Nevada · Private foundation
Sanborn Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $28k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $434k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Sanborn Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $27k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $34k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $23k | 45% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $29k | 62% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $16k | 85% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $6k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $6k | 75% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $6k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stand Up to Cancer | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Operation Homefront Inc | $14,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Dynamic Scholarship Fund Inc | $6,600 | 7 | 2% |
| Pedal the Cause | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Turning Point USA Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Heather Janikowski Foundation | $5,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Healthnetwork Foundation Fka Health Net Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Pawtastic Friends Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Als Foundation | $3,250 | 7 | 25% |
| Summerlin South Little League | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($45k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sanborn Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Sanborn Family Foundation
- How much does Sanborn Family Foundation give?
- Sanborn Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $27,503 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sanborn Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Human Services (15%), Recreation & Sports (13%).
- Who are Sanborn Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Stand Up to Cancer ($20k), Operation Homefront Inc ($14k), Dynamic Scholarship Fund Inc ($7k).
- Does Sanborn Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sanborn Family 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 Sanborn Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is Sanborn Family Foundation based?
- Sanborn Family Foundation is based in NV.
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