West Virginia · Private foundation
Harry and Helen Sands Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $149k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Harry and Helen Sands Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 7 | $149k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $145k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $145k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $202k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $160k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $192k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $141k | 63% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $153k | 25% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandscrest Foundation Inc | $1,030,400 | 9 | 31% |
| Youth Services System Inc | $36,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Easter Seal Rehabilitation Center Inc | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Wheeling Symphony Society Inc | $17,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Arc of Ohio County | $11,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The King's Daughters Child Care Centers Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Faith in Action Caregivers Inc | $7,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Augusta Levy Learning Center Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rural Emergencytrauma Institute Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Wheeling | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandscrest Foundation Inc | $1,030,400 | 9 | 31% |
| Youth Services System Inc | $36,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Easter Seal Rehabilitation Center Inc | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Wheeling Symphony Society Inc | $17,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Arc of Ohio County | $11,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The King's Daughters Child Care Centers Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Faith in Action Caregivers Inc | $7,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Augusta Levy Learning Center Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rural Emergencytrauma Institute Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Wheeling | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wheeling Health Right Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Oglebay Institute | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($266k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Harry and Helen Sands Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 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: Stamp 2001 Charitable Fund · Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust · The Driehorst Family Foundation · August J & Thelma S Hoffmann Foundation · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · Helen J Prince Foundation Security National Trust Co Trustee · Chris Hess Foundation · Raymond A & Gertrude D Hyer Foundation · George W Bowers Family Charitable Trust · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · Robinson S Parlin Trust
How this is measured
Compare Harry and Helen Sands Charitable Trust with peer funders
About Harry and Helen Sands Charitable Trust
- How much does Harry and Helen Sands Charitable Trust give?
- Harry and Helen Sands Charitable Trust reported 7 grants totaling $148,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Harry and Helen Sands Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (74%), Youth Development (9%), Public Benefit (7%).
- Who are Harry and Helen Sands Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sandscrest Foundation Inc ($1.0M), Youth Services System Inc ($36k), Easter Seal Rehabilitation Center Inc ($25k).
- Does Harry and Helen Sands Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harry and Helen Sands Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Harry and Helen Sands Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Stamp 2001 Charitable Fund, Albert Schenk III & Kathleen H Schenk Charitable Trust, The Driehorst Family Foundation.
- Where is Harry and Helen Sands Charitable Trust based?
- Harry and Helen Sands Charitable Trust is based in WV.
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