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.

Sandpiper Fund Inc

Sandpiper Fund Inc at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

103

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$30k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$320kInternational$118kArts & Culture$113kCivil Rights$90kEducation$89kHealth$74kPublic Benefit$60kFood & Nutrition$48kOther$0

02FY2025 · 103 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k95 grants · $210k
$10k–50k8 grants · $110k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SAVE THE SOUND	$30,000
PROPUBLICA	$20,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC	$10,000
GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE	$10,000
OPEN SECRETS	$10,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL	$10,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH	$10,000
COASTX	$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE MARINE EDUCATION CENTER	$9,320
WICHANA FOUNDATION	$7,000
ALLBRITTON JOURNALISM INSTITUTE	$5,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION	$5,000
PROLITERACY WORLDWIDE	$5,000
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT	$5,000
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION	$5,000

02The need

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 (FY20–25, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.4M · 110 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

110 repeat relationships: 95 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

110

Total granted

$1.4M

$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

+35%

Still filing today

74%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationCivil RightsInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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

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SAVE THE SOUND
6× · 2020–2025 · $170k · revenue +52%
PRO PUBLICA INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +71%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +26%

Funded once

HU
HEBREW UNION COLLEGE-JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION
one grant, 2022 · $7k
CT
CROSSING THRESHOLDS INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +29%
CF
CENTER FOR CREATIVE CHANGEgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +40%

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.

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International

Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal

Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International

World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.": - count it: our work is…

International

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

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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Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International

New York League of Conservation Voters

See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…

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Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research Inc

The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Partnership to End Homelessness Inc; the most unlike its peers is Internet Archive. 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

98 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 98 of the 131 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

96/98

Grantees still filing

67/98

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Environment$386,500Other$589,998Education$106,000Arts & Culture$98,500Civil Rights$97,000International$77,000Health$69,000

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

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY20.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Sandpiper Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sandpiper Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home