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Sands Family Supporting Foundation Inc

To support the charitable efforts of rochester area community foundation.

$4.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$25MEducation$23MHuman Services$13MRecreation & Sports$455kCrime & Legal$367kHealth$310kFood & Nutrition$200kPhilanthropy$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $67k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $483k
  • $250k+2 grants · $4.4M
$183,333
Median grant
1
States reached
$110M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ISAIAH HOUSE INC: $10k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $12.0M → 14%YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $500k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$37M · 10 repeat orgs$26M to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
15

Total granted

$37M
$26M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+10%

Still filing today

100%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesCivil RightsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • ES
    EDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $18M · revenue +111% · 58% of their budget
  • YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368)
    2× · 2022–2024 · $13M · revenue +56% · 26% of their budget
  • SC
    SKIDMORE COLLEGE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $5.0M · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • PU
    PACE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $25M
  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +19%
  • DA
    Deep Arts Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue -63% · 32% of their budget
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.

1
Rochester General College of Health Careers

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.

Education
2
New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education
3
Randolph College Inc

See detailed description of organization's primary mission provided on schedule o

Education
4
Roger Williams University

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…

Education
5
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
University of New Haven

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…

Education
9
Sarah Lawrence College

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…

Education
10
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
11
Rochester General Health System

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.

Health
12
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of Greater Rochester Ny Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 26 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
13/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PACE UNIVERSITY: $25,000,000 · OtherPACE UNIVERSITY+5 more: $247,000 · OtherEDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION INC: $17,936,372 · EducationEDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION INCSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $5,045,000 · EducationSKIDMORE COLLEGE+6 more: $785,000 · EducationYMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368): $12,500,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF GREATER ROCHES…+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesROCHESTER COMMUNITY SQUASH INC: $400,000 · Recreation & SportsHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsMeasures for Justice Institute: $366,666 · Civil RightsTHE NEW YORK STATE WINE AND CULINARY CENTER INC: $200,000 · Food & NutritionDeep Arts Inc: $60,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BUSHWICK STARR INC: $50,001 · Arts & CultureInterVol Inc: $30,000 · Arts & CultureARTISANWORKS AND EVENTS INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureFINGER LAKES OPERA INC: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePIONEER WORKS ART FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$25,247,000Education$23,766,372Human Services$12,510,000Recreation & Sports$425,000Civil Rights$366,666Food & Nutrition$200,000Arts & Culture$185,001

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION INC: $17,936,372 over 7y, 58% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368): $12,500,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $5,045,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMeasures for Justice Institute: $366,666 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetNew York University: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW YORK STATE WINE AND CULINARY CENTER INC: $200,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER NY INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSTEPHEN GAYNOR SCHOOL: $120,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDeep Arts Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetTHE BUSHWICK STARR INC: $50,001 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCANANDAIGUA EMERGENCY SQUAD INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE HARLEY SCHOOL: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL UPSTATE NEW YORK INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInterVol Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetARTISANWORKS AND EVENTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPACE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIsaiah House Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFINGER LAKES OPERA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPIONEER WORKS ART FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Rochester Area Commun…The Sands Family Foun…Max and Marian Farash…Rochester Area Commun…Paychex Charitable Fo…Daisy Marquis Jones F…United Way of Greater…CornellWeinstein Fami…Finger Lakes Area Com…Esl Charitable Founda…Bright Funds Foundati…Summers Foundation Inc
Rochester Area Community FoundationNY28.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Sands Family Supporting Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sands Family Supporting Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Sands Family Supporting Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Sands Family Supporting Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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