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Sacred Portion Foundation

Landrum, SC · EIN 41-1825330. Reported 38 grants totalling $437,301 to 22 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,600median grant
$437,301granted, 2021-2024
22recipients, as named on its returns
70%of grantees funded again the next year
$689,347assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Sacred Portion Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $3,600. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,100 and $14,625; the smallest was $300 and the largest $62,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
3 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
18 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
4 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
7 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
5 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Youth With a Mission - MinneapolisRockford, MN$185,600442024
Youth With a Mission - TylerGarden Valley, TX$84,435442024
100 Degree DifferenceRockford, MN$44,500222024
With God's Little OnesSt Louis, MO$19,300112022
Servants for Central AsiaNashville, TN$15,000222022
Servant Group InternationalNashville, TN$14,400222024
Church of the God World MissionsCleveland, TN$13,848442024
Youth With a Mission - ColoradoColorado Springs, CO$12,000112024
Streams of MercyWylie, TX$11,000222024
With Gods Little OnesSt Louis, MO$10,000112024
Project M25Anniston, AL$5,700222024
Youth With a Mission - MontanaLakeside, MT$5,600332024
Mountain Hill Community ChurchLandrum, SC$2,700112023
Tamassee Dar SchoolTamassee, SC$2,500112024
Black Mountain HomeBlack Mountain, NC$2,176112024
St Cecilis Church of England SchoolLondon$2,000112023
Tamasse Dar SchoolTamassee, SC$2,000112022
Friends of the Children of HaitiPeoria, IL$1,292112024
Palmetto Family CouncilColumbia, SC$1,200112024
Biltmore ChurchArden, NC$1,000112024
Samaratan's PurseBoone, NC$750112024
The NavigatorsColorado Springs, CO$300112023

9 of 22 (41%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 70%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 21 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Religion
14 grants
Human Services
4 grants
International Affairs
3 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20214$74,800$15,200
20228$126,895$8,900
202310$130,193$3,596
202416$105,413$2,450

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

53% of its giving went to organizations in Minnesota. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Minnesota
$230K
Texas
$95K
Tennessee
$43K
Missouri
$29K
Colorado
$12K
South Carolina
$8K
Alabama
$6K
Montana
$6K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc9 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund9 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc7 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc6 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program5 shared recipientsServant Foundation5 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,600. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Minnesota.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Sacred Portion Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 43 Eagle Rock Road, Landrum, SC, 29356. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 41-1825330 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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