· Public charity
Sandy Hook Promise Foundation
To educate and empower youth and adults to prevent violence in schools, homes, and communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $307,962 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $556,819 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $248,857 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $273k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| NEWTOWN ACTION ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC | $7,500 |
| CHILDREN & SCREENS INSTITUTE OF DIGITAL MEDIA & CHILD DEVELOPMENT | $7,500 |
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 (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 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k 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
- DIDALLAS ISD2× · 2024–2025 · $169k
- MUMOTHERS UNITED AGAINST VIOLENCE2× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +81%
- JHJareds Heart of Success Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $20k
Funded once
- CICommunities in Schools of Atlanta Incgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +27%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +44%
- PDPENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2024 · $15k
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.
To provide a platform for citizens of every walk of life to learn the important principles that underline nonviolent advocacy.
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…
The conflict center equips people with practical skills to navigate, transform and embrace everyday conflict.
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…
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…
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…
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.
Educating to end the cycle of domestic violence and save lives by providing violence intervention and prevention programs.
The global summit is forging solutions to prevent all forms of hate-fueled violence.
Starr commonwealth's mission is to lead with courage to create positive experiences so that all children, families, and communities flourish.
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.
Provide youth and families, impacted by violence, tools to launch sustainable careers, avert incarceration, & optimize talent so that historically marginalized communities can make a social impact that improves life for our fellow global…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is More Than Words Inc and 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.
13 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. 13 of the 22 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 TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS UNITED AGAINST VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds Jareds Heart of Success Inc ↗
- Who funds NEWTOWN ACTION ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRARON CENTER ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK TO THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds OPTIMISM PREVENTIVE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHANGE THE REF INC ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AND SCREENS-INSTITUTE OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT 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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Sandy Hook Promise Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mothers United Against Violence — 100% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
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.