· Private foundation
Sandestin Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $126k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $39,931 |
| Individual grant recipient | $23,500 |
| MAKE-A-WISH | $21,412 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WINTER GARDEN'S FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| DOG-HARMONY INC | $10,000 |
| KIMBERLY AND WILLIAM HURLEY | $9,843 |
| READ ACROSS AFRICA | $8,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| CHILDREN IN CRISIS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| WALTON COUNTY GUARDIAN AD LITEM | $1,972 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your US giving — 89% of grant dollars ($1.1M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 11% that went abroad ($141k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 11% of all-years giving ($141k)
4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Sandestin Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 69% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 63% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
36 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 13 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- DHDOG HARMONY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +21%
- ECEMERALD COAST CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC4× · 2017–2020 · $14k · revenue +41%
- FFFOOD FOR THOUGHT OUTREACH INC2× · 2017–2018 · $9k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- EOEMPLOYEES OF SANDESTIN INVESTMENTS LLCone grant, 2020 · $107k
- RIRAWHIDE INCone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -11%
- KOKIMBERLY OR WILLIAM HURLEYone grant, 2019 · $11k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We partner with families to help children with special health care needs live a great life.
We partner with families to help children with special health care needs live a great life.
The mission of the children's center utah is to provide comprehensive mental health care to enhance the emotional well-being of infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and their families. we are the only organization in utah and the largest in…
Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.
The organization empowers familities and improves children's lives through comprehensive early intervention services, education, and therapeutic services. the organization primarily offers services to children from birth to three years…
To promote the optimal health and wellbeing of children and youth with special health care needs by providing family centered, comprehensive prevention, intervention and treatment services within a medical home environment. our vision is…
A comprehensive, child-friendly facility where professionals from law enforcement, medical, child protection and therapeutic services collaborate to meet the individual needs of child victims and break the cycle of abuse.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Transforming the lives of children and families in our community with a continuum of care.
Children's rehab center is a premier pediatric outpatient center, specializing in infant therapy, physical, speech/language and occupational therapies, assistive technology services, as well as child and family counseling. serving the…
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
The center provides counseling services for the treatment and prevention of behavioral health issues and related problems to children, adolescents, and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emerald Coast Childrens Advocacy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Read Across Africa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 140 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The St Joe Community Foundation Inc · Dugas Family Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Sandestin Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.