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Sanctuary for Families Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Sanctuary for Families Inc

New york's leading service provider and advocate for survivors of domestic violence, sex trafficking and related forms of gender violence.

$2.0M
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Human Services$412kCrime & Legal$196kHousing & Shelter$58kPhilanthropy$19k
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $6,629, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,973,025 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,966,396 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$6,629
Median grant
1
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP$6,629
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $19k → 20%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $18k → 20%New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault: $15k → 17%NYC ALLIANCE AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT: $13k → 17%NYC ALLIANCE AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT: $9k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$607k · 4 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
3

Total granted

$607k
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+20%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NY
    NEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $196k · revenue +131%
  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY ALLIANCE AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $37k · revenue +43%
  • GW
    GRAHAM WINDHAM
    2× · 2019–2020 · $37k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LONG ISLAND
    one grant, 2017 · $48k · revenue +20%
  • FF
    FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC
    one grant, 2017 · $19k · revenue -6%
  • AF
    ALI FORNEY CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +161%
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EDWIN GOULD SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $338,149 · OtherEDWIN GOULD SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INCNEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC: $195,844 · OtherNEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LONG ISLAND: $48,277 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LONG ISLANDNEW YORK CITY ALLIANCE AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT INC: $36,889 · Human ServicesNEW YORK CIT…GRAHAM WINDHAM: $36,582 · Human ServicesGRAHAM WINDH…FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $19,232 · PhilanthropyALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$582,270Human Services$73,471Philanthropy$19,232Housing & Shelter$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEDWIN GOULD SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $338,149 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC: $195,844 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LONG ISLAND: $48,277 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CITY ALLIANCE AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT INC: $36,889 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetGRAHAM WINDHAM: $36,582 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $19,232 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sanctuary for Families Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sanctuary for Families Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 7 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2.2M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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