New York · Private foundation
Sandpiper Fund Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $320k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 103
- Grants FY2025
- 97
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 79 to 97
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Sandpiper Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 102 | $320k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 97 | $272k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 94 | $221k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 96 | $239k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 88 | $189k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 79 | $182k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Save the Sound | $170,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Pro Publica Inc | $75,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Opensecrets | $40,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $36,000 | 6 | 0% |
| National Abortion Federation | $30,000 | 6 | 19% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Good Food Institute Inc | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 98 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($254k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sandpiper Fund Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Mallah Family Foundation Inc · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Gwendolen Appleyard Trust for New Rochelle Charities · Mbia Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Ibm International Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Sandpiper Fund Inc
- How much does Sandpiper Fund Inc give?
- Sandpiper Fund Inc reported 103 grants totaling $320,220 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 79 and 97 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Sandpiper Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (29%), International (11%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are Sandpiper Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Save the Sound ($170k), Pro Publica Inc ($75k), Natural Resources Defense Council Inc ($60k).
- Does Sandpiper Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sandpiper Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sandpiper Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Mallah Family Foundation Inc, S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation.
- Where is Sandpiper Fund Inc based?
- Sandpiper Fund Inc is based in NY.
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