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George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving
81
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$470k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.8MHuman Services$3.2MEnvironment$3.0MArts & Culture$1.8MHousing & Shelter$1.4MYouth Development$1.1MPhilanthropy$977kFood & Nutrition$943kOther$0
02FY2025 · 81 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k45 grants · $890k
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $2.1M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
$25,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$73M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KINDERSMILE FOUNDATION - TRENTON$470,000
BUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE$375,000
THE WATERSHED INSTITUTE$301,667
PRINCETON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$180,000
PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY$150,000
C-CHANGE CONVERSATIONS$150,000
WARREN VILLAGE$127,865
FISHERMAN'S MARK$125,000
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$120,000
SUSTAINABLE PRINCETON$120,000
WEECYCLE$110,000
PRINCETON FAMILY YMCA$105,000
CLIMATE CENTRAL$100,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$100,000
PROJECT WORTHMORE$80,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PROJECT WORTHMORE: $80k → 8%FISHERMAN'S MARK: $125k → 4%PROJECT WORTHMORE: $80k → 8%FISHERMAN'S MARK: $75k → 4%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: $128k → 12%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%SUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER: $25k → 12%RESCUE MISSION OF TRENTON: $30k → 11%RESCUE MISSION OF TRENTON: $30k → 11%RESCUE MISSION OF TRENTON: $30k → 11%RESCUE MISSION OF TRENTON: $30k → 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%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: $75k → 11%MILLHILL CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT: $65k → 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%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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
VA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 86 repeat orgs$486k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

86 repeat relationships: 72 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

86
16

Total granted

$22M
$364k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+27%

Still filing today

69%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    6× · 2020–2025 · $967k · revenue +19%
  • BC
    BUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE THEATER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $865k · revenue +364%
  • PRINCETON SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER DBA CENTER FOR MODERN AGING PRINCETON
    4× · 2020–2023 · $800k · revenue +371%

Funded once

  • PM
    PENN MEDICINE PRINCETON HEALTH
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +27%
  • RC
    Ridgeview Conservancy
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
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.

04Its field

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.

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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
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
4
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
5
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
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
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
9
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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10
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
11
Pinchot Institute for Conservation

The pinchot institute for conservation is a public benefit non-profit corporation. we are passionate about protecting nature and creating breakthroughs that result in more sustaianable ecosystems and economies. the institute is…

Environment
12
Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc

The mission of the princeton symphony orchestra is to leverage the power of live music to uplift the human experience.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is N J Coalition to End Homelessness; 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.
04the grantee network

79 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 79 of the 112 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/79
Grantees still filing
58/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KINDERSMILE FOUNDATION - TRENTON: $2,785,000 · OtherKINDERSMILE FOUNDATION - TRENTONMERCER STREET FRIENDS: $851,000 · OtherMERCER STREET FRIENDSPRINCETON FIRST AID RESCUE SQUAD: $760,000 · OtherPRINCETON FIRST AID RESCUE SQUADPRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $640,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $540,000 · OtherPRINCETON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $470,000 · OtherYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PRINCETON: $430,000 · OtherCLIMATE CENTRAL INC: $500,000 · Other+58 more: $5,228,194 · Other+58 morePRINCETON SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER DBA CENTER FOR MODERN AGING PRINCETON: $800,000 · Human ServicesPRINCETON SENI…MILLHILL CHILD & FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $440,000 · Human ServicesMILLHILL CHILD…WARREN VILLAGE INC: $365,815 · Human ServicesWARREN VILLAGE…Fishermans Mark: $300,000 · Human ServicesFishermans Mar…CENTER AT 353 INC: $265,000 · Human ServicesCENTER AT 353 …PROJECT WORTHMORE: $220,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT WORTHM…Rescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey: $120,000 · Human ServicesSUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC: $110,000 · Human Services+10 more: $432,520 · Human Services+10 moreTHE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC: $1,718,334 · EnvironmentTHE WATERSHED…SUSTAINABLE PRINCETON INC: $528,500 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE P…SOURLAND CONSERVANCY: $305,000 · EnvironmentSOURLAND CONS…FRIENDS OF PRINCETON OPEN SPACE: $160,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF PR…+1 more: $50,000 · EnvironmentHOMEFRONT INC: $966,566 · EducationHOMEFRONT I…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $667,250 · EducationTRUSTEES OF…C-CHANGE CONVERSATIONS: $475,000 · EducationC-CHANGE CO…Princeton-Blairstown Center Inc: $120,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION INC: $100,000 · EducationEmbright Education: $100,000 · Education+2 more: $70,000 · EducationBUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE THEATER INC: $865,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY INC: $360,000 · Arts & CultureSHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $202,000 · Arts & CultureCapital Harmony Works Inc: $200,000 · Arts & CultureARTS COUNCIL OF PRINCETON: $90,000 · Arts & CultureWESTRICK MUSIC ACADEMY INC: $79,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $70,000 · Arts & CulturePrinceton Area Community Foundation Inc: $860,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $15,000 · PhilanthropyWEDONTWASTE INC: $343,423 · Food & NutritionDELAWARE VALLEY FOOD PANTRY INC: $120,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD FORWARD INC: $90,000 · Food & NutritionFarm2People: $40,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $30,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$12,204,194Human Services$3,053,335Environment$2,761,834Education$2,498,816Arts & Culture$1,866,500Philanthropy$875,000Food & Nutrition$623,423

