Moneta Group Charitable Foundation.

Where is The Sayers Foundation Inc based?

The Sayers Foundation Inc is based in MO.

The Sayers Foundation Inc

The Sayers Foundation Inc at a glance

· 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.

$520k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$150k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.2MPhilanthropy$1.1MEducation$785kCommunity Improvement$100kPublic Safety & Disaster$95kPublic Benefit$90kInternational$77kHuman Services$70kOther$0

02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k13 grants · $65k
$10k–50k15 grants · $225k
$50k–250k2 grants · $230k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND	$149,559
GATEWAY TO HOPE	$80,000
VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY	$35,000
EDUCATIONAL FREEDOM INSTITUTE	$25,000
GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION	$25,000
MAREN FUND	$25,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL	$15,000
ED CHOICE	$10,000
EXCELINED	$10,000
TODAY TOMORROW EDUCATIONAL FNDTN	$10,000
COLLEGE BOUND	$10,000
CLUB FOR GROWTH FOUNDATION	$10,000
FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER	$10,000
ALZHEIMERS RELATED DISORDERS INC	$10,000
UNITED WAY GREATER ST LOUIS	$10,000

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 (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 its grants land in higher-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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 24% of The Sayers Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Sayers Foundation Inclessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.7M · 57 repeat orgs$261k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.7M

$221k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%

+83%

Still filing today

81%

62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyPublic BenefitInternationalOther

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

GT
GATEWAY TO HOPE
8× · 2017–2024 · $545k · revenue +274%
VT
VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS
8× · 2017–2024 · $270k · revenue +8%
MF
MAREN FUND INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $130k · revenue +124%

Funded once

SL
ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $150k
II
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUISgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +139%
LS
LARCHE ST LOUISgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +355%

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.

United States Naval Institute

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.

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Furman University

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.

Education

Augustana College

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…

Education

The George Washington University

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…

Education

Foreign Policy Research Institute

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…

International

University Family Physicians Inc

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…

—

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

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…

Social Science

Lehigh University

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…

Education

Manhattanville University

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

Education

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

International Life Sciences Institute

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…

Science & Tech

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.

05the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 75 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)

58/59

Grantees still filing

43/59

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$964,708Other$1,137,000Health$735,000Education$529,500Human Services$250,000Youth Development$100,000Public Benefit$90,000

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.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO33.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

13report 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

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