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Robert V and Laraine M Sanford Charitable 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.

$17k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 10
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$2k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Robert V and Laraine M Sanford Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationReligionInternationalArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$17k33%
FY20238$37k25%
FY20229$148k33%
FY202110$148k50%
FY20205$126k60%
FY20199$191k33%
FY20189$230k44%
FY201710$300kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$567kAnimals$267kPhilanthropy$156kYouth Development$87kEducation$37kArts & Culture$37kHuman Services$20kRecreation & Sports$13kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($569k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Robert V and Laraine M Sanford Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSociety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County: $261,427 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetOrganic Outreach International Inc: $170,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetRancho Cielo Inc: $85,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetParaphrase Productions: $32,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetSentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation: $18,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTrinity Christian High School: $9,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLassen Park Foundation: $8,200 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetMonterey Peninsula Foundation: $5,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMonterey Peninsula College Foundation: $5,150 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEl Sistema Usasalinas Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPalma School Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetOrcat Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFellowship of Christian Athletes: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank for Monterey County: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarketplace Meets Mission Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBreast Cancer Assistance Group: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Justice Mission: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWreaths Across America: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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.

Monterey Peninsula FoundationCA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Small World Foundation (Previously Known as Bright Star Foundation) · Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula · Pebble Beach Company Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

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About Robert V and Laraine M Sanford Charitable Foundation

How much does Robert V and Laraine M Sanford Charitable Foundation give?
Robert V and Laraine M Sanford Charitable Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $17,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Robert V and Laraine M Sanford Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (47%), Animals (22%), Philanthropy (13%).
Who are Robert V and Laraine M Sanford Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County ($261k), Organic Outreach International Inc ($170k), Rancho Cielo Inc ($85k).
Does Robert V and Laraine M Sanford Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robert V and Laraine M Sanford Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Robert V and Laraine M Sanford Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Small World Foundation (Previously Known as Bright Star Foundation), Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula.
Where is Robert V and Laraine M Sanford Charitable Foundation based?
Robert V and Laraine M Sanford Charitable Foundation is based in CA.

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 31 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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