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The Sahandaywi Foundation at a glance

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The Sahandaywi Foundation

Supporting organization of california community foundation.

$90k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.0MHealth$231kEducation$83kEnvironment$65kReligion$64kHousing & Shelter$29kHuman Services$13kAnimals$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $45,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $89,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $44,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$702k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION$15,000
PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC$15,000
LOS ANGELES OPERA$15,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CITIZENS FOR A BETTER FLATHEAD: $1k → 11%TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC: $1k → 9%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $2k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $2k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $2k → 14%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

WA
MT
MI
NY
MA
NV
IN
CA
CO
VA
AZ
TN
TX
FL
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 48 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
2

Total granted

$1.5M
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+11%

Still filing today

81%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesReligionRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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

  • HE
    HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $300k · revenue +99%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +48%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $165k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • OXFAM-AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +8%
  • TH
    TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +11%
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
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.

Arts & Culture
2
San Diego Opera Association

Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…

Arts & Culture
3
Opera Santa Barbara

See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…

Arts & Culture
4
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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5
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
6
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
7
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
8
California Academy of Sciences

The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…

Arts & Culture
9
Museum Associates

To serve the public through the collection, conservation, exhibition and interpretation of significant works of art from a broad range of cultures and historical periods, and through translation of these collections into meaningful…

Arts & Culture
10
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
11
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture
12
Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Enriches and transforms lives by entertaining, educating, engaging our community through exceptional programs for our stages, for the classroom, and for our community.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Riverside County Coalition for Alternatives to Domestic Violence. 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

44 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. 44 of the 51 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/44
Grantees still filing
36/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $300,000 · Arts & CultureHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERYLOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION: $175,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATIONLOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY: $165,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANYTHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC: $145,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INCLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $135,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION+12 more: $80,300 · Arts & Culture+12 morePasadena Hospital Association Ltd: $150,000 · HealthPasadena Hospit…SCRIPPS HEALTH: $50,000 · HealthSCRIPPS HEALTH+3 more: $9,500 · HealthCORONA-NORCO SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $31,000 · OtherCORONA-NORCO …SOUTH PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherSOUTH PASADEN…ESCONDIDO UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT: $19,000 · OtherESCONDIDO UNI…Dayle Mcintosh Center for the Disabled: $18,000 · OtherDayle Mcintos…ESCONDIDO UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT: $15,000 · OtherESCONDIDO UNI…DRYLANDS INSTITUTE: $12,000 · OtherDRYLANDS INST…DEEP SPRINGS CORPORATION: $12,000 · OtherDEEP SPRINGS …LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $10,500 · OtherLUTHERAN CHUR…Riverside County Coalition for Alternatives to Domestic Violence: $7,500 · Other+11 more: $35,700 · Other+11 moreEUROPEAN BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP INC: $54,000 · ReligionCOUNCIL OF ORANGE COUNTY SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL: $3,000 · ReligionYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsGLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $4,000 · Recreation & SportsQUAIL BOTANICAL GARDENS FOUNDATION: $17,000 · EnvironmentFLATHEAD LAND TRUST: $4,000 · EnvironmentChildren of the Night: $6,000 · Human ServicesCITIZENS FOR A BETTER FLATHEAD: $3,000 · Human ServicesTIDEWELL HOSPICE INC: $1,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$1,000,300Health$209,500Other$180,700Religion$57,000Recreation & Sports$24,000Environment$21,000Human Services$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $300,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE ASSOCIATION: $175,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY: $165,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPasadena Hospital Association Ltd: $150,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC: $145,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $135,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEUROPEAN BAPTIST FELLOWSHIP INC: $54,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCORONA-NORCO SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $31,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL: $22,500 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetSOUTH PASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDayle Mcintosh Center for the Disabled: $18,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetQUAIL BOTANICAL GARDENS FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOLD GLOBE THEATRE: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDEEP SPRINGS CORPORATION: $12,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMEGAN'S WINGS INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMuseum of Glass: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren of the Night: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY: $5,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFLATHEAD LAND TRUST: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ESCONDIDO FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInspire Life Skills Training Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBainbridge Arts and Crafts Inc: $3,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetACCESS MAMMOTH: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS FOR A BETTER FLATHEAD: $3,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYHOUSE 395: $2,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT: $1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBIGFORK PLAYHOUSE CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC: $1,400 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMADI World Art Foundation: $1,200 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles: $1,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MINING HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM: $1,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTIDEWELL HOSPICE INC: $1,000 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 San Diego Foundat…Sempra FoundationJewish Community Foun…Pasadena Showcase Hou…Walter J & Betty C Za…Whitefish Community F…California HumanitiesRancho Santa Fe Found…Weingart FoundationInland Empire Communi…California Community …Ibm International Fou…
The San Diego FoundationCA20.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · California Humanities · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Inland Empire Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Ibm International 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 Sahandaywi Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sahandaywi Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Tidewell Hospice Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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How do I get to The Sahandaywi Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Sahandaywi 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 51 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 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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