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Sanford and Doris Slavin Foundation Inc

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$127k
Granted FY2021
8
Grants FY2021
3
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.

Human Services$184kHousing & Shelter$157kArts & Culture$64kEducation$63kHealth$43kYouth Development$35kPhilanthropy$31kCivil Rights$17kOther$0
02FY2021 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k5 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MONTGOMERY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC (MHP)$65,000
CENTER FOR ADOPTION SUPPORT & EDUCATION (CASE)$40,000
MONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$10,000
CARING MATTERS$5,000
FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY MONTGOMERY COUNTY$2,500
DURHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY$2,000
WENDT CENTER FOR LOSS AND HEALING$1,500
NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $146k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOSPICE CARING INC: $10k → 8%GATHER: $3k → 5%CARING MATTERS: $7k → 8%CARING MATTERS: $5k → 8%OYSTER RIVER WOMENADE: $5k → 9%HOSPICE CARING INC: $3k → 8%WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $4k → 14%OYSTER RIVER WOMENADE: $2k → 9%CARING MATTERS: $3k → 8%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $3k → 14%BENDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $17k → 8%BENDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $12k → 8%ASIAN AMERICAN LEAD: $1k → 14%BENDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $10k → 8%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $1k → 14%OYSTER RIVER WOMENADE: $1k → 9%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $7k → 8%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $1k → 14%MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $5k → 8%MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $5k → 8%MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $5k → 8%COMMUNITY BRIDGES: $10k → 8%COMMUNITY BRIDGES: $10k → 8%COMMUNITY BRIDGES: $10k → 8%COMMUNITY BRIDGES: $3k → 8%NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $5k → 8%NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 21% of Sanford and Doris Slavin Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 74% of the giving stays in MD; read by stated purpose it is 54% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Sanford and Doris Slavin Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$519k · 32 repeat orgs$177k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2021, 25 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
44

Total granted

$519k
$112k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+39%

Still filing today

75%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterHealthCrime & LegalOther

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

  • MH
    MONTGOMERY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $70k · revenue +150%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR ADOPTION SUPPORT AND EDUCATION INC
    2× · 2017–2021 · $59k · revenue +116%
  • BJ
    BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON
    4× · 2017–2020 · $45k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • HF
    HARTLEY FILM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • LA
    Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -32%
  • TA
    Transgender American Veterans Association
    one grant, 2018 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
Wonders Early Learning Extended Day

To create and advance high quality, diverse educational communities that teach children the foundations of life-long learning and social responsibility.

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3
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit
4
Center Stage Associates Inc

See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…

Arts & Culture
5
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture
6
Maryland Patient Safety Center Inc

To develop and implement strategies to improve the safety of patient care in maryland. mpsc unites stakeholders to champion patient safety, eliminate preventable harm, and accelerate improvements in safety quality across healthcare.

Health
7
Washington Performing Arts Society

Washington performing arts champions the arts as a unifying force. through collaborations with artists, educators, community leaders, and institutional partners, we bring wide-ranging artistic programs to stages, schools, and neighborhoods…

Arts & Culture
8
Ingenuity Prep

Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.

Education
9
Leadingage Inc

The mission of leadingage is to be the trusted voice for aging. our 6,000+ members and partners include nonprofit organizations representing the entire field of aging services, 38 state associations, hundreds of businesses, consumer…

Housing & Shelter
10
Womens Foreign Policy Group Inc

Founded in 1995 wfpg works to expand the foreign policy dialogue across policital divides and generations and to support women at every stake of their careers. as champions of womens leadership we are proud of our role in expanding the…

International
11
Martha's Table Inc

Martha's table works to support stronger children, stronger families, and stronger communities by increasing access to quality education programs, healthy food, and family supports.

