· Private foundation
Sands Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLIAMS COLLEGE | $49,796 |
| PENFED FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE GOOD SHEPHERD CHURCH | $3,000 |
| QUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES | $1,000 |
| EMMANUAL CHURCH | $1,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY | $510 |
| TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE | $500 |
| DANA FARBER INSTITUTE | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| VERO BEACH DOG PARK | $500 |
| GARDEN CLUB OF DUBLIN | $300 |
| THE WALDEN SCHOOL | $250 |
| TENACITY | $250 |
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 (FY20–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% 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 +30% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 7 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
Williams College6× · 2020–2025 · $422k · revenue +51%- JFJOHN F KENNEDY FAMILY SERVICE CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +60%
- TMThe Monadnock Conservancy4× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- PLPETERBOUROUGH LIBRARYone grant, 2020 · $5k
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INCone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +24%- HHHOME HEALTHCARE AND HOSPICE SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
Nichols college strives to develop tomorrow's leaders through a dynamic, career-focused business education. the college transforms students into successful graduates who respond to challenges, are eager for responsibility, and assume…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
To build the university of the future with a strategy propelling us from our storied past toward an ambitious, inclusive & innovative future by preparing graduates as enlightened global citizens equipped for the challenges & opportunities…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
At dublin school we strive to awaken a curiosity for knowledge and a passion for learning. we instill the values of discipline and meaningful work that are necessary for the good of self and community. we respect the individual learning…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mending Hearts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dublin Community Foundation. 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 28 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 57 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 Williams College ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY FAMILY SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Monadnock Conservancy ↗
- Who funds MONADNOCK FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PETERBOROUGH PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds Monadnock Community Hospital ↗
- Who funds The OSS Society Inc ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORNUCOPIA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Jacksonville University ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR-SCHOLAR PROJECT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SERVICE TO SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH DOG PARK INC ↗
- Who funds POODLE AND POOCH RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds EAST END HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds QUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ST CHRISTOPHER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MENDING HEARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SCALPEL AT THE CROSS INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC ↗
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: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Eaton Family Fund Inc · Gilbert Verney Foundation · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · The Kingsbury Fund · Hoffman Family Foundation · The Memton Fund Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Sands 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- East End House Inc — 3% of income from government
- Jacksonville University — 3% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% 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.