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Sanderson 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.

$100k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2022
0%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2024
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 40
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$518k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations Sanderson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$100k100%
FY20221$2k0%
FY20216$18k17%
FY202017$24k12%
FY201929$76k0%
FY201823$180k17%
FY201740$122kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$326kEducation$102kHuman Services$29kPhilanthropy$10kArts & Culture$9kAnimals$9kYouth Development$7kInternational$6kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
NV
CA
CO
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 32 grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($425k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sanderson Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends of Ninos Adelante Inc: $18,750 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetVintage House Multi Purpose Senior Center: $17,700 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetPets Lifeline Inc: $6,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance: $5,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSonoma Plein Air Foundation: $4,100 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSonoma Overnight Support Inc: $4,100 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSonoma Valley Teen Services: $2,650 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSonoma Community Center: $2,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSonoma Valley Museum of Art: $2,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSeeds of Learning: $2,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc: $2,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTranscendence Theatre Company: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRedwood Gospel Missions: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBy the Bay Health: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSchell Vista Volunteer Fireman's Association: $1,200 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSonoma Valley Community Health Center: $1,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBecoming Independent: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSonoma Valley Education Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bay School: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPurpose Driven Connection DBA Pastor Ricks Daily Hope: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSonoma Valley Hospital Foundation: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSonoma League for Historic Preservation: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Sonoma County Community FoundationCA42.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sonoma County Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The Vadasz Family Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Simon Blattner Family Foundation · Women Giving as One Inc · Khr McNeely Family Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · Vera C Hendry Foundation · The John & Sandra Leland Foundation · Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers Foundation · The Heck Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Sanderson Family Foundation

How much does Sanderson Family Foundation give?
Sanderson Family Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $100,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 40 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Sanderson Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (63%), Education (20%), Human Services (6%).
Who are Sanderson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Friends of Ninos Adelante Inc ($19k), Vintage House Multi Purpose Senior Center ($18k), Pets Lifeline Inc ($7k).
Does Sanderson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sanderson Family 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 Sanderson Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sonoma County Community Foundation, McNabb Foundation, The Vadasz Family Foundation.
Where is Sanderson Family Foundation based?
Sanderson Family Foundation is based in NV.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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