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Kim and Martin Sands Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Kim and Martin Sands Family Foundation Inc

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.

$170k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

International$170kReligion$83kRecreation & Sports$51kEducation$37kHealth$35kHuman Services$20kCivil Rights$15kArts & Culture$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $46k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$213k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL NAVY SEALS$50,000
UJA - JCC GREENWICH$16,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES$10,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$10,000
FRIENDS OF OFANIM$10,000
EMUNAH OF AMERICA INC$9,638
AMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS$9,638
MAGEN DAVID ADOM$7,500
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE (ADL)$7,308
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH$6,966
TEMPLE SHOLOM$5,328
GREENWICH RIDING & TRAILS ASSOC$5,000
CHABAD AT UNION COLLEGE$5,000
CHABAD LUBAVITCH$3,245
ROUND HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC$2,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CARVER CENTER: $300 → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $200 → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $200 → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 9%THE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION: $300 → 17%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 9%THE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION: $800 → 17%THE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION: $300 → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $3k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $3k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $1k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $1k → 17%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
MA
WY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 39% of Kim and Martin Sands Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 32% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 19%.

Kim and Martin Sands Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 47% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$263k · 37 repeat orgs$174k to everyone else

37 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
27

Total granted

$263k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+30%

Still filing today

65%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • UF
    UJA FEDERATION OF GREENWICH INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $57k · revenue +83%
  • GR
    GREENWICH RIDING & TRAILS ASSOCIATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +34%
  • FRIENDS OF OFANIM INC
    2× · 2019–2024 · $10k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • IL
    ISRAEL LACROSSE ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +8%
  • LC
    LAFAYETTE COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +28%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
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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The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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2
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
3
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
4
Israel Cancer Research Fund Inc

To support cancer research in israel, for the benefit of israel and all mankind.

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5
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
6
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
7
Chelsea Jewish Lifecare Inc

The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…

Health
8
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
9
Israel Emergency Alliance

Standwithus is an international, education organization dedicated to informing the public about israel & combating extremism & anti-semitism. we believe education is the road to peace. (see continuation on schedule o)

International
10
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
11
Beth Israel Medical Center

Since its founding, over 120 years ago, as a medical dispensary to meet the needs of the impoverished and underserved jewish community of the lower east side, beth israel medical center has been committed to the care of persons of all…

Health
12
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uja Federation of Greenwich Inc; the most unlike its peers is 13 Hands Equine Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 77 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
33/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UJA FEDERATION OF GREENWICH INC: $57,110 · OtherUJA FEDERATION OF GREENWICH INCTEMPLE SHOLOM INC: $20,922 · OtherTEMPLE SHOLOM INCIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNION COLLEGE: $15,500 · OtherUNION COLLEGECHABAD AT UNION COLLEGE: $11,500 · OtherCHABAD AT UNION COLLEGEGREENWICH RIDING & TRAILS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,500 · OtherAMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS: $9,638 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE (ADL): $7,808 · Other+41 more: $55,995 · Other+41 moreBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $55,427 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATIONAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC: $50,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS…FRIENDS OF OFANIM INC: $10,300 · InternationalFRIENDS OF OFANIM INCFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $10,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESEMUNAH OF AMERICA INC: $9,638 · InternationalEMUNAH OF AMERICA INCAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $7,500 · International+2 more: $6,500 · InternationalISRAEL LACROSSE ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsPEGASUS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $6,500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $20,000 · EducationBucknell University: $3,000 · EducationHASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $600 · EducationMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesTHE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION INC: $1,400 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $800 · Human Services+1 more: $300 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $6,966 · Arts & CultureSARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $600 · Arts & CultureBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $2,300 · HealthSharsheret Inc: $1,400 · HealthCURE JM FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthTHE HEART BROTHERS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC: $300 · HealthGIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC: $300 · Health+1 more: $200 · Health
Other$208,973International$149,365Recreation & Sports$32,500Education$24,600Human Services$9,500Arts & Culture$7,566Health$6,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUJA FEDERATION OF GREENWICH INC: $57,110 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $55,427 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetISRAEL LACROSSE ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH RIDING & TRAILS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF OFANIM INC: $10,300 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMUNAH OF AMERICA INC: $9,638 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $6,966 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEGASUS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR A SECURE AMERICA INC: $4,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCOFFEE FOR GOOD INC: $3,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetBucknell University: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC: $2,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROUND HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $2,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $2,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget13 HANDS EQUINE RESCUE INC: $2,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES FUND INC: $1,900 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetJewish Council on Urban Affairs: $1,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMet Council Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $1,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOOD DOG FOUNDATION INC: $1,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEART BROTHERS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHASBARA FELLOWSHIPS INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSILVER SHIELD ASSOCIATION INC: $900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION INC: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Doug Coombs Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPECONIC LAND TRUST INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEREDITARY NEUROPATHY FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HAMPTON VILLAGE AMBULANCE INC ASSOCIATION: $200 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetEAST HAMPTON TOWN PBA: $200 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundThe Resource Foundati…S & L Marx FoundationCombined Jewish Phila…Jjj Family FoundationSimmons Family Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Boston Foundation IncMorgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY18.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Resource Foundation Inc · S & L Marx Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jjj Family Foundation · Simmons Family Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Boston Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Kim and Martin Sands Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kim and Martin Sands Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich: 7% of income from government
  • Bridgeport Youth Lacrosse Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Greenwich Alliance for Education Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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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Find your warmest path to Kim and Martin Sands Family Foundation Inc 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 77 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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