· Public charity
Sands Family Supporting Foundation Inc
To support the charitable efforts of rochester area community foundation.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $67k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $483k
- $250k+2 grants · $4.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION | $3,297,139 |
| SKIDMORE COLLEGE | $1,073,275 |
| ROCHESTER COMMUNITY SQUASH INC | $200,000 |
| MEASURES OF JUSTICE INSTITUTE | $183,333 |
| NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER | $100,000 |
| STEPHEN GAYNOR SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| THE BUSHWICK STARR | $16,667 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL UPSTATE NEW YORK INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $12.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ESEDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $18M · revenue +111% · 58% of their budget
YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368)2× · 2022–2024 · $13M · revenue +56% · 26% of their budget- SCSKIDMORE COLLEGE3× · 2023–2025 · $5.0M · revenue +7%
Funded once
- PUPACE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $25M
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERone grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +19%- DADeep Arts Incone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue -63% · 32% of their budget
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.
The rochester general college of health careers is dedicated to preparing adult learners with the knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary to pursue health careers, advanced education, and lifelong learning.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
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At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
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…
Rochester general health system, provides patient care, senior housing, laboratory services, and community outreach to residents and other clients in monroe county, new york and several surrounding counties.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of Greater Rochester Ny Inc and the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 26 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 EDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368) ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER COMMUNITY SQUASH INC ↗
- Who funds Measures for Justice Institute ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK STATE WINE AND CULINARY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER NY INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN GAYNOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Deep Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BUSHWICK STARR INC ↗
- Who funds CANANDAIGUA EMERGENCY SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL UPSTATE NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds InterVol Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTISANWORKS AND EVENTS INC ↗
- Who funds PACE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Isaiah House Inc ↗
- Who funds FINGER LAKES OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds PIONEER WORKS ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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: 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
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 Supporting Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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