California · Private foundation
Sand Hill Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $11M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 99
- Grants FY2024
- 80
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $5,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 78 to 96
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $93M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Sand Hill Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $635k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 77 | $9.9M | 12% |
| FY2023 | 80 | $5.3M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 78 | $4.9M | 18% |
| FY2021 | 86 | $4.8M | 36% |
| FY2020 | 96 | $4.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health | $5,813,500 | 5 | 4% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $2,850,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Children's Health Council Inc | $2,008,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Pie Ranch | $1,175,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Friends for Youth Inc | $1,031,000 | 5 | 27% |
| Lifemoves | $895,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Mill Creek Metroparks Foundation | $650,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Peninsula Open Space Trust | $550,000 | 4 | 1% |
| The Peninsula Bridge Program | $457,500 | 5 | 4% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula | $412,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 158 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sand Hill Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 151 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Atkinson Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The San Francisco Foundation · The Grove Foundation · Sunlight Giving
How this is measured
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About Sand Hill Foundation
- How much does Sand Hill Foundation give?
- Sand Hill Foundation reported 99 grants totaling $10,925,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 78 and 96 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Sand Hill Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (32%), Environment (19%), Education (15%).
- Who are Sand Hill Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health ($5.8M), Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($2.9M), Children's Health Council Inc ($2.0M).
- Does Sand Hill Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sand Hill Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sand Hill Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Atkinson Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The Sobrato Family Foundation.
- Where is Sand Hill Foundation based?
- Sand Hill Foundation is based in CA.
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