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Sandestin Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$179k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2024
27
Organizations funded FY2023
56%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$39,931
Organizations funded a year
19 to 34
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$1.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 56% of the organizations Sandestin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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 arriving26$179k50%
FY202327$200k56%
FY202219$124k47%
FY202119$117k74%
FY202022$229k73%
FY201931$151k71%
FY201834$161k65%
FY201729$127kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$387kHealth$287kHuman Services$242kEmployment$107kFood & Nutrition$62kYouth Development$40kAnimals$40kReligion$32kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MN
IL
WI
NY
IA
OH
CO
NE
VA
NM
LA
MS
AL
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.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Read Across Africa$93,7507n/a
Catholic Charities$63,3474n/a
Children in Crisis Inc$40,00051%
Dog Harmony Inc$40,000412%
Rawhide Inc$20,00010%
Emerald Coast Childrens Advocacy Center Inc$13,88640%
National Down Syndrome Society$10,0001n/a
Food for Thought Outreach Inc$9,49621%
First Baptist Church of Winter Park$7,5001n/a
Destiny Worship Center Inc$7,2501n/a
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All grantees of Sandestin Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Read Across Africa$93,7507n/a
Catholic Charities$63,3474n/a
Children in Crisis Inc$40,00051%
Dog Harmony Inc$40,000412%
Rawhide Inc$20,00010%
Emerald Coast Childrens Advocacy Center Inc$13,88640%
National Down Syndrome Society$10,0001n/a
Food for Thought Outreach Inc$9,49621%
First Baptist Church of Winter Park$7,5001n/a
Destiny Worship Center Inc$7,2501n/a
South Walton Academy Inc$5,2002n/a
The Richardson Center for Global Engagement$5,00010%
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc$3,61910%
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago$2,99520%
Equestrian Connection NFP$2,79510%
Ocso Sheriff's Star Charities Inc$2,50013%
Bay District Schools$2,3821n/a
Hakima Ministries Inc$2,00010%
Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare$1,98310%
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home$50010%
Emerald Coast Community Cares Foundation Inc$5001n/a
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$38510%

Plus 118 recipients with no EIN on record ($955k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren in Crisis Inc: $40,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetDog Harmony Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetRawhide Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEmerald Coast Childrens Advocacy Center Inc: $13,886 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFood for Thought Outreach Inc: $9,496 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe Richardson Center for Global Engagement: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc: $3,619 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $2,995 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEquestrian Connection NFP: $2,795 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOcso Sheriff's Star Charities Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetHakima Ministries Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGillette Children's Specialty Healthcare: $1,983 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $385 over 1y, 0.0% 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 14.

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.

The St Joe Community Foundation IncFL15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Sandestin Foundation

How much does Sandestin Foundation give?
Sandestin Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $179,451 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Sandestin Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (30%), Health (22%), Human Services (19%).
Who are Sandestin Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Read Across Africa ($94k), Catholic Charities ($63k), Children in Crisis Inc ($40k).
Does Sandestin Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sandestin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sandestin Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The St Joe Community Foundation Inc, Dugas Family Foundation Inc, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund.
Where is Sandestin Foundation based?
Sandestin Foundation is based in FL.

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 140 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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