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.

Harry and Helen Sands Charitable Trust

Harry and Helen Sands Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Harry and Helen Sands Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$149k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$954kYouth Development$111kPublic Benefit$95kHuman Services$43kHealth$28kArts & Culture$17kFood & Nutrition$17kPhilanthropy$16kOther$0

02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k3 grants · $9k
$10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$50k–250k1 grant · $100k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SANDSCREST FOUNDATION	$100,000
OHIO RIVER VALLEY COUNCIL	$20,000
YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC	$10,000
EASTER SEALS REHABILITATION CENTER	$10,000
RURAL EMERGENCYTRAUMA INSTITUTE INC	$5,000
WHEELING SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC	$2,500
LAWRENCEFIELD PARISH CHURCH	$1,200

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $44k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.4M · 12 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+6%

Still filing today

42%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureOther

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

SF
Sandscrest Foundation Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +66% · 31% of their budget
YS
YOUTH SERVICES SYSTEM INC
5× · 2019–2025 · $36k · revenue +28%
WS
WHEELING SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC
7× · 2018–2025 · $18k · revenue +45%

Funded once

YL
YOUNG LIFE OHIO VALLEY
one grant, 2023 · $10k
EW
EASTERSEALS WEST VIRGINIA
one grant, 2019 · $9k
WM
WVU MEDICINE WHEELING HOSPITAL
one grant, 2023 · $5k

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.

Southeastern Ohio Center for Independent Living

Provide services to people with disabilities. such services include assistance with housing, employment, transportation and recreational issues.

Human Services

Wray Rehabilitation & Activities Center

Providing opportunities to improve the health of our community.

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Easter Seals Tristate

Empowering children and adults with disabilities, military veterans, and people facing disadvantages to live full and meaningful lives.

Employment

The Rehabilitation Center

Provides occupational, physical, and speech therapies.

—

Cincinnati's Optimum Residential Environments Inc

Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities

Health

Tri-County Center

Provide services to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

—

The Arc of the Mid Ohio Valley Inc

Mission is to promote and advocate for the welfare of people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities.

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Y E S the Arc Arc of Arizona Inc

Provide services to adults with developmental disabilities.

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Arc Group Employment Services

To provide employment opportunities to central ohioans with developmental disabilities.

Employment

Chesapeake Care Resources Inc

To provide quality services that enhance and improve life for individuals who have a developmental disability

Health

Cincinnati Center for Autism

We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.

Education

Easter Seals East Georgia Inc

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…

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wheeling Health Right Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rural Emergencytrauma Institute Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 23 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

11/12

Grantees still filing

8/12

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,322,490Human Services$43,500Health$37,500Arts & Culture$17,500Philanthropy$15,500Environment$1,500

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

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.

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.

Stamp 2001 Charitable FundWV22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Harry and Helen Sands Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harry and Helen Sands Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home