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· Public charity

Sandy Hook Promise Foundation

To educate and empower youth and adults to prevent violence in schools, homes, and communities.

$557k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$413kCivil Rights$48kYouth Development$48kHealth$20kCrime & Legal$15kRecreation & Sports$15kHuman Services$10kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $307,962, the rows itemized in this filing. The $556,819 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $248,857 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $273k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROJECT RESEARCH CENTER$150,000
DALLAS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT$122,962
THE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA$10,000
MOTHERS AGAINST VIOLENCE$10,000
CHILDREN & SCREENS INSTITUTE OF DIGITAL MEDIA & CHILD DEVELOPMENT$7,500
NEWTOWN ACTION ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC$7,500
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 (FY23–24, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TRARON CENTER: $10k → 14%COMMUNITIESIN SCHOOLS OF ATLANTA INC: $50k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$224k · 4 repeat orgs$362k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
15

Total granted

$224k
$195k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+28%

Still filing today

75%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyEducationCivil RightsArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • DI
    DALLAS ISD
    2× · 2024–2025 · $169k
  • MU
    MOTHERS UNITED AGAINST VIOLENCE
    2× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +81%
  • JH
    Jareds Heart of Success Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k

Funded once

  • CI
    Communities in Schools of Atlanta Incgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +27%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +44%
  • PD
    PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
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
Children of Homicide Victims

To provide trauma informed support, advocacy, education, and healing services for children, youth, and families impacted by homicide, promoting emotional wellness, resilience, and long term stability.

Human Services
2
Joseph and Evelyn Lowery Institute Justice and Human Rights Inc

To provide a platform for citizens of every walk of life to learn the important principles that underline nonviolent advocacy.

International
3
Corporate Alliance for Drug Education

Organization's mission: the mission of cadekids is to promote children's potential for growth through comprehensive, school-based and community-based youth development and support programs that are begun at an early age and are designed to…

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4
Youth Alive

Ya provides assistance & education on preventing violence to youth, families and to the public, including schools, hospitals & other organizations,and trains youth to improve their own lives & their community. it also supports victims of…

Unclassified
5
The District of Columbia Children's Advocacy Center

Safe shores provides survivor-centered intervention, hope and healing for children and families affected by abuse, trauma and violence in the district of columbia, and works to prevent and end child abuse and neglect through promising…

Crime & Legal
6
The Conflict Center

The conflict center equips people with practical skills to navigate, transform and embrace everyday conflict.

Crime & Legal
7
Life Pieces to Masterpieces

Life pieces to masterpieces (lptm) is dedicated to the creative, academic, social-emotional, physical, and citizenship development of black boys and young men living in washington d.c.'s underserved 7th and 8th wards. founded in 1996, lptm…

Arts & Culture
8
Communities in Schools of Jacksonville Inc

To surround students at risk of dropping out with caring adults embedded in schools who provide a community of support with safe places to learn and grow, a focus on graduation to ensure successful futures with a marketable skills, and…

Education
9
Mothers for Justice and Equality Inc

To end neighborhood violence by providing education and engagement services to individuals who have been impacted by violence and are at-risk of becoming a victim or perpetrator of violence.

Community Improvement
10
The Joe Torre Safe At Home Foundation

Educating to end the cycle of domestic violence and save lives by providing violence intervention and prevention programs.

Human Services
11
Communities in Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc

The mission of Communities In Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
12
Multicultural Career Intern Program

The mission of mcip and its public school affiliate, chec, is to strive to become a model professional learning community that respects and responds to the diverse needs of our underserved students by preparing them for the acasemic rigors…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is More Than Words Inc; the most unlike its peers is Newtown Action Alliance Foundation. 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

13 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. 13 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DALLAS ISD: $168,637 · OtherDALLAS ISDPENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $14,541 · OtherMORE THAN WORDS INC: $10,000 · OtherASW FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherRENOUNCE DENOUNCE GANG INTERVENTION: $10,000 · OtherNO WEAPON 1LIFE EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherCST PARTNERS: $10,000 · OtherNO WEAPON ONE LIFE: $10,000 · OtherMAN LAWS 101 ACADEMY: $10,000 · OtherOPTIMISM PREVENTIVE SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Other+2 more: $12,500 · OtherTRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $150,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSI…Jareds Heart of Success Inc: $20,000 · EducationJareds Heart of Success IncCommunities in Schools of Atlanta Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesCommunities…THE TRARON CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE TRARON …MOTHERS UNITED AGAINST VIOLENCE: $20,000 · Civil RightsCHANGE THE REF INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsNEWTOWN ACTION ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA: $10,000 · PhilanthropySPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsROCK TO THE FUTURE INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$275,678Education$170,000Human Services$60,000Civil Rights$30,000Philanthropy$25,000Recreation & Sports$15,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Atlanta Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMOTHERS UNITED AGAINST VIOLENCE: $20,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetJareds Heart of Success Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetNEWTOWN ACTION ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRARON CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMORE THAN WORDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHANGE THE REF INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetROCK TO THE FUTURE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPTIMISM PREVENTIVE SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 17% 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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA6.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Sandy Hook Promise Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sandy Hook Promise Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Mothers United Against Violence: 100% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 22 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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