· Private foundation
Harry and Helen Sands Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANDSCREST FOUNDATION | $120,000 |
| OHIO RIVER VALLEY COUNCIL | $15,000 |
| YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC | $2,500 |
| WHEELING SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC | $2,500 |
| KINGS DAUGHTERS CHILD CARE CENTER | $2,500 |
| OHIO VALLEY BOXING ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SFSandscrest Foundation Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $930k · revenue +66% · 31% of their budget
- YSYOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC4× · 2019–2024 · $26k · revenue +28%
- WSWHEELING SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC6× · 2018–2024 · $15k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- YLYOUNG LIFE OHIO VALLEYone grant, 2023 · $10k
- EWEASTERSEALS WEST VIRGINIAone grant, 2019 · $9k
- WMWVU MEDICINE WHEELING HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Provide services to people with disabilities. such services include assistance with housing, employment, transportation and recreational issues.
Providing opportunities to improve the health of our community.
We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.
Empowering children and adults with disabilities, military veterans, and people facing disadvantages to live full and meaningful lives.
Residential care home for elderly and handicapped.
Developmental services center (dsc) supports people with disabilities in living a rich and meaningful life.
Provide services to adults with developmental disabilities.
Provides occupational, physical, and speech therapies.
Provide services to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Assist individuals with developmental disabilities.
Easter seals makes profound, positive differences in the lives of people with disabilities by helping them live, work and play in their community.
Easter Seals East Georgia's mission is to provide exceptional services to ensure that people with disabilities and barriers to employment maximize their potential for employment and independence and broaden their opportunities for full…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wheeling Health Right Inc and the most unlike its peers is Easter Seal Rehabilitation Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 21 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 Sandscrest Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE OHIO VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELING SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEAL REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE KING'S DAUGHTERS CHILD CARE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION CAREGIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WHEELING ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA LEVY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELING HEALTH RIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds OGLEBAY INSTITUTE ↗
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: 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
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 Harry and Helen Sands Charitable Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.