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George H and Estelle M Sands 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.

$4.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
80
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$380k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$3.8MHuman Services$3.2MEnvironment$3.0MArts & Culture$1.8MHousing & Shelter$1.4MYouth Development$1.1MPhilanthropy$977kFood & Nutrition$943kOther$0
02FY2024 · 80 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k41 grants · $883k
  • $50k–250k28 grants · $2.7M
  • $250k+1 grant · $380k
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$72M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KINDERSMILE FOUNDATION - TRENTON$380,000
BUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE$225,000
THE WATERSHED INSTITUTE$216,667
PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY$200,000
PRINCETON FIRST AID RESCUE SQUAD$130,000
WARREN VILLAGE$122,950
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$120,000
PRINCETON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$115,000
PRINCETON FAMILY YMCA$105,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$100,000
BAILEY-MATTHEWS NATIONAL SHELL MUSEUM$100,000
CLIMATE CENTRAL$100,000
SUSTAINABLE PRINCETON$92,500
PROJECT WORTHMORE$80,000
WE DONT WASTE$76,750
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PROJECT WORTHMORE: $80k → 8%FISHERMAN'S MARK: $75k → 4%GREATER SOMERSET COUNTY YMCA: $10k → 5%PROJECT WORTHMORE: $30k → 8%FISHERMAN'S MARK: $25k → 4%LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY: $15k → 5%PROJECT WORTHMORE: $30k → 8%FISHERMAN'S MARK: $25k → 4%LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY: $15k → 5%FISHERMAN'S MARK: $25k → 4%LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY: $15k → 5%FISHERMAN'S MARK: $25k → 4%LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY: $15k → 5%LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY: $15k → 5%WARREN VILLAGE: $123k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $65k → 12%WARREN VILLAGE: $50k → 12%SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER: $35k → 12%SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER: $25k → 12%SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER: $25k → 12%RESCUE MISSION OF TRENTON: $30k → 11%RESCUE MISSION OF TRENTON: $30k → 11%RESCUE MISSION OF TRENTON: $30k → 11%THE ARC - MERCER: $5k → 11%UIH Family Partners: $25k → 11%ARM IN ARM: $15k → 11%ARM IN ARM: $15k → 11%ARM IN ARM: $15k → 11%ARM IN ARM: $15k → 11%ARM IN ARM: $15k → 11%MILLHILL CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT: $75k → 11%MILLHILL CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT: $75k → 11%MILLHILL CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT: $75k → 11%MILLHILL CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT: $75k → 11%MILLHILL CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT: $65k → 11%SHARE MY MEALS: $15k → 11%SHARE MY MEALS: $15k → 11%SHARE MY MEALS: $15k → 11%SHARE MY MEALS: $15k → 11%SHARE MY MEALS: $15k → 11%Princeton Senior Resource Center: $300k → 11%Princeton Senior Resource Center: $200k → 11%Princeton Senior Resource Center: $200k → 11%Princeton Senior Resource Center: $100k → 11%Trinity Counseling Services: $100k → 11%Trinity Counseling Services: $75k → 11%Trinity Counseling Services: $75k → 11%NJ Coalition to End Homelessness: $50k → 11%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

IL
NY
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
VA
TX
FL

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.

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$18M · 84 repeat orgs$424k to everyone else

84 repeat relationships — 75 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

84
15

Total granted

$18M
$321k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+39%

Still filing today

68%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthCrime & LegalOther

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

  • HOMEFRONT INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $892k · revenue +19%
  • PRINCETON SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER DBA CENTER FOR MODERN AGING PRINCETON
    4× · 2020–2023 · $800k · revenue +371%
  • BC
    BUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE THEATER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $490k · revenue +364%

Funded once

  • PM
    PENN MEDICINE PRINCETON HEALTH
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +27%
  • TC
    TRENTON COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $30k

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.

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New Jersey Policy Perspective

New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP) is a nonpartisan think tank that drives policy change to advance economic, social, and racial justice through evidence-based, independent research, analysis, and strategic communications.

Arts & Culture
2
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
3
Trenton Health Team Inc

Trenton Health Team's mission is to improve community health and well-being in the community of greater Trenton, New Jersey.

