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Sandler Center for the Performing Arts Foundation

The sandler center foundation's mission is the educate, enrich and inspire the community.

$7k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2023.

Arts & Culture$112k
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,030
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL$5,833
NEPTUNE FESTIVAL$1,030
VIRGINIA MUSICAL THEATRE$87
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SPECTRA VENUE MANAGEMENT: $50k → 22%NEPTUNE FESTIVAL: $1k → 10%VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL: $25k → 19%VIRGINIA MUSICAL THEATRE: $87 → 10%VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10k → 19%SYMPHONICITY: $8k → 10%THE GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION: $7k → 19%ZEIDERS AMERICAN DREAM THEATHER: $5k → 10%VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL: $6k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 8 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSYMPHONICITY-THE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF VIRGINIA BEACH — $8,000 · OtherSYMPHONICITY-THE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF VIRGINIA BEACHTHE GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION — $7,000 · OtherTHE GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATIONTHE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC — $30,833 · Arts & CultureTHE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INCVIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $10,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAZEIDERS AMERICAN DREAM THEATER — $5,000 · Arts & CultureZEIDERS AMERICAN DREAM THEATER+1 more — $87 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA BEACH EVENTS UNLIMITED INC — $1,030 · Recreation & Sports
Other$65,000Arts & Culture$45,920Recreation & Sports$1,030

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL INC — $30,833 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSYMPHONICITY-THE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF VIRGINIA BEACH — $8,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetVIRGINIA BEACH EVENTS UNLIMITED INC — $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA MUSICAL THEATRE INC — $87 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Helen G Gifford F…Business Consortium f…D B Ames Charitable F…The Clark Nexsen Foun…Hampton Roads Communi…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Helen G Gifford FoundationVA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Helen G Gifford Foundation · Business Consortium for Arts Support · D B Ames Charitable Fdn - Tes Tr · The Clark Nexsen Foundation Inc · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Sandler Center for the Performing Arts 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.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $4k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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