· Private foundation
Tawny and Jerry Sanders Charitable 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $67k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE COLLEAGUES | $30,000 |
| UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN | $14,500 |
| JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| RACE TO ERASE MS | $10,000 |
| KEEP MEMORY ALIVE | $6,000 |
| LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES | $5,200 |
| THE MUSIC CENTER | $3,000 |
| KEEP BEL AIR BEAUTIFUL | $2,000 |
| GEORGE M PULLMAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| WORD OF HONOR FUND | $1,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $240k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +41% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- TJTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $109k · revenue +212%
- TJTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST7× · 2017–2023 · $62k · revenue +48%
- LMLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- TFTUFTS FUNDone grant, 2017 · $50k
- WAWALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +71%
- JTJOE TORRE SAFE AT HOMEone grant, 2023 · $13k
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.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is George M Pullman Educational Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
32 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. 32 of the 44 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 RACE TO ERASE MS ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEAGUES INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE J PAUL GETTY TRUST ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BEL-AIR GARDEN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds KEEP BEL AIR BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds TAX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING FUND ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GEORGE M PULLMAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Word of Honor Fund ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEARST CASTLE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CO2 COALITION ↗
- Who funds Howard Jarvis Taxpayers 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: California Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Tawny and Jerry Sanders Charitable Foundation 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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