· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| GEORGE M PULLMAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| WORD OF HONOR FUND | $1,000 |
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 (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 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 +41% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation ↗
- Who funds CO2 COALITION ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tawny and Jerry Sanders Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tawny and Jerry Sanders Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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