Connecticut · Private foundation
The 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.
- $83k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,022
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $547k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations The Sachs Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 32 | $83k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $79k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $76k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $56k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $88k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $67k | 41% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $77k | 12% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $125k | 22% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Independent Institute | $60,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $57,150 | 5 | 0% |
| Princeton Prospect Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Westport Country Playhouse Inc | $20,400 | 8 | 0% |
| Fordham University | $20,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Surprise Lake Camp | $17,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Bulamu International | $14,600 | 5 | 0% |
| Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Framingham Centre Nursery School Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $9,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($401k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sachs Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Sachs Family Foundation
- How much does The Sachs Family Foundation give?
- The Sachs Family Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $82,997 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Sachs Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), Arts & Culture (19%), Health (11%).
- Who are The Sachs Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Independent Institute ($60k), The Trustees of Princeton University ($57k), Princeton Prospect Foundation ($30k).
- Does The Sachs Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The 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 Sachs Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is The Sachs Family Foundation based?
- The Sachs Family Foundation is based in CT.
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