Food & Nutrition
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Victims Rights Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr17%38%20–35yr14%34%35–55yr14%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr17%40%20–35yr14%39%35–55yr14%15%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/53
the rest of the field
13%
2,637/20,510

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 78 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
43/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MONTGOMERY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC (MHP) — $65,000 · OtherMONTGOMERY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC (MHP)Individual grant recipient — $51,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF MENTAL HEALTH - MONTGOMERY COUNTY (NAMI) — $15,300 · OtherBCC YMCA ROTARY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherGLEN ECHO PARK PARTNERSHIP FOR ARTS AND CULTURE INC — $13,550 · Other+42 more — $156,083 · Other+42 moreBENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON — $44,874 · Human ServicesBENDER JCC OF GREATER W…Community Bridges Inc — $32,500 · Human ServicesCommunity Bridges IncCARINGMATTERS INC — $27,500 · Human ServicesCARINGMATTERS INCTHE MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $14,375 · Human ServicesTHE MONTGOMERY COUNTY C…OYSTER RIVER WOMENADE — $8,000 · Human ServicesOYSTER RIVER WOMENADENATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — $6,000 · Human Services+4 more — $12,675 · Human Services+4 moreMONTGOMERY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC — $70,000 · Housing & ShelterMONTGOMERY H…REBUILDING TOGETHER MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterREBUILDING T…+1 more — $500 · Housing & ShelterCENTER FOR ADOPTION SUPPORT AND EDUCATION INC — $58,608 · HealthCENTER FOR…MCGREGOR MEMORIAL AMBULANCE INC D/B/A DURHAM AMBULANCE CORPS — $5,500 · HealthMCGREGOR M…+1 more — $1,000 · HealthMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $22,500 · EducationGENERATION HOPE — $14,750 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Education+2 more — $2,000 · EducationTHE THEATRE LAB INC — $13,950 · Arts & CultureLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum — $10,000 · Arts & CultureIMAGINATION STAGE INC — $3,600 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $1,800 · Arts & CultureADVENTURE THEATRE INC — $1,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $13,200 · PhilanthropyWASHINGTON REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRANTMAKERS — $9,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARYLAND INC — $4,000 · Philanthropy
Other$315,933Human Services$145,924Housing & Shelter$75,500Health$65,108Education$49,250Arts & Culture$31,850Philanthropy$26,200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMONTGOMERY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC — $70,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR ADOPTION SUPPORT AND EDUCATION INC — $58,608 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON — $44,874 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Bridges Inc — $32,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCARINGMATTERS INC — $27,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $22,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGENERATION HOPE — $14,750 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $14,375 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE THEATRE LAB INC — $13,950 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGLEN ECHO PARK PARTNERSHIP FOR ARTS AND CULTURE INC — $13,550 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $13,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUBILEE FOUNDATION INC — $9,635 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWASHINGTON REGIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GRANTMAKERS — $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc — $7,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER — $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM WENDT CENTER FOR LOSS AND HEALING — $6,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMCGREGOR MEMORIAL AMBULANCE INC D/B/A DURHAM AMBULANCE CORPS — $5,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetART ENABLES — $5,300 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $5,100 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINTERFAITH WORKS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIona Senior Services — $4,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — $4,375 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMANNA FOOD CENTER INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARYLAND INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIMAGINATION STAGE INC — $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGather — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetN STREET VILLAGE INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUNFLOWER BAKERY INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMontgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacy — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADVENTURE THEATRE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAsian American LEAD — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVictims Rights Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTHE ELLINGTON FUND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPIRIT CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE HIGH TEA SOCIETY — $500 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetSTORY TAPESTRIES INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriendship Place — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN WHO CARE MINISTRIES — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Morris and Gwendo…Greater Washington Co…Clark-Winchcole Found…William S Abell Found…Nora Roberts Foundati…United Way of the Nat…Healthcare Initiative…Philip L Graham Fund …Adventist Healthcare …Spm Foundation IncEugene & Agnes E Meye…Posner-Wallace Founda…
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC49.6× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Healthcare Initiative Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Adventist Healthcare Inc · Spm Foundation Inc · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Posner-Wallace 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 Sanford and Doris Slavin Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Center for Adoption Support and Education Inc — 51% of income from government
  • The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Story Tapestries Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Imagination Stage Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Round House Theatre Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Interfaith Works — 4% of income from government
  • National Center for Children and Families — 2% of income from government
  • Adventure Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Bender Jcc of Greater Washington — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 78 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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