Kentucky · Nonprofit
SARABANDE BOOKS INC
SARABANDE BOOKS INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $453,967 to it, the largest being SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($232,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
SARABANDE BOOKS INC's revenue fell 47% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Norton Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- Council of Literary Magazines and Pressesportfolio match
- National Book Foundation Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $7k → $4k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of SARABANDE BOOKS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
SARABANDE BOOKS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
72% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SARABANDE BOOKS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 51% · 2019 90% · 2020 100% · 2021 94% · 2023 70% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
40% of SARABANDE BOOKS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
59% of SARABANDE BOOKS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $186k that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from funders outside Kentucky, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $268k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Norton Foundation Incshared funderslocalKY · backs 49 organizations that share your funders · funds 56 organizations near you
- Council of Literary Magazines and Pressesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Book Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hawthornden Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Academy of American Poets Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Just Buffalo Literary Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Witter Bynner Foundation For Poetry Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tamaasusportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gheens Foundation Incshared funderslocalKY · backs 153 organizations that share your funders · funds 234 organizations near you
- Brown-Forman Foundationshared funderslocalKY · backs 61 organizations that share your funders · funds 70 organizations near you
- The Poss Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clara Elizabeth Jackson Carter Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding SARABANDE BOOKS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $270k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$270k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SARABANDE BOOKS INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SARABANDE BOOKS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SARABANDE BOOKS INC?
- SARABANDE BOOKS INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $453,967 to it, the largest being SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($232,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SARABANDE BOOKS INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $453,967 in grants to SARABANDE BOOKS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SARABANDE BOOKS INC?
- SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $232,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SARABANDE BOOKS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 11funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing