· Private foundation
Sheldon J Sandman Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AM SHALOM | $9,950 |
| Temple Isaiah | $6,354 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $3,000 |
| Cure SMA | $2,400 |
| Ringling Museum Art Foundation | $1,950 |
| Asolo Repertory Theater | $1,267 |
| SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER | $1,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $750 |
| Lurie Children's Foundation | $750 |
| Library Foundation of Sarasota Coun | $750 |
| Arthritis Foundation | $600 |
| ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $500 |
| Hadassah The Woman's Zionist Org of | $500 |
| Sarasota Museum of Art | $500 |
| National Jewish Health Association | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
128 repeat relationships: 100 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO8× · 2018–2025 · $37k · revenue +34%
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +51%- FOFAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA6× · 2019–2025 · $5k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- BSBENTLEY SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +15%
- WFWTC Foundationone grant, 2023 · $400
- AFAM FRIENDS FOR MADELYN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2022 · $250
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.
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Aim at melanoma (aim) is globally engaged and locally invested in advancing the battle against melanoma through innovative research, legislative reform, education, and patient and caregiver support. founded in 2004, aim at melanoma is the…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Putting people with lupus at the center of all we do, the lupus research alliance drives the discovery & development of next generation lupus diagnostics and curative treatments through innovative research & collaborations.
How this is measured
79 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. 79 of the 161 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds BENTLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sheldon J Sandman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sheldon J Sandman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
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