New Jersey · Private foundation
George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $4.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 81
- Grants FY2025
- 78
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $470,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 62 to 83
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $73M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 79 | $4.0M | 9% |
| FY2024 | 78 | $3.8M | 4% |
| FY2023 | 77 | $3.9M | 1% |
| FY2022 | 83 | $4.0M | 29% |
| FY2021 | 67 | $3.5M | 18% |
| FY2020 | 62 | $3.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Watershed Institute Inc | $1,718,334 | 6 | 10% |
| Homefront Inc | $966,566 | 6 | 2% |
| Bucks County Playhouse Theater Inc | $865,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Princeton Senior Resource Center Dba Center for Modern Aging Princeton | $800,000 | 4 | 12% |
| Sustainable Princeton Inc | $528,500 | 6 | 58% |
| Climate Central Inc | $500,000 | 5 | 1% |
| C-Change Conversations | $475,000 | 6 | 44% |
| Millhill Child & Family Development Corporation | $440,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Princeton | $430,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Warren Village Inc | $365,815 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 76 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 73 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Curtis W McGraw Foundation · The Burke Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · Tenacre Foundation · Educational Ventures Inc · Oceanfirst Foundation
How this is measured
Compare George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation with peer funders
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About George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation
- How much does George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation give?
- George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation reported 81 grants totaling $4,159,532 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 62 and 83 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), Human Services (16%), Environment (15%).
- Who are George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Watershed Institute Inc ($1.7M), Homefront Inc ($967k), Bucks County Playhouse Theater Inc ($865k).
- Does George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc, Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
- Where is George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation based?
- George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation is based in NJ.
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