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Steven B Sands Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$53k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$605k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Steven B Sands Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 96% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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 arriving2$53k0%
FY20233$63k67%
FY20223$104k67%
FY20211$50k0%
FY20203$27k100%
FY20194$3k75%
FY20181$500100%
FY20174$17kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$273kEducation$19kSocial Science$10kCrime & Legal$5kRecreation & Sports$2kInternational$1kHuman Services$750Arts & Culture$550Other$0

Top grantees

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

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($129k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Steven B Sands Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthwell Health Foundation: $171,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFriends Academy: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShulamith School for Girls Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKenya Education Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRising Stars Inc: $500 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 8.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to Steven B Sands Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Steven B Sands Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Steven B Sands Foundation

How much does Steven B Sands Foundation give?
Steven B Sands Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $52,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Steven B Sands Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (86%), Education (6%), Social Science (3%).
Who are Steven B Sands Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Northwell Health Foundation ($171k), Friends Academy ($6k), Bucknell University ($5k).
Does Steven B Sands Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Steven B Sands Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Steven B Sands Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Steven B Sands Foundation based?
Steven B Sands Foundation is based in NY.

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 15 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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