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SANDLER FAMILY FOUNDATION
Provides athletic and sport specific experiences to children with physical disabilities.
$66k
Granted FY2024
4
Grants
1
Communities
$8k
Largest
01What you fund
0180% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Recreation & Sports$64kHealth$26kHuman Services$16kYouth Development$8kOther$29k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
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2023
equipmentteamleaguecompetitionsathletesspecial
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 4 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$6,250
Median grant
1
States reached
$444k
Total assets
Largest grants
- DALLAS JR WHEELCHAIR MAVERICK$7,500
- YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS$6,250
- MIRACLE LEAGUE - DFW$6,250
- BUDDY UP FOR LIFE DALLAS$5,760
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
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Dallas Center Inc
To provide individualized services that positively impact the lives of 0-3 year old children with developmental disabilities/delays and their families.
Human Services
2
Connectability
ConnectAbility's mission is to empower those with life altering disabilities and their caregivers to reach their fullest potential.
Human Services
3
Colorado Springs Independence Center
We provide support & information empowering people with disabilities to remove barriers and achieve independence.
Human Services
4
Children's Cancer Fund of Dallas inc
Children's Cancer Fund champions kids in their fight against cancer through strategic investments in research and care in North Texas.
Health
5
Special Equestrians Inc
Our Vision: A community where the impossible becomes possible. Our mission: To enrich the lives of people with physical, cognitive or emotional challenges through a relationship with a horse.
Human Services
6
Dyslexia Center of Austin
At the Dyslexia Center of Austin, we provide education, services, and support for individuals with dyslexia and related learning differences, and for the community invested in empowering them to thrive.
Education
7
Ccri Inc
CCRI supports children, adults, and families touched by a disability. We inspire people to reach their full potential and we do not let a disability define who a person is. Our mission is to enhance and enrich the lives and learning of…
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8
The Center for Integrative Counseling
The Centers founding mission since 1968 has been to make quality mental health care accessible and to integrate faith and spirituality within the therapy and psychological services provided by its therapists and psychologists.
Health
9
Texas College
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
Education
10
Goodwill Industries of Dallas Inc
Goodwill Industries of Dallas, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help people with barriers to employment build skills, find jobs and reach their goals in life so that they can reach their full potential and experience…
Employment
11
Dynamic Strides Therapy Inc
Dynamic Strides Therapy is a non-profit outpatient pediatric therapy facility that offers occupational, physical and speech therapies to children with special needs. Patients receive unique treatment that combines traditional occupational,…
Health
12
Art Spark Texas
ission of Art Spark Texas is to challenge the perceptions of how people contribute by creating an arts-inspired inclusive community of individuals with diverse abilities.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dallas Friendship Circle Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for the Callier Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Recreation & Sports$63,750Other$29,307Health$26,250Human Services$16,250Youth Development$7,500
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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS - MIRACLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds BUDDY UP FOR LIFE DALLAS ↗
- Who funds MY POSSIBILITIES ↗
- Who funds EQUEST ↗
- Who funds DALLAS JR WHEELCHAIR MAVERICK ↗
- Who funds VICTORY THERAPY ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE - DFW ↗
- Who funds CALLIER CENTER FOR COMMUNICATION DISORDER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE DALLAS ↗
- Who funds HOPEKIDS ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUMMIT ↗
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.
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX22.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Jordan Spieth Family Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Moody Foundation · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax
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 organisation SANDLER 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: DALLAS JR WHEELCHAIR MAVERICK.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.7× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 203535447 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on DALLAS JR WHEELCHAIR MAVERICK, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Sandler Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Sandler Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines