· Private foundation
Sant Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FORESTS | $200,000 |
| REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INVESTORS ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| FEDERAL CITY COUNCIL | $4,200 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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.
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 +58% since the first grant, against +50% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
American Forests6× · 2018–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +495%- DODISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM2× · 2017–2018 · $500k · revenue +114%
- HIHudson Institute Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $200k · revenue +242%
Funded once
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +5%- OCOCEAN CONSERVANCYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +97%
- CCCLIMATE CENTRAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +209%
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.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
The Breakthrough Institute is a research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.
To accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Federal City Council and the most unlike its peers is Consortium for Ocean Leadership. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 21 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 American Forests ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE ACCESS PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON NATIONALS YOUTH BASEBALL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Hudson Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INVESTORS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INNOVATION NETWORK FOR COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds The Bhutan Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ADAPTATION PROFESSIONALS ↗
- Who funds International Living Future Institute ↗
- Who funds FEDERAL CITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CONSORTIUM FOR OCEAN LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds Capitol Hill Community Foundation ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Sant Charitable 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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