· Private foundation
Sand Dollar W 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
98% of Sand Dollar W Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Sand Dollar W Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 17 organizations, $135k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k17 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $98k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCARBOROUGH LAND TRUST | $37,500 |
| MIDDLESEX SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| MAINE ISLAND TRAIL ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND LAND TRUST COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| ROCA KIDZ CLUB | $8,853 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| US COURT TENNIS PRESERVATION FOUNDATION (PDP) | $5,000 |
| ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| MILLBROOK SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| POMFRET SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL OF MAINE | $2,500 |
| PROUT NECK ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| WINSOR SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| THE US JESTERS CLUB | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2023, 28 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TFTHE FESSENDEN SCHOOL7× · 2017–2024 · $124k · revenue +9%
Maine Island Trail Association7× · 2017–2023 · $45k · revenue +55%- MCMOMENTUM CONSERVATION5× · 2017–2022 · $26k · revenue +527%
Funded once
Portland Museum of Artgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +33%
COMMUNITY SERVINGS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +72%- SLSCARBOUROUGH LAND TRUSTone grant, 2017 · $5k
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 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.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
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Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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How this is measured
76 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. 76 of the 112 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Maine Island Trail Association ↗
- Who funds MOMENTUM CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MILLBROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES COURT TENNIS PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds Portland Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds PROUTS NECK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST LITERARY SEMINAR INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds ST MICHAEL'S COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Chebeague & Cumberland Land Trust ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT COUNTY REGIONAL YMCA ↗
- Who funds FILM FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER TWILIGHT ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE WINSOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The One by One Project Inc · Allen & Franka Charlupski Foundation · Grayson Family Foundation · John Sage Foundation · The Orchard Foundation · Fields Pond Foundation Inc · The Royal Little Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sand Dollar W Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sand Dollar W Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc: 29% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
- Rehearsal for Life Inc: 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Steps to Success Inc: 5% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: 3% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc: 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
- The Fessenden School: 0% of income from government
- Steppingstone Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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