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The Sachs Family Foundation

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.

$250k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$113k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$398kPhilanthropy$215kEducation$166kCivil Rights$92kHealth$82kAnimals$40kFood & Nutrition$25kReligion$19kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $113k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CULTURETRUST OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$113,000
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$30,000
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS$25,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY$22,500
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE$20,000
THE DALTON SCHOOL$6,000
FEEDING AMERICA$5,000
NORTHWESTERN$5,000
ACLU$5,000
CEDARS SINAI$4,000
ONE ACRE FUND$4,000
NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION$2,500
HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
NATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $50k → 7%PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $100k → 22%PHYSICIANS FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INC: $5k → 17%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $5k → 14%ONE ACRE FUND: $4k → 8%NORTHWESTERN: $5k → 14%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $45k → 7%THE BARNES FOUNDATION: $15k → 22%CEDARS SINAI: $5k → 14%PHYSICIANS FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INC: $3k → 17%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $45k → 7%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $42k → 22%TEMPLE ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOOD: $5k → 14%NORTHWESTERN: $5k → 14%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $45k → 7%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $42k → 22%TEMPLE ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOOD: $5k → 14%CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $25k → 17%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $4k → 14%NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $30k → 7%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $42k → 22%TEMPLE ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOOD: $5k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $23k → 17%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $4k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: $20k → 22%CEDARS SINAI: $4k → 14%CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $15k → 17%FEEDING AMERICA: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: $20k → 22%CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $6k → 17%FEEDING AMERICA: $5k → 14%CULTURETRUST OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $114k → 22%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $5k → 17%FEEDING AMERICA: $5k → 14%CULTURETRUST OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $113k → 22%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5k → 17%FEEDING AMERICA: $5k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5k → 17%FEEDING AMERICA: $5k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY: $4k → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $50k → 17%THE DALTON SCHOOL: $6k → 17%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $6k → 17%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $6k → 17%ACLU: $6k → 17%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $6k → 17%ACLU: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
CT
CA
MD
AR
DC
AL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$544k · 23 repeat orgs$185k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
7

Total granted

$544k
$179k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+34%

Still filing today

70%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalHealthEducationCivil RightsFood & NutritionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CG
    CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $227k · revenue +0%
  • THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $51k · revenue +69%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $27k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • PM
    PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -19%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +69%
  • TB
    THE BARNES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -6%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
3
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
4
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
5
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
10
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
11
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Philanthropic Trust; the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
21/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $226,550 · Arts & CultureCULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIAPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $100,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ARTMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $6,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $215,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $126,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF TH…DALTON SCHOOLS INC: $9,000 · EducationDALTON SCHOOLS…+2 more: $4,250 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: $40,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PE…TEMPLE ISRAEL OF HOLLYWOOD: $15,000 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAEL OF…NATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY: $12,500 · OtherNATIONAL DOWN SY…ACLU: $11,000 · OtherACLUNORTHWESTERN: $10,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERNFeeding America: $25,000 · OtherFeeding AmericaNorthwestern University: $12,000 · OtherNorthwestern Uni…SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $7,500 · Other+5 more: $19,900 · Other+5 moreTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $50,500 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 · Civil RightsPhysicians For Reproductive Health: $10,500 · Civil RightsCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $18,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $13,000 · HealthTHE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC: $7,500 · HealthRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $5,000 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $26,800 · InternationalHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $7,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 · InternationalONE ACRE FUND: $4,000 · International
Arts & Culture$397,550Philanthropy$215,000Education$139,250Other$152,900Civil Rights$79,000Health$43,500International$42,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $226,550 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $215,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $126,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $50,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $26,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwestern University: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPhysicians For Reproductive Health: $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE ACRE FUND: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Ayco Charitable F…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Sachs Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sachs Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Sachs Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Sachs Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 34 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.

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