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Sand Hill Angels Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2023
10
Grants FY2023
10
Organizations funded FY2023
90%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$2,900
Largest grant, FY2023
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 10
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
3
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 90% of the organizations Sand Hill Angels Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 85% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyEnvironmentScience & TechOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202310$30k90%
FY20228$27k75%
FY20216$34k83%
FY20207$30kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Education$32kYouth Development$22kEnvironment$11kHousing & Shelter$10kCommunity Improvement$10kFood & Nutrition$9kArts & Culture$8kHuman Services$8kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Future of Reading$17,600317%
First Graduate$13,60030%
STTE Foundation$7,75016%
Maitri$7,52510%
Wehope$6,00010%
Digital Nest Inc$5,00010%
Mission Bit$5,00010%
Kits Cubed Inc$4,50012%
Harmonious Home Inc$4,00016%
Culinary Angels$4,00012%
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All grantees of Sand Hill Angels Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Future of Reading$17,600317%
First Graduate$13,60030%
STTE Foundation$7,75016%
Maitri$7,52510%
Wehope$6,00010%
Digital Nest Inc$5,00010%
Mission Bit$5,00010%
Kits Cubed Inc$4,50012%
Harmonious Home Inc$4,00016%
Culinary Angels$4,00012%
Environmental Volunteers Inc$3,65010%
Foundation for Excellence Inc$3,35010%
Pablove Foundation Inc$3,25010%
Venture Free Foundation$3,00011%
Canopy$2,70010%
Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen$2,60010%
Insights-El Paso Science Center Inc$2,35010%
Community Initiatives$2,20010%
Nine Lives Foundation$2,20010%
Metafoundation Dba Post Carbon Institute$1,90010%
Propl$1,20010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($18k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sand Hill Angels Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFuture of Reading: $17,600 over 3y, 17% of budgetFirst Graduate: $13,600 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSTTE Foundation: $7,750 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetMaitri: $7,525 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWehope: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDigital Nest Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMission Bit: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKits Cubed Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHarmonious Home Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCulinary Angels: $4,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetEnvironmental Volunteers Inc: $3,650 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFoundation for Excellence Inc: $3,350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPablove Foundation Inc: $3,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVenture Free Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCanopy: $2,700 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLoaves & Fishes Family Kitchen: $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInsights-El Paso Science Center Inc: $2,350 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Initiatives: $2,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNine Lives Foundation: $2,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMetafoundation Dba Post Carbon Institute: $1,900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPropl: $1,200 over 1y, 0.2% 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 21.

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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA19.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Bright Funds 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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About Sand Hill Angels Charitable Foundation

How much does Sand Hill Angels Charitable Foundation give?
Sand Hill Angels Charitable Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $30,150 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Sand Hill Angels Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (26%), Youth Development (17%), Environment (9%).
Who are Sand Hill Angels Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Future of Reading ($18k), First Graduate ($14k), STTE Foundation ($8k).
Does Sand Hill Angels Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 90% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sand Hill Angels Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sand Hill Angels Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Tides Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation.
Where is Sand Hill Angels Charitable Foundation based?
Sand Hill Angels Charitable Foundation is based in CA.

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 28 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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