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Sandy Oaks Foundation Douglas W Caves

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
42%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$258
Largest grant, FY2024
$650
Organizations funded a year
6 to 31
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$3.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 42% of the organizations Sandy Oaks Foundation Douglas W Caves funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentInternationalCivil RightsHealthCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$2k60%
FY202312$38k42%
FY20227$2k71%
FY202111$29k73%
FY20206$11k67%
FY201915$4k47%
FY201818$17k61%
FY201731$832kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$755kEducation$390kArts & Culture$285kEnvironment$100kReligion$44kInternational$30kCivil Rights$10kPublic Benefit$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($170k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sandy Oaks Foundation Douglas W Caves supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Wisconsin Foundation: $322,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Players Theatre of Wisconsin Inc: $220,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetWisconsin Public Radio Association Inc: $62,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCloud Forest School Foundation: $35,122 over 3y, 17% of budgetThe Carter Center Inc: $28,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDriftless Area Land Conservancy Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPorchlight Inc: $5,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Wisconsin Bird Alliance Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWisconsin Democracy Campaign Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetOperation Fresh Start Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMilwaukee Art Museum Inc: $1,225 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetClean Lakes Alliance Inc: $1,050 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Shares of Wisconsin Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWave Educational Fund Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Fund of Iowa County Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe River Alliance of Wisconsin Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PRAIRIE ENTHUSIASTs INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Art Institute of Chicago: $390 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGathering Waters Inc: $380 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMadison Museum of Contemporary Art Inc: $290 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildfund International USA: $282 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLiteracy Network Inc: $258 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Canyon Conservancy: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYellowstone Forever: $170 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Road Home Dane County Inc: $128 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKMS Coyote Band Boosters Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFor Love of Water: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMadison Reading Project Inc: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity of Lakes Waldorf School: $55 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChurch World Service Inc: $51 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI39.7× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Lau & Bea Christensen Charitable Foundat · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Trustage Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Schlecht Family Foundation Inc · The Roots and Wings 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.

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About Sandy Oaks Foundation Douglas W Caves

How much does Sandy Oaks Foundation Douglas W Caves give?
Sandy Oaks Foundation Douglas W Caves reported 5 grants totaling $1,783 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Sandy Oaks Foundation Douglas W Caves fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (46%), Education (24%), Arts & Culture (17%).
Who are Sandy Oaks Foundation Douglas W Caves's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Wisconsin Foundation ($323k), American Players Theatre of Wisconsin Inc ($220k), Wisconsin Public Radio Association Inc ($62k).
Does Sandy Oaks Foundation Douglas W Caves fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sandy Oaks Foundation Douglas W Caves accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sandy Oaks Foundation Douglas W Caves?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc, Madison Community Foundation.
Where is Sandy Oaks Foundation Douglas W Caves based?
Sandy Oaks Foundation Douglas W Caves is based in WI.

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 78 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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