· Private foundation
The Sandcastle 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFEWORKS SERVICES | $7,500 |
| HAYWOOD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC | $7,500 |
| HAYWOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| NOURISHING HOPE | $7,000 |
| COFAN SURVIVAL FUND | $7,000 |
| PAWS CHICAGO | $6,000 |
| ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF NORTHSIDE | $5,000 |
| RAVENSWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOC | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +85% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSCOFAN SURVIVAL FUND INC3× · 2023–2025 · $32k · revenue +66%
- PCPAWS CHICAGO6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +210%
- PCPigeon Community Development Center3× · 2021–2023 · $22k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- AOARK OF HAYWOOD WATERWAYone grant, 2020 · $13k
- AIALLIANCE IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORSone grant, 2024 · $5k
- PMPIGEON MULTICULTURAL CENTERone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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.
Guided by faith, love, and respect, we provide food, shelter, and individualized supportive services for Haywood County residents.
Dignity through dwellings, connection through community.
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…
The adrc of brown county supports older adults, adults with disabilities, and caregivers through education, advocacy, and resources. we connect people to answers, in our center, by phone, or at home, so everyone can live with diginity and…
The mission of the lightways hospice and serious illness care is to provide comprehensive, holistic, community based support services and care for terminally ill persons, their caregivers and loved ones without regard to economic status,…
Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.
Hayes Senior Housing Corporation provides housing and services for the elderly, to meet their physical, social, and psycho-social needs.
The mission of the human services coalition is to enhance the delivery of health and human services in the tompkins county area.
Our mission is to provide high quality and caring services to promote healthy people and communities.
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
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.…
To improve the quality of life in our community through crisis intervention and violence prevention.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds COFAN SURVIVAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Pigeon Community Development Center ↗
- Who funds Haywood Community College Found ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds HAYWOOD WATERWAYS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAVENSWOOD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEWORKS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Haywood Christian Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF HAYWOOD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE-SPAN ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sandcastle Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sandcastle Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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