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The Fred Sands Family Foundation Co Winningham Becker & Company LLP
Its FY2024 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $52k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MMAC COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE | $75,000 |
| COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY | $16,500 |
| AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDAT | $15,000 |
| THE TREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION INTL | $10,000 |
| LIFE CENTER MINISTRIES INTERNATIONA | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS - PALM BEACH | $2,000 |
| COUNCIL OF AMERICAN AMBASSADORS | $2,000 |
| HEALING TREE INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
| DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| KEY FELLOWSHIP | $1,000 |
| GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC | $250 |
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 (FY17–22, $17k) 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 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of The Fred Sands Family Foundation Co Winningham Becker & Company LLP’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +20% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k 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
- AFAMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $200k · revenue +116%
- CFCOUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY2× · 2023–2024 · $32k · revenue +9%
- COCOUNCIL OF AMERICAN AMBASSADORS2× · 2021–2024 · $10k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- WBWILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLEone grant, 2018 · $200k
- TMTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $112k · revenue +47%
- SJST JOHNS HEALTH CENTERone grant, 2018 · $60k
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.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
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.
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
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 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…
Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
The national foundation for american policy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to public policy research on trade, immigration, and other issues of national importance. the organization seeks to expand the debate over the…
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
The quincy institute promotes ideas that move u.s. foreign policy away from endless war and toward vigorous diplomacy in the pursuit of international peace. qi's staff and non-resident experts expose the costs and consequences of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wv Law Enforcement Police K9 Fund Inc. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 42 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 AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds MMAC COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WEXNER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF AMERICAN AMBASSADORS ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Heritage Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALING TREE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hudson Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA PRO-LIFE FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR LIBERTY AND AMERICAN GREATNESS ↗
- Who funds HAMBURGER HOME ↗
- Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ↗
- Who funds IRIS GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds PRIESTS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds WV LAW ENFORCEMENT POLICE K9 FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
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: Farrell Family Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 The Fred Sands Family Foundation Co Winningham Becker & Company LLP 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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