Health
4
Princeton Nursery School

Princeton Nursey School's mision is to provide quality childcare and preschool services to children 2.5 to 5 years old from working families with low to moderate incomes. For more than 90 years PNS has provided children with a positive…

Education
5
Princeton Tennis Program

The Princeton Tennis Program (PTP) is a nonprofit, year-round community tennis association serving youth and adults of the greater central New Jersey region. PTPs mission is growing the game of tennis by offering high quality group…

Recreation & Sports
6
The Princeton Festival a Nj Non-Profit Corporation

To enrich the communities we serve through a multi-dimensional, world-class performing arts summer festival. We create programs that excite, inform, inspire, and invite discovery and engagement as we aspire to become a nationally…

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7
New Jersey Citizen Action

To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.

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8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Ymca of Montclair New Jersey

The YMCA of Montclair welcomes all. We are a nonprofit that strengthens individuals, families, and community by developing spirit, mind, and body. Membership is open to all, with financial assistance available to those who live in our…

Human Services
10
New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund Inc

Promotes empowerment of low and middle income people through research, education, and training around public policy issues and direct counseling services.

Public Benefit
11
Princeton Midjersey Regional Chamber of Commerce Inc

The princeton regional chamber of commerce is committed to advancing the general welfare and prosperity of the princeton region so that its citizens and all areas of its business community shall prosper. through a wide variety of programs…

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12
Chemistry Council of New Jersey

To advance member interests, operational and environmental excellence, science,education, and community outreach in New Jersey.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is N J Coalition to End Homelessness and the most unlike its peers is Ridgeview Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Immigrant Worker SupportCommunity FoundationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Health Access Advocacy and …Food Banks and PantriesLocal Food System Organizat…Local History MuseumsAnimal Rescue and ShelterYouth Sports ProgramsElementary Literacy TutoringCommunity Arts CentersIndependent K-12 SchoolsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Senior Support ServicesCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr15%10%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr18%25%20–35yr14%32%35–55yr11%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr14%36%35–55yr11%20%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/73
the rest of the field
12%
6,333/52,219

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

73 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. 73 of the 105 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/73
Grantees still filing
54/73
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KINDERSMILE FOUNDATION - TRENTON — $2,315,000 · OtherKINDERSMILE FOUNDATION - TRENTONMERCER STREET FRIENDS — $776,000 · OtherMERCER STREET FRIENDSPRINCETON FIRST AID RESCUE SQUAD — $750,000 · OtherPRINCETON FIRST AID RESCUE SQUADPRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY — $490,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — $440,000 · OtherCLIMATE CENTRAL INC — $400,000 · OtherISLES INC — $360,000 · Other+55 more — $4,724,694 · Other+55 morePRINCETON SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER DBA CENTER FOR MODERN AGING PRINCETON — $800,000 · Human ServicesPRINCETON SENI…MILLHILL CHILD & FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $365,000 · Human ServicesMILLHILL CHILD…CENTER AT 353 INC — $255,000 · Human ServicesCENTER AT 353 …WARREN VILLAGE INC — $237,950 · Human ServicesWARREN VILLAGE…Fishermans Mark — $175,000 · Human ServicesFishermans Mar…PROJECT WORTHMORE — $140,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT WORTHM…Rescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey — $90,000 · Human ServicesSUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC — $85,000 · Human Services+9 more — $325,020 · Human Services+9 moreTHE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC — $1,416,667 · EnvironmentTHE WATERSHE…SUSTAINABLE PRINCETON INC — $408,500 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE …SOURLAND CONSERVANCY — $245,000 · EnvironmentSOURLAND CON…FRIENDS OF PRINCETON OPEN SPACE — $90,000 · Environment+1 more — $50,000 · EnvironmentHOMEFRONT INC — $891,566 · EducationHOMEFRONT IN…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $547,250 · EducationTRUSTEES OF …C-CHANGE CONVERSATIONS — $325,000 · EducationC-CHANGE CON…FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION INC — $100,000 · EducationPrinceton-Blairstown Center Inc — $100,000 · EducationEmbright Education — $90,000 · Education+1 more — $40,000 · EducationBUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE THEATER INC — $490,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY INC — $320,000 · Arts & CultureCapital Harmony Works Inc — $160,000 · Arts & CultureSHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $152,000 · Arts & CultureARTS COUNCIL OF PRINCETON — $75,000 · Arts & CultureWESTRICK MUSIC ACADEMY INC — $64,500 · Arts & CultureMCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $16,000 · Arts & CulturePrinceton Area Community Foundation Inc — $850,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $15,000 · PhilanthropyWEDONTWASTE INC — $308,423 · Food & NutritionDELAWARE VALLEY FOOD PANTRY INC — $100,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD FORWARD INC — $60,000 · Food & NutritionFarm2People — $30,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$10,255,694Human Services$2,472,970Environment$2,210,167Education$2,093,816Arts & Culture$1,327,500Philanthropy$865,000Food & Nutrition$498,423

