North Carolina · Private foundation
The Sanders Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $18k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $600
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $197k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations The Sanders Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $18k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $19k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $27k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $19k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $12k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $16k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $19k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $16k | 55% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Matthew 25 Center | $7,600 | 3 | 18% |
| Fostering Hope Inc | $7,350 | 9 | 1% |
| Brookgreen Gardens | $6,825 | 9 | 0% |
| Coalition for Christian Outreach | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Asheville School Inc | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Columbus County Arts Council Inc | $4,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Coastal School Ministries Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lees-McRae College Inc | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Columbus County Literacy Council | $1,600 | 3 | 2% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Matthew 25 Center | $7,600 | 3 | 18% |
| Fostering Hope Inc | $7,350 | 9 | 1% |
| Brookgreen Gardens | $6,825 | 9 | 0% |
| Coalition for Christian Outreach | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Asheville School Inc | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Columbus County Arts Council Inc | $4,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Coastal School Ministries Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lees-McRae College Inc | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Columbus County Literacy Council | $1,600 | 3 | 2% |
| Students in the Word Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Blowing Rock Art & History Museum | $750 | 2 | 0% |
| Coastal Educational Foundation | $600 | 2 | 0% |
| Project Golf | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Lewis a Sikes Foundation | $500 | 1 | 1% |
| Columbus Jobs Foundation Inc | $300 | 1 | n/a |
| Helping Hand of Myrtle Beach Inc | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Will for Hope | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Honorbridge | $100 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($111k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sanders Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Waccamaw Community Foundation · Dan Cameron Family Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Sanders Family Foundation
- How much does The Sanders Family Foundation give?
- The Sanders Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $18,225 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Sanders Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (29%), Education (19%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are The Sanders Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Matthew 25 Center ($8k), Fostering Hope Inc ($7k), Brookgreen Gardens ($7k).
- Does The Sanders Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sanders Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Sanders Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Waccamaw Community Foundation, Dan Cameron Family Foundation Inc, Foundation for the Carolinas.
- Where is The Sanders Family Foundation based?
- The Sanders Family Foundation is based in NC.
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