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Sandel Family Foundation Tali Sandel

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$130k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$210kEducation$205kInternational$101kArts & Culture$98kReligion$57kCivil Rights$34kFood & Nutrition$29kHuman Services$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k35 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEN GURION UNIV$20,000
CEDARS SINAI$15,000
AORN FOUNDATION$15,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVER$10,000
LAFD$6,000
JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION$6,000
LOS ANGELES EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS$5,000
US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$5,000
FRIENDS OF THE IDF$5,000
J STREET EDUCATION FUND$5,000
PARTNERS FOR PROGRESSIVE ISRAEL$3,000
COYOTE CLUB GIRLS SOCCER$2,900
AMERICANS FOR PEACE NOW$2,500
UCLA$2,500
USC MARSHALL FOUNDATION$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%JEWISH CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
TN
NC
DC
LA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$811k · 67 repeat orgs$169k to everyone else

67 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
46

Total granted

$811k
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+46%

Still filing today

58%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AF
    AORN FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +56%
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    4× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +31%
  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • JO
    JCC-FEDERATION OF SAN LUIS OBISPO
    one grant, 2021 · $13k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHAMIR
    one grant, 2020 · $12k
  • AF
    American Friends of Tel Aviv Univgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +45%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
4
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
5
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
6
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
7
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
8
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
9
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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10
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
11
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

—
12
The Contemporary Jewish Museum

The contemporary jewish museum (the cjm) makes the diversity of the jewish experience relevant for a twenty-first-century audience through innovative exhibitions and programs that educate, challenge, and inspire.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ucla Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Keshet Chaim Dance Ensemble. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

68 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 68 of the 129 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/68
Grantees still filing
45/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN ASSOCIATES OF B G UNIVER: $30,000 · OtherAMERICAN ASSOCIATES OF B G UNIVERCALABASAS HIGH SCHOOL: $21,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEN GURION UNIV: $20,000 · OtherJEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $19,200 · OtherUSC MARSHALL FOUNDATION: $17,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $16,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $15,500 · Other+82 more: $284,190 · Other+82 moreTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $38,500 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRAT…JEWISH WORLD WATCH: $27,800 · EducationJEWISH WORLD WA…AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationAMERICAN JEWISH…UCLA FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC: $15,000 · EducationAMERICANS FOR B…Harmony Project: $9,500 · EducationHarmony ProjectVanderbilt University: $6,500 · Education+2 more: $425 · EducationAORN FOUNDATION: $120,000 · PhilanthropyAORN FOUNDATI…+2 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $75,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINA…FRIENDS OF MALIBU URGENT CARE CENTER: $8,900 · HealthFRIENDS OF …Usher 1F Collaborative Inc: $8,500 · HealthUsher 1F Co…+6 more: $5,050 · HealthPARTNERS FOR PROGRESSIVE ISRAEL: $28,000 · InternationalPARTNERS F…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $20,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $13,000 · InternationalAMERICAN F…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $12,000 · InternationalMEDECINS S…American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $10,000 · InternationalAmerican F…AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $4,000 · International+3 more: $6,000 · International+3 moreThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $47,500 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $11,165 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $10,260 · Arts & CultureTHOUSAND OAKS ALLIANCE FOR THE ARTS: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $4,900 · Arts & CultureJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $46,300 · Religion
Other$423,390Education$137,725Philanthropy$122,000Health$97,450International$93,000Arts & Culture$76,825Religion$46,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAORN FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $47,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $46,300 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $38,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS FOR PROGRESSIVE ISRAEL: $28,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetJEWISH WORLD WATCH: $27,800 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $19,200 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $15,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $12,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $11,165 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES: $10,260 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHarmony Project: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $9,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $9,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF MALIBU URGENT CARE CENTER: $8,900 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetUsher 1F Collaborative Inc: $8,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $3,357 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMALIBU FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetTHOUSAND OAKS ALLIANCE FOR THE ARTS: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHOSA INC: $3,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMALIBU FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWILDAID INC: $2,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEACOLOGY: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEAL THE BAY: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetISRAFEST FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKESHET CHAIM DANCE ENSEMBLE: $2,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAND BY ME INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $1,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRaincatcher Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds AORN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS FOR PROGRESSIVE ISRAEL ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH WORLD WATCH ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
  • Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ ↗
  • Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
  • Who funds Harmony Project ↗
  • Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗
  • Who funds GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF MALIBU URGENT CARE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Usher 1F Collaborative Inc ↗

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.

Jewish Community Foun…Nevada Community Foun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…Paypal Charitable Giv…
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA16.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sandel Family Foundation Tali Sandel funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sandel Family Foundation Tali Sandel. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 129 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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