· Private foundation
Cc Sand Dollar Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of CC SAND DOLLAR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FINGERLAKES SPCA OF CNY | $15,000 |
| SKANEATELES LAKE ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| CNY CAT COALITION INC | $4,000 |
| TEN LINES CLUB | $3,000 |
| GREATER GOOD CHARITIES | $3,000 |
| ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND | $3,000 |
| SKANEATELES FESTIVAL | $2,500 |
| ASPCA | $2,000 |
| CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND | $2,000 |
| PROJECT HEALING WATERS | $2,000 |
| CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS | $1,000 |
| ALLEY CAT ALLIES | $368 |
| CHARITY NAVIGATOR | $100 |
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 human-services grants (FY21–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +84% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 12 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, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SLSKANEATELES LAKE ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2020–2024 · $12k · revenue +460%
- CNCentral New York Cat Coalition Inc2× · 2022–2024 · $5k · revenue +84%
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY2× · 2021–2022 · $800 · revenue +11%
Funded once
- SESKANEATELES ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2020 · $3k
- FBFOOD BANK OF CNYone grant, 2020 · $2k
- TKTHE KIA FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
ACRs programs promote better care for community cats through trap-neuter-return. Local programs include placing unwanted cats in new homes, running a low-cost spay/neuter clinic, and providing support for local feral cat caretakers.…
Our mission is to find and promote the most effective ways to help animals. to do this, we conduct annual charity evaluations and recommend the most effective animal charities. we also provide grants to build and strengthen animal advocacy…
Animal care centers of nyc's (acc) mission is to end animal homelessness in nyc.
Saving southern kitties mission is to save cats and kittens from high kill animal controls, house them in team foster homes, provide quality veterinary care and adopt them into forever homes.
Promoting animal welfare in a synergistic and comprehensive manner by providing legal representation and resources for cases that benefit animal welfare and rendering aid to animals that are involved with the legal system.
Spokanimal leads communities in humane/proactive ways to promote and preserve the human-companion animal bond.
To advance the humane treatment of dogs and cats by providing comprehensive sheltering, medical care, and behavioral support. we strive to ensure every animal has the opportunity to find a permanent, loving home through community education…
To connect people and organizations to transform the health, welfare and value of companion cats.
Icaw is a global force for advancing animal welfare within industries worldwide. we collaborate with leaders at multinational corporations and inspire public action to drive meaningful change for animals everywhere. guided by science and a…
Tenth life provides veterinary care, foster homes, and adoptive placement to stray cats and kittens, prioritizing those with special needs. the organization works to end unnecessary euthanasia and cat homelessness through educational…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alley Cat Allies Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 30 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 SKANEATELES LAKE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Central New York Cat Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SKANEATELES ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds TEN LIVES CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER GOOD CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds SKANEATELES FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL ALLIANCE OF GREATER SYRACUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Alley Cat Allies Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds SPCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Bryce Family Foundation · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Cc Sand Dollar Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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