· Private foundation
Lawrence A Sanders Foundation Inc J Daniel Brede Managing Director
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of Lawrence A Sanders Foundation Inc J Daniel Brede Managing Director’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $615k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $285k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Boca Helping Hands | $130,000 |
| Hillsdale College | $105,000 |
| Community Foundation of PB & Martin Counties | $50,000 |
| Salvation Army | $45,000 |
| Literacy Coalition Palm Beach County | $40,000 |
| Reading is Fundamental | $30,000 |
| Martin County Council for the Arts | $30,000 |
| First Book | $30,000 |
| FAU Foundation Inc | $25,000 |
| American Red Cross | $25,000 |
| Our Father's House | $20,000 |
| St Joan of Arc Care Ministries | $20,000 |
| Wounded Warriors Family Support | $15,000 |
| Samaritans Purse | $15,000 |
| Fisher House Foundation | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $259k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
65 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- BHBOCA HELPING HANDS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $318k · revenue +7%
- RIREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $195k · revenue +181%
- FAFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $173k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- CTCoalition to End Homelessnessone grant, 2020 · $10k
- UOUniversity of Miamigraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +48%
- MAMake A Wish Foundationone grant, 2020 · $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.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
Organization mission: florida's children first is a non-profit, nonpartisan, independent advocacy organization committed to protecting and advancing the rights of children and youth impacted by the child welfare, juvenile justice, and…
Families first of palm beach county, through innovative programs, promotes generational change by addressing families emotional, physical, and social well-being.
Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…
To cultivate financial resources dedicated to building stronger families and stronger communities through the operations and programs of families first. contributing to the foundation is an investment in a safe, healthy and sustainable…
Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.
Barry university is a catholic institution of higher education founded by the adrian dominican sisters. with a liberal arts tradition, barry university is a scholarly community committed to the highest academic standards in undergraduate,…
Working in partnership with state business leaders to secure florida's future.
As part of the baptist health network, the mission of boca raton regional hospital is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist health is…
The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…
Better together helps at-risk families by empowering parents and surrounding them with community, meaningful work opportunities, and practical support. our volunteer-driven, professionally supported model provides direct services so that…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding South Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
41 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. 41 of the 79 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 BOCA HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST BOOK ↗
- Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD INC ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Christians Reaching Out To Society Inc ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER BASICS INC ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds THE LORD'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS CLUB OF WEST PALM BEACH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · The Jim Moran Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Carmax Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Lawrence A Sanders Foundation Inc J Daniel Brede Managing Director 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- United Way of Broward County Inc — 27% of income from government
- United Way Miami Inc — 23% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Palm Beach Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- Gulf Stream Council of Boy Scouts of America Inc — 9% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- United Way of Martin County Inc — 4% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- Jesus House of Hope Inc — 3% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% of income from government
- Ann Storck Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Gateway Community Outreach Inc — 0% of income from government
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.