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Sandelman Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $118k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $79k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $79,010 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI - MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $25,000 |
| RAMAH DAROM | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $18,000 |
| RUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $10,000 |
| UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| DONNA KLEIN JEWISH ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $5,000 |
| ANSHEI EMUNA CONGREGATION | $5,000 |
| BINA HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS | $3,600 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $3,000 |
| NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- DKDONNA KLEIN JEWISH ACADEMY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +127%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES8× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +53%- EAEDA AND CLIFF VINER COMMUNITY SCHOLARS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2023 · $38k · revenue +111%
Funded once
- GPGreater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Associationone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +7%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
- BIBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +19%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Embrace Girls Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DONNA KLEIN JEWISH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds EDA AND CLIFF VINER COMMUNITY SCHOLARS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADOLPH & ROSE LEVIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE FULLER CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds PROPEL INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE EMBRACE GIRLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NEWS SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds RUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER PALM BEACH COUNTY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Boca West Children's Foundation Fka Boca West Community Charitable Foundation · Janower Family Private Foundation · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 organization Sandelman Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Yehudi Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 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.
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