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Sachs 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $196k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $602k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THOME NATURE CENTRE | $166,666 |
| PAWS CHICAGO | $146,500 |
| AMERICAN JEWEISH COMMITTEE | $100,000 |
| HOPE CHICAGO | $75,000 |
| GOODMAN THEATER | $64,073 |
| THE FAMILY INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC | $25,000 |
| NIU FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PARKLAND CENTER FOR CLINICAL INNOVATION | $20,000 |
| BOULDER MUSEUM OF CONTEMP ART | $20,000 |
| USA CYCLING FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CAHME | $14,000 |
| THE HAP FOUNDATION | $11,500 |
| YWCA BOULDER COUNTY | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k 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
- PCPAWS CHICAGO5× · 2020–2024 · $409k · revenue +210%
- TETHORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE2× · 2020–2021 · $309k · revenue +162%
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE2× · 2021–2024 · $199k · revenue +111%
Funded once
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +49%- NYNEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INCone grant, 2023 · $75k
- MAMACKINTOSH ACADEMYone grant, 2023 · $11k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mackintosh Academy and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 38 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 PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds PARKLAND CENTER FOR CLINICAL INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds The Family Institute ↗
- Who funds THE DAIRY CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE NEW SCHOOL BOULDER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation) ↗
- Who funds BOULDER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds MACKINTOSH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc ↗
- Who funds YWCA BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BIXBY & ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds LIFE TIME FOUNDATION ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · L & N Andreas Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Impactassetsinc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organization Sachs Family 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.
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.
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