· Private foundation
Sand Family Fund
Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k45 grants · $165k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $224k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRINITY REPERTORY COMPANY | $27,137 |
| ATTIC YOUTH CENTER | $20,000 |
| CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $16,971 |
| FORT COLLINS MEALS ON WHEELS | $15,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR LARIMER COUNTY | $15,000 |
| LARIMER COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE | $15,000 |
| SOPHIA ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FORT COLLINS | $15,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $13,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN | $11,721 |
| EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR FREEDOM FR RELIGION | $10,000 |
| CROSSROADS SAFEHOUSE | $10,000 |
| EDUCATION FUND TO STOP GUN VIOLENCE | $10,000 |
| CONNECTICUT COLLEGE | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
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…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
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.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
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.
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
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…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crossroads Rhode Island and the most unlike its peers is Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 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. 42 of the 55 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 Trinity Repertory Company ↗
- Who funds THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SOPHIA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FORT COLLINS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗
- Who funds LARIMER COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds THE WHEELER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE MATTHEWS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS SAFEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ATHENAEUM ↗
- Who funds DISABLED RESOURCE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds REMOTE AREA MEDICAL ↗
- Who funds NARBERTH COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds The Miriam Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
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: The Sand Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Ira S& Anna Galkin Charitable Tr · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · The Champlin Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · The Poudre Sand Fund · Pobble Stone Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Gertrude N & Seebert J Goldowsky 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 Sand Family Fund 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.
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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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