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Sanford and Doris Slavin Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (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. Its 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%CARING MATTERS: $3k → 8%IONA SENIOR SERVICES: $3k → 14%OYSTER RIVER WOMENADE: $2k → 9%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
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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 21% of Sanford and Doris Slavin Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 74% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 54%.

Sanford and Doris Slavin Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +43% for those 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%
+43%

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
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

  • 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

  • LA
    Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -32%
  • HF
    HARTLEY FILM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • TA
    Transgender American Veterans Association
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 78 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
44/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH WORKS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIona Senior Services: $4,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $4,375 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARYLAND INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMANNA FOOD CENTER INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNFLOWER BAKERY INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADVENTURE THEATRE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMontgomery Coalition for Adult English Literacy: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELLINGTON FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPIRIT CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAsian American LEAD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVictims Rights Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTORY TAPESTRIES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HIGH TEA SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriendship Place: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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

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 Sanford and Doris Slavin Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sanford and Doris Slavin Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
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 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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