· Private foundation
Blue Sands Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $231k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $174k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 44% of grant dollars ($4.2M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 56% that went abroad ($5.4M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% 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
Beyond the US: 56% of all-years giving ($5.4M)
9 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY2× · 2019–2023 · $236k · revenue +35%
Trustees of Tufts College2× · 2020–2021 · $71k · revenue +39%
AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID3× · 2019–2022 · $15k · revenue +215%
Funded once
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IDEBOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2018 · $500k
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IDEone grant, 2023 · $500k
- GGOSHone grant, 2021 · $354k
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.
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.
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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,…
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.
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…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
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…
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.…
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…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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.
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.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Blue Sands Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blue Sands Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
How this is measured
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