· Private foundation
Sander Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
96% of Sander Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Sander Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $99k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k8 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HELPUSADOPTORG | $25,000 |
| ST LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| GREAT CIRCLE | $20,000 |
| VARIETY-THE CHILDRENS CHARITY | $10,000 |
| KENTUCKY TORNATO RELIEF FUND | $10,000 |
| WORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HAVEN HOUSE ST LOUIS | $2,500 |
| ACCOUNTABILITY FOR LIFE | $2,500 |
| CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF | $2,500 |
| ST ANDREWS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL | $250 |
| AMERICAN PARKINSONS DISEASE ASSN | $110 |
| ST LOUIS THETA NOT FOR PROFIT CORP | $100 |
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 (FY17–22, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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.
92 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2022, 86 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DDDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER5× · 2017–2021 · $295k · revenue +2%
- LFLift for Life Gym Inc5× · 2017–2023 · $116k · revenue +52%
- MTMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS2× · 2017–2018 · $101k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- ACAUDUBON CORKSCREW SWAMP SANCTUARYone grant, 2021 · $50k
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue +53%
- WGWICKED GOOD CAUSE ORGANIZATION INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +19%
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.
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The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
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To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
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To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
How this is measured
128 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. 128 of the 194 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GREAT CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds Lift for Life Gym Inc ↗
- Who funds MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds SHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds HELPUSADOPTORG INC ↗
- Who funds LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS ARC INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREWS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGH ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds WICKED GOOD CAUSE ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds GIVABLE ↗
- Who funds FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIFE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · St Louis Community Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Pott Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Centene Foundation · Hermann Family Foundation · The Lilly Christy Busch Hermann Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sander Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sander Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation: 4% of income from government
- Sea Turtle Conservancy: 1% of income from government
- Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I: 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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