How much did Mara Burros-Sandler Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of Mara Burros-Sandler Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

aubin picturesapertureisrael philharmonic

2022

justice

2023

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2024

miami

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k6 grants · $32k
$10k–50k4 grants · $106k
$50k–250k3 grants · $190k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

Basser Center for BRCA at Penn Medicine$90,000
America-Israel Democracy Coalition$50,000
The Representation Project$50,000
Worldwide Friends Foundation$48,000
EARL MONROE New Ren Basketball Charter School$30,000
AREIVIM PHILANTHROPIC GROUP$18,000
Merit Spread Foundation Inc$10,000
Women's Emergency Network$9,000
Miami Foundation for Mental Health$8,000
Children's Village at Lotus$5,000
American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic$4,800
Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impair$3,000
BIGVISIONS$2,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 29% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$714k · 10 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$714k

$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%

+31%

Still filing today

40%

65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $213k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationReligionInternationalOther

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

AP
AREIVIM PHILANTHROPIC GROUP
3× · 2022–2024 · $54k · revenue +12%
BG
BRIDGE GOLF FOUNDATION
2× · 2021–2022 · $43k · revenue +108%
RA
RX ART INC
2× · 2021–2023 · $10k · revenue +14%

Funded once

TR
THE REDFORD CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +176%
AP
AUBIN PICTURESgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +133%
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAELI NAVY SEALS
one grant, 2023 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Jewish Film Institute

The Jewish Film Institute champions bold films and filmmakers that expand and evolve the Jewish story for audiences everywhere.

Arts & Culture

The American Friends of Museums

Recognizing, promoting, and honoring its outstanding partner museums in israel by providing exhibition, program, project and financial support through the generosity of its donors.

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American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel.

Religion

American Friends of Mosdos Montreal Inc

To promote and enhance jewish religious observance

Religion

Adi Israel Foundation Inc

Aleh Israel Foundation, Inc.(The Foundation)is a Foundation that provides support to rehabilitative centers caring for most severely disabled children in Israel.

International

The Jewish Studio Project

Jsp cultivates creativity as a jewish practice for spiritual connection and social transformation. we envision a future in which every person is connected to their inherent creativity as a force for healing, liberation and transformation.

Religion

American Friends of Torah and Tefilah

To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa

Religion

Israel Venture Network

The Organization is at the forefront of the social business arena in Israel, nurturing and growing this emerging sector and generating sustainable social impact by providing Israel's social businesses with knowledge, financing and business…

Education

Boston Jewish Film Inc

The organization celebrates the richness of the jewish experience through film and media. throughout the year, the festival engages and inspires the community to explore the full spectrum of jewish life, values and culture.

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Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival

Bringing community together through films that show the jewish culture and traditions.

Arts & Culture

The Contemporary Jewish Museum

Makes the diversity of jewish experience relevant through art & programs that challenge & inspire.

Arts & Culture

Artis Contemporary Israeli Art Fundinc

Artis is an independent nonprofit organization that supports contemporary artists from israel whose work addresses aesthetic, social and political questions to inspire reflection and debate.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Opendor Media Inc and the most unlike its peers is The New 42ND Street Inc. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 18 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/33

the rest of the field

10,118/120,727

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.

05the grantee network

32 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/32

Grantees still filing

23/32

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,153,725Arts & Culture$442,100Philanthropy$170,000Religion$154,000Environment$150,000International$148,000Human Services$71,800

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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY25.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Community Federation of San · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Margaret and Daniel Loeb Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation · Koret Foundation · The Ford Foundation

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 organisation Mara Burros-Sandler Foundation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WHEN WE BAND TOGETHER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~0 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 853063212 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on WHEN WE BAND TOGETHER, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 60% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Mara Burros-Sandler Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mara Burros-Sandler Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Mara Burros-Sandler Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

32 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mara Burros-Sandler Foundation?

More from the funding graph

Mara Burros-Sandler Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

32 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mara Burros-Sandler Foundation?

More from the funding graph