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Blue Sands Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Health$6.2MEducation$2.4MHousing & Shelter$230kArts & Culture$83kRecreation & Sports$78kInternational$55kCommunity Improvement$33kFood & Nutrition$19kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $231k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $174k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
$8,751
Median grant
4
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL CHILDRENS CHARITY$1,517,940
ETON COLLEGE$64,713
AIGLON COLLEGE ASSOCIATION$58,907
STARS IN THE DARK BY THE GIVING BACK FUND$50,000
BARNARD COLLEGE - COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$46,061
THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER$42,000
PRIOR'S FIELD SCHOOL$30,920
SWISS SCHOOL OF TOURISM$30,672
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$30,000
FRENSHAM HEIGHTS SCHOOL$26,330
THE UNIVERSITY OF LAW LTD$14,673
SARL CAP IMMO VAR$10,823
Individual grant recipient$9,720
CHURCHER'S COLLEGE JUNIOR SCHOOL$8,751
THE LEE STRASBERG THEATRICAL AND FILM INSTITUTE$8,420
02The need
03

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 US giving44% of grant dollars ($4.2M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 56% that went abroad ($5.4M) is mapped below.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $37k → 8%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $500k → 16%SARL CAP IMMO VAR: $11k → 13%O'AFRICA: $8k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $41k → 16%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%GEORGETOWN - STEERS CENTER FOR GLOBAL REAL ESTATE: $50k → 15%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $125k → 14%HELP FOR UKRAINE (UKRAINE HUMANITARIAN FUND): $10k → 12%MAKE LIFE SKATE LIFE: $19k → 7%THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER: $42k → 10%CODEORG: $10k → 9%RAZI HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%KINGS COLLEGE LONDON (BANK OF NY MELLON): $32k → 9%JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY: $14k → 29%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $34k → 8%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IDEBOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $500k → 16%STARS IN THE DARK BY THE GIVING BACK FUND: $100k → 14%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $25k → 17%GEORGETOWN - STEERS CENTER FOR GLOBAL REAL ESTATE: $50k → 15%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $111k → 14%KINGS COLLEGE LONDON (BANK OF NY MELLON): $18k → 9%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $500k → 16%STARS IN THE DARK BY THE GIVING BACK FUND: $100k → 14%BARNARD COLLEGE - COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $46k → 17%GEORGETOWN - GLOBAL BUSINESS INITIATIVE: $25k → 15%GEORGETOWN - MSB DEAN'S LEADERSHIP FUND: $25k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IDE: $500k → 16%STARS IN THE DARK BY THE GIVING BACK FUND: $50k → 14%GEORGETOWN - MSB DEAN'S LEADERSHIP FUND: $25k → 14%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $500k → 16%TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $17k → 17%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $25k → 16%TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%THE LEE STRASBERG THEATRICAL AND FILM INSTITUTE: $8k → 17%CONFIERS SCHOOL LTD: $12k → 17%PRIOR'S FIELD SCHOOL: $48k → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $30k → 17%PRIOR'S FIELD SCHOOL: $38k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS: $21k → 17%PRIOR'S FIELD SCHOOL: $31k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS: $13k → 17%PRIOR'S FIELD SCHOOL: $19k → 14%REFUGEE INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 14%PRIOR'S FIELD SCHOOL: $9k → 14%MADAME FRANCOISE STOLTZ: $10k → 14%MADAME FRANCOISE STOLTZ: $9k → 14%MADAME FRANCOISE STOLTZ: $9k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MT
IL
NY
MA
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
TN
SC
DC
FL

Beyond the US56% of all-years giving ($5.4M)

9 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$4.4M · 37 grants
Switzerland$905k · 10 grants
France$58k · 15 grants
Italy$18k · 1 grant
Lebanon$11k · 3 grants
Spain$6k · 1 grant
Pakistan$4k · 1 grant
Tunisia$2k · 1 grant
South Africa$1k · 1 grant

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.2M · 30 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
53

Total granted

$7.2M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+8%

Still filing today

17%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther

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

  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2019–2023 · $236k · revenue +35%
  • Trustees of Tufts College
    2× · 2020–2021 · $71k · revenue +39%
  • TA
    TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2023 · $32k · revenue +366%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IDEBOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2018 · $500k
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IDE
    one grant, 2023 · $500k
  • G
    GOSH
    one grant, 2021 · $354k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
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
3
Manhattanville University

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

Education
4
Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford

The principal objects of the University are the advancement of learning by teaching and research, and its dissemination by every means. We work as one Oxford bringing together our staff, students and alumni, our colleges, faculties,…

5
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
6
World Learning Inc

Creating a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world through education, development, and exchange since 1932. as both an accredited academic institution and an international ngo, world learning, inc. offers the best of theory and practice…

International
7
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

8
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
9
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
10
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

11
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
12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The George Washington University and the most unlike its peers is Make Life Skate Life. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 100 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL CHILDRENS CHARITY — $3,328,652 · OtherGREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL CHILDRENS CHARITYBOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $1,500,000 · OtherBOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALAIGLON COLLEGE ASSOCIATION — $774,909 · OtherAIGLON COLLEGE ASSOCIATIONCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IDEBOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $500,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IDEBOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IDE — $500,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IDEGOSH — $353,575 · Other+78 more — $2,089,925 · Other+78 moreGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $236,084 · EducationTrustees of Tufts College — $71,079 · EducationTHE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER — $42,000 · EducationCornell University — $40,834 · EducationNew York University — $30,000 · Education+4 more — $28,538 · EducationMAKE LIFE SKATE LIFE — $18,800 · InternationalAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID — $15,000 · InternationalREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC — $10,000 · InternationalTHE MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE — $3,000 · InternationalTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION — $31,794 · Arts & CultureSPORTS HUMANITARIAN GROUP INC — $3,000 · Recreation & SportsCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $2,600 · Philanthropy
Other$9,047,061Education$448,535International$46,800Arts & Culture$31,794Recreation & Sports$3,000Philanthropy$2,600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $236,084 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $71,079 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAZI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER — $42,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $40,834 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION — $31,794 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNew York University — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE LIFE SKATE LIFE — $18,800 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCODEORG — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSUSSEX SCHOOL INC — $5,538 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSPORTS HUMANITARIAN GROUP INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROOM TO READ — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College
  • Who funds RAZI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER
  • Who funds Cornell University
  • Who funds TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds New York University

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Blue Sands Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Blue Sands Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Blue Sands Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 100 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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