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC: $1,718,334 over 6y, 9.8% of budgetHOMEFRONT INC: $966,566 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE THEATER INC: $865,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetPrinceton Area Community Foundation Inc: $860,000 over 6y, 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: $667,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSUSTAINABLE PRINCETON INC: $528,500 over 6y, 58% of budgetCLIMATE CENTRAL INC: $500,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetC-CHANGE CONVERSATIONS: $475,000 over 6y, 44% of budgetMILLHILL CHILD & FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $440,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PRINCETON: $430,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetWARREN VILLAGE INC: $365,815 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetYOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY INC: $360,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetISLES INC: $360,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetWEDONTWASTE INC: $343,423 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSOURLAND CONSERVANCY: $305,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetFishermans Mark: $300,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetNATIONAL JUNIOR TENNIS & LEARNING OF TRENTON INC: $300,000 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetCENTER AT 353 INC: $265,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC: $245,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetLAWRENCE HOPEWELL TRAIL CORPORATION: $240,000 over 5y, 89% of budgetPROJECT WORTHMORE: $220,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $202,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetCapital Harmony Works Inc: $200,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetThe Petey Greene Program Inc: $175,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF PRINCETON OPEN SPACE: $160,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $150,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetSAVE A FRIEND TO HOMELESS ANIMALS: $140,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetCLINIC FOR THE REHABILITATION OF WILDLIFE INC: $135,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetRescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey: $120,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDELAWARE VALLEY FOOD PANTRY INC: $120,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetPrinceton-Blairstown Center Inc: $120,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetSUN VALLEY YOUTH CENTER INC: $110,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEmbright Education: $100,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Mercer County Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetN J COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $100,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSHARE MY MEALS INC: $90,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetCalMatters: $90,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOMERSET COUNTY: $90,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetARM IN ARM INC: $90,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF PRINCETON: $90,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetFOOD FORWARD INC: $90,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTRICK MUSIC ACADEMY INC: $79,500 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetHEART AND HAND CENTER: $75,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetCAPITAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHENRY J AUSTIN HEALTH CENTER INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGOOD GRIEF INC: $65,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budget
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.

  • Who funds THE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMEFRONT INC ↗
  • Who funds BUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE THEATER 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 SUSTAINABLE PRINCETON INC ↗
  • Who funds CLIMATE CENTRAL INC ↗
  • Who funds C-CHANGE CONVERSATIONS ↗
  • Who funds MILLHILL CHILD & FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PRINCETON ↗
  • Who funds WARREN VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
  • Who funds ISLES INC ↗
  • Who funds WEDONTWASTE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOURLAND CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Fishermans Mark ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JUNIOR TENNIS & LEARNING OF TRENTON INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER AT 353 INC ↗
  • Who funds DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds LAWRENCE HOPEWELL TRAIL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT WORTHMORE ↗
  • Who funds SHELL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Capital Harmony Works Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Petey Greene Program Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF PRINCETON OPEN SPACE ↗
  • Who funds LATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds SAVE A FRIEND TO HOMELESS ANIMALS ↗

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 250%6%23%51%90%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 112 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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