New York · Public charity
Sands Family Supporting Foundation Inc
To support the charitable efforts of rochester area community foundation.
- $4.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $183,333
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,297,139
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 14
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $110M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Sands Family Supporting Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 84% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25M 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 | 8 | $4.9M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $30M | 30% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $6.5M | 86% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $16M | 90% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $1.0M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $362k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $3.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pace University | $25,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Education Success Foundation Inc | $17,936,372 | 7 | 58% |
| YMCA of Greater Rochester (4368) | $12,500,000 | 2 | 26% |
| Skidmore College | $5,045,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Rochester Community Squash Inc | $400,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Measures for Justice Institute | $366,666 | 2 | 5% |
| New York University | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Rochester | $300,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The New York State Wine and Culinary Center Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Stephen Gaynor School | $120,000 | 3 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Sands Family Supporting Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Rochester Area Community Foundation · The Sands Family Foundation Inc · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · CornellWeinstein Family Foundation · Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment · Esl Charitable Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Summers Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Sands Family Supporting Foundation Inc
- How much does Sands Family Supporting Foundation Inc give?
- Sands Family Supporting Foundation Inc reported 8 grants totaling $4,920,414 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 14 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Sands Family Supporting Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (41%), Education (37%), Human Services (20%).
- Who are Sands Family Supporting Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Pace University ($25M), Education Success Foundation Inc ($18M), YMCA of Greater Rochester (4368) ($13M).
- Does Sands Family Supporting Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sands Family Supporting Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rochester Area Community Foundation, The Sands Family Foundation Inc, Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Sands Family Supporting Foundation Inc based?
- Sands Family Supporting Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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