· Private foundation
The Sambol 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $158k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM | $35,000 |
| RAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| Sag Harbor Partnership | $17,510 |
| THE CHURCH | $15,000 |
| Jupiter Medical Center | $10,000 |
| Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey | $10,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING | $10,000 |
| RIVERVIEW MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR NEW YORK CITY | $10,000 |
| LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL | $10,000 |
| JUSTWORLD INTERNATIONAL | $7,500 |
| Dawgpatch Bandits | $7,500 |
| Wildlife Center Friends | $5,000 |
| MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% 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.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- RCRAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $145k · revenue +114%
- MSMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC8× · 2018–2025 · $145k · revenue +38%
- WEWild Earth Allies Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $86k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- UYUSCJ YOUTH MOVEMENTone grant, 2021 · $10k
- UUSCJone grant, 2022 · $10k
- FRFamily Resource Network of New Jerseyone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
New jersey lcv is the statewide political voice for the environment. working with our allies in the community, we advocate for strong environmental policies, support our environmental justice partners in pursuing more equitable policies,…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Double Bay Sanctuary. 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 35 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) — 1% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 112 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 RAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds Wild Earth Allies Inc ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SAG HARBOR PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVE WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds JustWorld International Inc ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CENTER FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE SHEDS LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF OCEAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF MIDDLESEX & MONMOUTH COUNTIES A NJ NONPROFIT CORP ↗
- Who funds DAWGPATCH BANDITS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds AUTISM FAMILY SERVICES OF NJ ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOVE FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIGN ↗
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: Oceanfirst Foundation · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · The Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation D/B/A Grunin Foundation · The Buckelew Family Foundation · The Ansell Grimm & Aaron Foundation Inc · Manasquan Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Provident Bank Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The H Hovnanian Family Foundation 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 Sambol Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 180 Turning Lives Around — 61% of income from government
- Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey Inc — 14% of income from government
- Hope Sheds Light Inc — 7% of income from government
- Jupiter Medical Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Palm Beach County Inc — 1% of income from government
- The University of Vermont Medical Center — 1% of income from government
- Monmouth University Inc — 0% of income from government
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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