· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BOULDER MUSEUM OF CONTEMP ART | $20,000 |
| PARKLAND CENTER FOR CLINICAL INNOVATION | $20,000 |
| USA CYCLING FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CAHME | $14,000 |
| THE HAP FOUNDATION | $11,500 |
| BREAKTHROUGH ALLIANCE OF Colorado | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +111% since the first grant, against +49% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Creating curious, kind, courageous, and adventurous learners and leaders.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 38 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 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 YWCA BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MACKINTOSH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Alliance of Colorado Inc ↗
- Who funds BIXBY & ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds LIFE TIME FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sachs Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sachs Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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