· Private foundation
Sander Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $117k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DESC | $67,092 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| WA GOLF FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| EPIPHANY | $9,000 |
| GARFIELD | $8,469 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,099 |
| ODEA HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,500 |
| LAKESIDE | $1,090 |
| TETON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,029 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $1,000 |
| AMERICAS CHARITIES | $1,000 |
| PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER | $1,000 |
| TETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DDESC4× · 2021–2024 · $177k
- SPSeattle Police Foundation2× · 2021–2023 · $46k · revenue +33%
- EEPIPHANY3× · 2022–2024 · $24k
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +10%
- RRYTHERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $41k · revenue +45%
- SASEATTLE ACADEMYone grant, 2022 · $22k
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.
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.
Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.
The seattle public library foundation inspires the community's philanthropic support, advocacy for, and pride in the library.
To protect and strengthen the rights and conditions of working people and their families.
Seattle foundation's mission is to ignite powerful and rewarding philanthropy to make greater seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all.
Life science washington is a non-profit trade and professional association dedicated to promoting innovation and responsible growth in the life sciences and biomedical industries in the state of washington. promotion and education are…
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
We are a community of cpas and financial professionals cultivating authentic relationships, unique learning experiences, and purposeful advocacy for our future.
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
To foster a robust, equity-centered technology sector that empowers thriving communities.
To build a thriving, just and empowered pacific northwest using capital, relationships and voice.
Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 43 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Seattle Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds RYTHER ↗
- Who funds REACH MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds THE CHEHALIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EPIPHANY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds MADDIE'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE TENNIS CLUB ↗
- Who funds Maris Place ↗
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: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sander Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sander Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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