How much did SAND FAMILY FUND grant in FY2017?

SAND FAMILY FUND reported 61 grants totaling $388,983 in its FY2017 IRS filing.

Where is SAND FAMILY FUND based?

SAND FAMILY FUND is based in PA.

SAND FAMILY FUND

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

SAND FAMILY FUND

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$389k

Granted FY2017

Grants

Communities

$27k

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2017 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

Under $10k45 grants · $165k
$10k–50k16 grants · $224k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$13M

Total assets

Largest grants

TRINITY REPERTORY COMPANY$27,137
ATTIC YOUTH CENTER$20,000
CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE$16,971
LARIMER COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE$15,000
FOOD BANK FOR LARIMER COUNTY$15,000
FORT COLLINS MEALS ON WHEELS$15,000
SOPHIA ACADEMY$15,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FORT COLLINS$15,000
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS$13,000
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN$11,721
CONNECTICUT COLLEGE$10,000
FOUNDATION FOR FREEDOM FR RELIGION$10,000
EDUCATION FUND TO STOP GUN VIOLENCE$10,000
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT$10,000
THE MATTHEWS HOUSE$10,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

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.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic

Advancing health through research, education, clinical practice, and community partnerships; providing each person the best care in the right place, at the right time, every time.

Health

University of New Haven

See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.

Education

The Water Research Foundation

Advancing the science of water to improve the quality of life.

Environment

National Association of Regulatory

To serve the public interest by improving the quality and effectiveness of public utility regulation.

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Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc

We are ct's only locally owned media organization producing tv, radio, print and internet content with a mix of educational, new, public affairs, children's and entertainment programming.

Arts & Culture

The Recycling Partnership Inc

Protecting natural resources, building more sustainable communities, and ensuring that everyone who wants to recycle can recycle is at the heart of everything we do.

Environment

National Public Radio Inc

Arts & Culture

Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of (cont'd sch. o) the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit

Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless Inc

The coalition works collaboratively to create and advance lasting solutions to prevent and end homelessness in rhode island.

Housing & Shelter

Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health

Disability Rights Rhode Island

To assist rhode islanders with differing abilities in their efforts to achieve full inclusion in society and to exercise their civil and human rights through the provision of legal advocacy.

Civil Rights

Counselors of Real Estate

The counselors of real estate (cre) was established exclusively for real estate (see schedule o) advisors who provide intelligent and trusted advice for a client or employer. cre serves as an information resource for its members.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rhode Island Community Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Waterfire Providence. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/34

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,531

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.

03the grantee network

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/33

Grantees still filing

26/33

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$209,442Education$51,850Civil Rights$32,221Arts & Culture$31,037Food & Nutrition$21,500Health$21,491International$21,442

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.

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.

The Sand FoundationDE26.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 9 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 · June Rockwell Levy Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · The Poudre Sand Fund · Ira S& Anna Galkin Charitable Tr · Pobble Stone Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Joseph and Rosalyn Sinclair

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 organisation 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.

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typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NARBERTH COMMUNITY LIBRARY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 233022057 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NARBERTH COMMUNITY LIBRARY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Sand Family Fund?

Find your warmest path to Sand Family Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SAND FAMILY FUND

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Sand Family Fund?

More from the funding graph

SAND FAMILY FUND

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

33 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Sand Family Fund?

More from the funding graph