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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.

$389k
Granted FY2017
61
Grants FY2017
55
Organizations funded FY2017
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Median grant, FY2017
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2017
$27,137
States reached, FY2017
12
Total assets, FY2017
$10M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 45 grantees
All grantees of Sand Family Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Trinity Repertory Company$29,03710%
The Attic Youth Center$20,00011%
Cancer Research Institute Inc$16,97110%
Sophia Academy$15,85011%
Fort Collins Habitat for Humanity$15,00010%
The Food Bank for Larimer County$15,00010%
Larimer County Search and Rescue Inc$15,000115%
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc$13,00010%
Human Rights Campaign Inc$11,72110%
The Wheeler School$10,00010%
The Matthews House$10,00010%
Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence$10,00011%
Connecticut College$10,00010%
Crossroads Safehouse Inc$10,00011%
Georgetown University$9,00010%
Direct Relief$8,7211n/a
Trout Unlimited Inc$8,00010%
Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc$7,50010%
ACLU Foundation of Colorado Inc$7,50010%
Providence Athenaeum$6,00010%
Disabled Resource Services Inc$5,00011%
Yale University$5,0001n/a
Rhode Island Public Radio$5,00010%
Crossroads Rhode Island$5,00010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$5,00010%
Live-Laugh-Love-Believe Inc$5,0001n/a
Remote Area Medical$5,00010%
Narberth Community Library$5,00012%
Rhode Island Community Food Bank Association$5,00010%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc$4,00010%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$4,00010%
The Miriam Hospital Foundation$3,77010%
Oxfam-America Inc$3,72110%
Community Housing Partnership$3,72110%
Social Enterprise Greenhouse$3,00010%
Congregation of the Sons of Israel and David Dba Temple Beth-El$2,5001n/a
Whyy Inc$2,00010%
Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island$2,00010%
Masters School$1,75010%
Farmer Veteran Coalition$1,50010%
Waterfire Providence$1,00010%
Dorcas International Institute of Rhode Island Inc$1,00010%
Newport Art Museum and Art Association$1,00010%
The Rhode Island Free Clinic Inc$75010%
Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre$50010%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($59k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sand Family Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTrinity Repertory Company: $29,037 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Attic Youth Center: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCancer Research Institute Inc: $16,971 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSophia Academy: $15,850 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFort Collins Habitat for Humanity: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Food Bank for Larimer County: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLarimer County Search and Rescue Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetThe Center for Reproductive Rights Inc: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHuman Rights Campaign Inc: $11,721 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wheeler School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Matthews House: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEducational Fund to Stop Gun Violence: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetConnecticut College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrossroads Safehouse Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGeorgetown University: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrout Unlimited Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACLU Foundation of Colorado Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetProvidence Athenaeum: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDisabled Resource Services Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRhode Island Public Radio: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCrossroads Rhode Island: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRemote Area Medical: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNarberth Community Library: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetRhode Island Community Food Bank Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Union of Concerned Scientists Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Miriam Hospital Foundation: $3,770 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOxfam-America Inc: $3,721 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Housing Partnership: $3,721 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSocial Enterprise Greenhouse: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWhyy Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMasters School: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFarmer Veteran Coalition: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWaterfire Providence: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDorcas International Institute of Rhode Island Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNewport Art Museum and Art Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Rhode Island Free Clinic Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 41.

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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.

The Sand FoundationDE39× affinity16 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Sand Family Fund?

Find your warmest path to Sand Family Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Sand Family Fund

How much does Sand Family Fund give?
Sand Family Fund reported 61 grants totaling $388,983 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Sand Family Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Education (17%), Arts & Culture (15%), Civil Rights (13%).
Who are Sand Family Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: Trinity Repertory Company ($29k), The Attic Youth Center ($20k), Cancer Research Institute Inc ($17k).
Does Sand Family Fund 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 Sand Family Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sand Foundation, United Way of Rhode Island Inc, The Rhode Island Community Foundation.
Where is Sand Family Fund based?
Sand Family Fund is based in PA.

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 55 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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