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The Bunnie and Jerome Sachs 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.

$19k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
27
Itemized grants FY2024
24
Organizations funded FY2023
8%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$13k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$250
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,500
Organizations funded a year
19 to 29
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
12
Total assets, FY2024
$202k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations The Bunnie and Jerome Sachs Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
Arts & CultureHealthEnvironmentCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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 arriving27$13k37%
FY202324$9k8%
FY202226$10k35%
FY202129$16k17%
FY202027$16k30%
FY201922$15k18%
FY201819$20k16%
FY201720$21kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$54kEducation$20kCivil Rights$12kHealth$9kYouth Development$8kHousing & Shelter$6kEnvironment$4kInternational$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
NY
OH
CA
CO
MD
AL

Top grantees

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

Show all 38 grantees
All grantees of The Bunnie and Jerome Sachs Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Strings Music Festival$25,00050%
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Inc$10,00020%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$6,00080%
The Evergreen State College Foundation$6,00050%
The Elie Wiesel Foundation Inc$3,75070%
National Park Trust Inc$3,50070%
Tuesday Musical Association$2,50010%
Old Skool Cafe$2,50050%
Marin Brain Injury Network Schurig Center for Brain Injury Recovery$2,25030%
American Indian College Fund$2,00040%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$1,50030%
Prader-Willi Homes of California$1,50031%
O'Hanlon Center for the Arts Inc$1,40020%
The Pituitary Society Inc$1,25040%
Lower East Side Tenement Museum$1,00070%
Mv Gate Inc$90030%
Homestead Valley Community Association$80030%
American Youth Symphony Inc$70070%
Young Musicians Foundation$70070%
Tribe Rising India$51020%
Pacific Pinball Museum$50050%
Woodland Cemetery Foundation Ofcleveland Ohio$50013%
Arts Scholars Foundation$50011%
Tntp Inc$50010%
Education Reform Now Inc$50010%
Rosie the Riveter Trust$40040%
Marin Theatre Company$40020%
The Outdoor Art Club Inc$35020%
Maximum Hope Foundation$35040%
826 Valencia$30030%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$25010%
Pennsylvania Stands Up Institute$25010%
Leaders Igniting Transformation Education Fund Inc$25010%
Worker Power Institute$25010%
Asian Community Development Council$25010%
Black Male Initiative Georgia Inc$25010%
Texas Freedom Network Education Fund$10010%
Bay Area Discovery Museum$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($39k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bunnie and Jerome Sachs Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetStrings Music Festival: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetRochester Philharmonic Orchestra Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $6,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Evergreen State College Foundation: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Elie Wiesel Foundation Inc: $3,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNational Park Trust Inc: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTuesday Musical Association: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOld Skool Cafe: $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMarin Brain Injury Network Schurig Center for Brain Injury Recovery: $2,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Indian College Fund: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPrader-Willi Homes of California: $1,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetO'Hanlon Center for the Arts Inc: $1,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Pituitary Society Inc: $1,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLower East Side Tenement Museum: $1,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMv Gate Inc: $900 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHomestead Valley Community Association: $800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Youth Symphony Inc: $700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Musicians Foundation: $700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTribe Rising India: $510 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPacific Pinball Museum: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWoodland Cemetery Foundation Ofcleveland Ohio: $500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetArts Scholars Foundation: $500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTntp Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEducation Reform Now Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRosie the Riveter Trust: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMarin Theatre Company: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Outdoor Art Club Inc: $350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMaximum Hope Foundation: $350 over 4y, 0.1% of budget826 Valencia: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPennsylvania Stands Up Institute: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeaders Igniting Transformation Education Fund Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorker Power Institute: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAsian Community Development Council: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlack Male Initiative Georgia Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Freedom Network Education Fund: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBay Area Discovery Museum: $100 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 38.

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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.

Marin Community FoundationCA17.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Barn Road Foundation · Voter Registration Project · Way to Rise · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · New Venture Fund

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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About The Bunnie and Jerome Sachs Family Foundation

How much does The Bunnie and Jerome Sachs Family Foundation give?
The Bunnie and Jerome Sachs Family Foundation reported 27 itemized grants totaling $12,600, out of $19,100 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Bunnie and Jerome Sachs Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Education (13%), Civil Rights (8%).
Who are The Bunnie and Jerome Sachs Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Strings Music Festival ($25k), Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Inc ($10k), Southern Poverty Law Center Inc ($6k).
Does The Bunnie and Jerome Sachs Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Bunnie and Jerome Sachs Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Bunnie and Jerome Sachs Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Tides Foundation, Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation.
Where is The Bunnie and Jerome Sachs Family Foundation based?
The Bunnie and Jerome Sachs Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 63 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $19k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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