· Public charity
Sandler Foundation
The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish community federation of san francisco, the peninsula, marin and sonoma counties.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 41 grants below total $65,545,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $353,625,080 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $288,080,080 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $750k
- $250k+33 grants · $65M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION | $8,000,000 |
| RESET TECH | $7,000,000 |
| PROPUBLICA | $6,000,000 |
| CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES | $4,000,000 |
| CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS | $4,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION | $3,000,000 |
| DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION | $3,000,000 |
| ALL VOTING IS LOCAL | $3,000,000 |
| GLOBAL IMPACT | $2,500,000 |
| CENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE LENDING | $2,000,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $2,000,000 |
| OCEANA INC | $2,000,000 |
| CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER | $1,500,000 |
| FUND FOR A BETTER FUTURE INC | $1,500,000 |
| STATES UNITED DEMOCRACY CENTER LLC | $1,500,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $500k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.0M 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
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities9× · 2017–2025 · $36M · revenue +52%- LPLearning Policy Institute9× · 2017–2025 · $29M · revenue +2% · 35% of their budget
EARTHJUSTICE9× · 2017–2025 · $27M · revenue +82%
Funded once
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3.7M · revenue +102%
ONE ARIZONAone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -13%- CFCLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue +250%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Community Change and the most unlike its peers is Luminate Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
107 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. 107 of the 117 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 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds Learning Policy Institute ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Responsible Lending ↗
- Who funds Luminate Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON CENTER FOR EQUITABLE GROWTH INC ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Vote Solar ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds RESET TECH ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE GERMAN MARSHALL FUND OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS INC ↗
- Who funds ALL VOTING IS LOCAL ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR A BETTER FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CIVIL RIGHTS CORPS ↗
- Who funds RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ECONOMIC LIBERTIES PROJECT ↗
- Who funds INDIVISIBLE CIVICS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Global Impact ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN OVERSIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY ↗
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 Ford Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Freedom Together Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · Hopewell Fund · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund 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 Sandler 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.
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Florida Institute of Technology Inc — 5% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% 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.