· Private foundation
Sanders 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k8 grants · $156k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $400,000 |
| UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK | $50,000 |
| TURTLE ATHLETIC FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ISLAND HARVEST | $30,000 |
| BOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION | $26,250 |
| THE BEST IS AHEAD FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $25,000 |
| ISLAND HARVEST | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY | $10,000 |
| ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $365k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +34% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BEBOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $251k · revenue +59%
- IHISLAND HARVEST LTD5× · 2020–2024 · $245k · revenue +34%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM2× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - ATHLETICSone grant, 2022 · $400k
THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INCone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue -8%
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVEone grant, 2021 · $30k · 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.
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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Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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To promote dietary changes to build a healthy, equitable, humane, and environmentally-sustainable food system.
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Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 24 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 BOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HARVEST LTD ↗
- Who funds ENCOURAGE KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds TURTLE ATHLETIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds BEST IS AHEAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN DESERVE A CHANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sanders Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sanders Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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