· Private foundation
Sandfort 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TUCKER'S HOUSE | $100,000 |
| BEACON COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| ST XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF BUSINESS | $50,000 |
| BENEDICTINE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| DIOCESE OF NASHVILLE - ADVANCEMENT OF CATHOLIC EDUCATION | $35,000 |
| BRIGHTSTONE | $30,000 |
| BEGIN ANEW OF MIDDLE TN | $25,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH - MISISON HONDURAS | $15,000 |
| DIOCESE OF NASHVILLE - ST MICHAEL ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| CUL2VATE | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 79% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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
- BCBEACON COLLEGE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue +14%
- UWUNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +7%
- SUSADDLE UP3× · 2021–2023 · $40k · revenue +133%
Funded once
- MTMOTHER TERESA CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $100k
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +27%
- FMFAMILY MISSIONS COMPANYone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +0%
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Benedict college is committed to providing transformative learning experiences characterized by high quality academic, co-curricular and extra-curricular programming, intentionally designed to develop superior cultural and professional…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
We educate and equip students to lead lives of impact through transformative academics in a christ-centered community.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
Dunwoody college changes lives by building opportunities for graduates to have successful careers, to develop into leaders and entrepreneurs, and to engage in "the better performance of life's duties." quote is from the last will and…
Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…
Abilitypath housing advances affordable, accessible housing projects that promote independence and inclusive communities for adults with developmental disabilities. through partnerships and innovative program designs, abilitypath housing…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc and the most unlike its peers is American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 20 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.
- Who funds BRIGHTSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds TUCKER'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BEACON COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF COLUMBIA AT MAURY COUNTY PARK ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds Benedictine University ↗
- Who funds SADDLE UP ↗
- Who funds HIGH HOPES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY MISSIONS COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds CUL2VATE ↗
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 Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dugas Family Foundation II Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Servant Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc
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 Sandfort Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Beacon College Inc — 0% of income from government
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.