Maryland · Private foundation
Sanders 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.
- $419k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 71
- Grants FY2025
- 75
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $26,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 48 to 75
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Sanders Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 69 | $405k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 75 | $341k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 69 | $332k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 65 | $307k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 56 | $256k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 55 | $234k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 50 | $202k | 12% |
| FY2018 | 48 | $183k | 31% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manna Food Center Inc | $183,000 | 9 | 0% |
| A Wider Circle Inc | $91,160 | 9 | 0% |
| Washington Jesuit Academy | $67,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Bethesda Cares Inc | $64,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Project Zawadi Inc | $63,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $54,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Truenorth Community Services | $50,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Children's Inn at Nih Inc | $50,400 | 9 | 0% |
| Lungevity Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Inova Health System Foundation | $49,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 73 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($701k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sanders Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · American Gift Fund · Nora Roberts Foundation · Adventist Healthcare Inc · Spm Foundation Inc · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Sanders Foundation
- How much does Sanders Foundation give?
- Sanders Foundation reported 71 grants totaling $419,442 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 75 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sanders Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (21%), Education (14%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Sanders Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Manna Food Center Inc ($183k), A Wider Circle Inc ($91k), Washington Jesuit Academy ($68k).
- Does Sanders Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sanders Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sanders Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, United Way of the National Capital Area, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.
- Where is Sanders Foundation based?
- Sanders Foundation is based in MD.
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