· Private foundation
Richard and Ellen Sandler Family Foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
83% of Richard and Ellen Sandler Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Jewish Federations Of North America Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Richard and Ellen Sandler Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 17 organizations, $391k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k12 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $141k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MILKEN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL | $55,000 |
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $54,620 |
| IKAR | $36,000 |
| LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $20,750 |
| LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION | $17,357 |
| SINAI TEMPLE | $11,445 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC | $10,000 |
| SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| VALLEY BETH SHALOM | $9,000 |
| OPENDOR MEDIA INC | $6,000 |
| JEWISH GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVE | $5,000 |
| SCGA JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2023, 27 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BSBRENTWOOD SCHOOL3× · 2019–2021 · $198k · revenue +6%
- PCPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2023 · $175k · revenue +57%
- MCMILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL4× · 2019–2023 · $115k · revenue +149%
Funded once
- UUCLAone grant, 2021 · $43k
- URUC REGENTSone grant, 2021 · $40k
- HUHOWARD UNIVERSITY GOLF PROGRAMone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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.
To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…
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…
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…
The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
Bje enhances the quality of, increases access to, and encourages participation in jewish education throughout the jewish communities of greater los angeles. bje is an advocate, planner, catalyst, and creative leader for strengthening and…
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
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.
The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…
How this is measured
56 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. 56 of the 79 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRENTWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE HIDE AND SEEK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
- Who funds BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ELNET ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE HAROLD AND CAROLE PUMP FOUNDATION (FKA THE HAROLD PUMP FOUNDATION) ↗
- Who funds JEWISH GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds OPENDOR MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Jewish Social Response ↗
- Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
- Who funds BIGHORN GOLF CLUB CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds LION GLOBAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds TOWER CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLEL AT UCLA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · The Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Lynn & Les Bider Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles Group · Hyman Levine Family Foundation L'Dor V'Dor · Jewish Communal Fund · The Annenberg Foundation · Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richard and Ellen Sandler Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard and Ellen Sandler Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Aleph Institute Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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