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The Sandcastle 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COFAN SURVIVAL FUND | $20,000 |
| NOURISHING HOPE | $9,000 |
| ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $6,500 |
| FRIENDS OF NORTHSIDE | $5,000 |
| PAWS CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| ALLIANCE IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORS | $5,000 |
| RAVENSWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| HAYWOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| LIFEWORKS SERVICES | $3,000 |
| GRACE CHURCH | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% 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.
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 +85% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- PCPAWS CHICAGO5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +210%
- CSCOFAN SURVIVAL FUND INC2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +66%
- PCPigeon Community Development Center3× · 2021–2023 · $22k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- AOARK OF HAYWOOD WATERWAYone grant, 2020 · $13k
- PMPIGEON MULTICULTURAL CENTERone grant, 2020 · $5k
- TATHE ARC OF HAYWOOD COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +38%
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.
Guided by faith, love, and respect, we provide food, shelter, and individualized supportive services for Haywood County residents.
To reduce the conditions of poverty by providing comprehensive services to improve lives.to accomplish the mission, hhwp cac will collect and analyze data on the nature of poverty and the existing resources in the area. hhwp cac will…
To help relieve hunger in our community. we recognize that the total needs of individuals must be addressed, and will seek to facilitate the meeting of other needs. however, our primary purpose is that of providing nutritious meals to the…
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
Harwood place, inc. is dedicated to serving older adults and enriching the lives of those we touch by providing compassionate and loving care.
The mission of the human services coalition is to enhance the delivery of health and human services in the tompkins county area.
Humane Society for Hamilton County (HSHC) is saving lives, educating communities and completing families by providing a compassionate and healthy environment for the homeless animals of Hamilton County, Indiana, until they can be placed…
Residential care home for elderly and handicapped.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
To provide assistance to low income families
At community action coalition for south central wisconsin, inc. (cac) our mission is to transform our communities by fostering conditions where everyone can achieve social and economic security. cac exists to push back on poverty. our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifeworks Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cofan Survival 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.
10 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. 10 of the 25 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 PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds COFAN SURVIVAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Pigeon Community Development Center ↗
- Who funds HAYWOOD WATERWAYS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAVENSWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Haywood Community College Found ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds LIFEWORKS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF HAYWOOD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE-SPAN ↗
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.
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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 Sandcastle 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 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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