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Sandor 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.

$486k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.1MArts & Culture$643kHealth$167kEnvironment$125kReligion$72kPhilanthropy$70kSocial Science$60kScience & Tech$26kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $231k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $216k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$424k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MARIE SELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS INC$85,000
RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC$76,000
THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC$55,000
ASOLO THEATRE INC$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC$25,000
THE BOOK TRUCK INC$25,000
THE PAIDEIA SCHOOL INC$20,000
TEMPLE EMANU-EI$18,000
THE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED$17,000
FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC$15,000
SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC$11,000
ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC$10,000
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION$10,000
DIOCESE OF VENICE IN FLORIDA INC$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
AR
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 54 repeat orgs$352k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
38

Total granted

$1.9M
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+34%

Still filing today

70%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • University of Chicago
    2× · 2017–2018 · $381k · revenue +56%
  • TA
    THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
    6× · 2017–2024 · $189k · revenue +45%
  • TB
    THE BOOK TRUCK INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +239%

Funded once

  • TA
    The Arts Club of Chicagograduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +32%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +98%
  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museumgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +34%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
4
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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6
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

—
7
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
10
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
11
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

—
12
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago; the most unlike its peers is New Art Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 106 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
73/73
Grantees still filing
48/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Chicago: $381,149 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $189,042 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGOTHE BOOK TRUCK INC: $115,000 · EducationTHE BOOK TRUCK INCRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $86,000 · EducationRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INCWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY+7 more: $37,500 · EducationART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO SCHOOL: $171,332 · OtherART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO SCHOOLTHE OPTION INSTITUTE: $60,000 · OtherTHE OPTION INSTITUTETHE PAIDEIA SCHOOL INC: $50,000 · OtherTHE PAIDEIA SCHOOL INCGENE SISKEL FILM CENTER: $47,000 · OtherGENE SISKEL FILM CENTERUNIVERSITY OF CA BERKELEY: $32,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESSOTA FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherBulletin of the Atomic Scientists: $26,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · OtherTHE EYEBEAM ATELIER INC: $46,113 · OtherTHE EYEBEAM ATELIER INCAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $35,000 · Other+44 more: $193,955 · Other+44 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY: $44,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIEND…FLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureFLORIDA STUDIO …ASOLO THEATRE INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureASOLO THEATRE I…The Arts Club of Chicago: $25,000 · Arts & CultureThe Arts Club o…THE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHICAGO ACA…THE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $17,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JOFFREY BALLET: $15,500 · Arts & CultureTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $15,000 · Arts & CultureVictory Gardens Theater: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY: $15,000 · Arts & CultureThe Forward Association Inc: $12,500 · Arts & CultureWESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INC: $12,500 · Arts & Culture+15 more: $50,720 · Arts & Culture+15 moreEisenhower Medical Center: $100,000 · HealthSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 · HealthALPORT SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Health+2 more: $2,000 · HealthThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $85,000 · EnvironmentWINDWARD FUND: $30,000 · EnvironmentEVERGREEN CLIMATE INNOVATIONS: $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC: $55,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $25,525 · PhilanthropyNorthwestern University: $61,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $300 · Recreation & Sports
Education$888,691Other$716,900Arts & Culture$327,220Health$129,000Environment$125,000Philanthropy$80,525Recreation & Sports$61,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Chicago: $381,149 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $189,042 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOOK TRUCK INC: $115,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC: $86,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $85,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $61,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC: $55,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PAIDEIA SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EYEBEAM ATELIER INC: $46,113 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE MUSEE DORSAY: $44,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetFLORIDA STUDIO THEATRE INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASOLO THEATRE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWINDWARD FUND: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBulletin of the Atomic Scientists: $26,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $25,525 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Arts Club of Chicago: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $17,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE JOFFREY BALLET: $15,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVictory Gardens Theater: $15,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Forward Association Inc: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $10,010 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKISSICK FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEVERGREEN CLIMATE INNOVATIONS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTRIDES FOR PEACE INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetALPORT SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAGAHOZO-SHALOM YOUTH VILLAGE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAccess Living of Metropolitan Chicago: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLAWYERS FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS: $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …Gulf Coast Community …The Community Foundat…Alphawood FoundationLloyd a Fry FoundationArie and Ida Crown Me…The Bessemer Giving F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Aaron Family Foun…Deline Charitable Fou…Metzner Family Founda…
The Chicago Community TrustIL22.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Alphawood Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Aaron Family Foundation · Deline Charitable Foundation Inc · Metzner Family Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sandor Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sandor Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Bay Cove Human Services Inc: 70% of income from government
  • All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Florida Studio Theatre Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Sandor Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sandor Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 106 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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