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 budgetTHE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC — $1,416,667 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetHOMEFRONT INC — $891,566 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetPrinceton Area Community Foundation Inc — $850,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetPRINCETON SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER DBA CENTER FOR MODERN AGING PRINCETON — $800,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $547,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE THEATER INC — $490,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetSUSTAINABLE PRINCETON INC — $408,500 over 5y, 58% of budgetCLIMATE CENTRAL INC — $400,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetMILLHILL CHILD & FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $365,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetISLES INC — $360,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetC-CHANGE CONVERSATIONS — $325,000 over 5y, 44% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PRINCETON — $325,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetYOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY INC — $320,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetWEDONTWASTE INC — $308,423 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCENTER AT 353 INC — $255,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetSOURLAND CONSERVANCY — $245,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetLAWRENCE HOPEWELL TRAIL CORPORATION — $240,000 over 5y, 89% of budgetNATIONAL JUNIOR TENNIS & LEARNING OF TRENTON INC — $240,000 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetWARREN VILLAGE INC — $237,950 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC — $225,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetThe Petey Greene Program Inc — $175,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetFishermans Mark — $175,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetCapital Harmony Works Inc — $160,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetSHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $152,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC — $150,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetPROJECT WORTHMORE — $140,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCLINIC FOR THE REHABILITATION OF WILDLIFE INC — $125,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSAVE A FRIEND TO HOMELESS ANIMALS — $115,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetDELAWARE VALLEY FOOD PANTRY INC — $100,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPrinceton-Blairstown Center Inc — $100,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF PRINCETON OPEN SPACE — $90,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetRescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey — $90,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEmbright Education — $90,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetSUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC — $85,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Mercer County Inc — $80,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetARM IN ARM INC — $75,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSHARE MY MEALS INC — $75,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetHENRY J AUSTIN HEALTH CENTER INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY — $75,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetHEART AND HAND CENTER — $75,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF PRINCETON — $75,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCalMatters — $65,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWESTRICK MUSIC ACADEMY INC — $64,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetFOOD FORWARD INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD GRIEF INC — $55,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCAPITAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 THE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMEFRONT INC ↗
  • Who funds Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds PRINCETON SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER DBA CENTER FOR MODERN AGING PRINCETON ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds BUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds SUSTAINABLE PRINCETON INC ↗
  • Who funds CLIMATE CENTRAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MILLHILL CHILD & FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ISLES INC ↗
  • Who funds C-CHANGE CONVERSATIONS ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PRINCETON ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
  • Who funds WEDONTWASTE INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER AT 353 INC ↗
  • Who funds SOURLAND CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds LAWRENCE HOPEWELL TRAIL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JUNIOR TENNIS & LEARNING OF TRENTON INC ↗
  • Who funds WARREN VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds The Petey Greene Program Inc ↗
  • Who funds Fishermans Mark ↗
  • Who funds Capital Harmony Works Inc ↗
  • Who funds SHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT WORTHMORE ↗
  • Who funds CLINIC FOR THE REHABILITATION OF WILDLIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds SAVE A FRIEND TO HOMELESS ANIMALS ↗

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.

Princeton Area Commun…Bristol-Myers Squibb …The Robert Wood Johns…Curtis W McGraw Found…The Burke Foundation …Community Foundation …Citizens Philanthropi…Investors Foundation …Pseg Foundation IncTenacre FoundationEducational Ventures …Oceanfirst Foundation
Princeton Area Community Foundation IncNJ79.2× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 George H and Estelle M 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 250%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Anchor House Inc — 45% of income from government
  • Prevention Education Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Henry J Austin Health Center Inc — 34% of income from government
  • The Petey Greene Program Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Somerset County Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Isles Inc — 21% of income from government
  • Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
  • The Arcmercer Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Rescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey — 8% of income from government
  • Arts Council of Princeton — 6% of income from government
  • Puerto Rican Community Center Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Arm in Arm Inc — 4% of income from government
  • The Watershed Institute Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Young Audiences of New Jersey Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
25get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation?

Find your warmest path to George H and Estelle M 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 105 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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