Connecticut · Public charity
Sandy Hook Promise Foundation
To educate and empower youth and adults to prevent violence in schools, homes, and communities.
- $557k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 90%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $308k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 10
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $36M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 90% of the organizations Sandy Hook Promise Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 94% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k 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 | 6 | $308k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $178k | 90% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $70k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $10k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $20k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dallas Isd | $168,637 | 2 | n/a |
| Trustees of the Hamline University of Minnesota | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Communities in Schools of Atlanta Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Mothers United Against Violence | $20,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Jareds Heart of Success Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Newtown Action Alliance Foundation | $15,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Special Olympics Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pennsylvania Department of Education | $14,541 | 1 | n/a |
| The Traron Center | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| More Than Words Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dallas Isd | $168,637 | 2 | n/a |
| Trustees of the Hamline University of Minnesota | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Communities in Schools of Atlanta Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Mothers United Against Violence | $20,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Jareds Heart of Success Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Newtown Action Alliance Foundation | $15,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Special Olympics Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pennsylvania Department of Education | $14,541 | 1 | n/a |
| The Traron Center | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| More Than Words Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Asw Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Change the Ref Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Rock to the Future Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Optimism Preventive Services Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 17% |
| No Weapon 1life Empowerment Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cst Partners | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Man Laws 101 Academy | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Children and Screens-Institute of Digital Media and Child Development Inc | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Los Angeles Unified School District | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($20k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sandy Hook Promise 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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Sandy Hook Promise Foundation
- How much does Sandy Hook Promise Foundation give?
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation reported 6 itemized grants totaling $307,962, out of $556,819 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Sandy Hook Promise Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (71%), Civil Rights (8%), Youth Development (8%).
- Who are Sandy Hook Promise Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Dallas Isd ($169k), Trustees of the Hamline University of Minnesota ($150k), Communities in Schools of Atlanta Inc ($50k).
- Does Sandy Hook Promise Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 90% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sandy Hook Promise Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Sandy Hook Promise Foundation based?
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation is based in CT.
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