Massachusetts · 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.
- $32k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 37
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Sands Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $303 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 | 35 | $32k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $14k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $48k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $32k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $51k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $38k | 76% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $103k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $105k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Hermann Foundation | $65,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Temple Beth Shalom | $35,122 | 5 | n/a |
| West End House Inc | $29,189 | 8 | 0% |
| Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Hebrew Senior Life Inc | $20,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Edward Foundation | $14,745 | 5 | 0% |
| The Julie Fund Inc | $14,414 | 7 | 1% |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth Inc | $6,050 | 3 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $3,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Home for Little Wanderers Inc | $2,450 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($196k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sands Family Foundation 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Sands Family Foundation
- How much does Sands Family Foundation give?
- Sands Family Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $32,142 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sands Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (47%), Religion (11%), Philanthropy (8%).
- Who are Sands Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Memorial Hermann Foundation ($65k), Temple Beth Shalom ($35k), West End House Inc ($29k).
- Does Sands Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sands Family Foundation 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 Sands Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
- Where is Sands Family Foundation based?
- Sands Family Foundation is based in MA.
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