· Private foundation
Walter H Sauvain Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT JOHNSTOWN | $5,000 |
| VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY | $3,500 |
| BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY | $3,500 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PA | $2,500 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND | $2,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT JOHNSTOWN | $2,000 |
| OLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| HOUGHTON UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $1,500 |
| VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT JOHNSTOWN2× · 2024–2025 · $10k
- DADAWSON AIKEY CO MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY2× · 2020–2021 · $7k
- KHKAITLYN HAEFNER CO LYCOMING COLLEGE2× · 2020–2021 · $7k
Funded once
- JNJOSHUA NICHOLLS CO BRINGHAM YOUNGone grant, 2020 · $4k
- GHGABRIELLE HERMAN CO PENNSYLVANIA STATEone grant, 2020 · $4k
- LULIBERTY UNIV FBO JONAH CARNEYone grant, 2023 · $4k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 61 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Walter H Sauvain Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Walter H Sauvain Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Loyola University Maryland Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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