· Private foundation
The Sanders Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PAUL UMC | $3,000 |
| BROOKGREEN GARDEN | $2,525 |
| TC COMMITTEE OF 100 | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| NC BOYS & GIRLS HOME | $1,000 |
| COASTAL SCHOOL MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| TABOR CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| COLUMBUS COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| FOSTERING HOPE | $600 |
| COLUMBUS COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL | $500 |
| LEES MCRAE COLLEGE | $500 |
| ARLINGTON OAK GROVE CEMETARY | $500 |
| BLOWING ROCK ART & HISTORY MUSEUM | $500 |
| BURROUGHS CHAPIN ART MUSEUM | $500 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $500 |
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, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
24 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- FHFostering Hope Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +82%
- BGBROOKGREEN GARDENS9× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +52%
- CCCOLUMBUS COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $5k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- SLSOUTHEASTERN LAND PRESERVATION TRUSTone grant, 2023 · $10k
COALITION FOR CHRISTIAN OUTREACHone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -22%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $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.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.
To promote community and economic development in columbus county, north carolina.
An interdenominational college ministry on seven college campuses across north and south carolina. goal is to see students leave college equipped and passionate to walk with jesus in the church and spread his love to others.
Charleston southern university (csu) is a private, four-year co-educational institution organized under the laws of the state of south carolina as a non-profit organization and sponsored by the south carolina baptist convention. the…
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
Related by faith to the united methodist church, louisburg college is a two-year residential institution committed to offering a supportive community that nurtures young men and women intellectually, culturally, socially, physically, and…
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lees-Mcrae College Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lewis a Sikes Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 56 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 THE MATTHEW 25 CENTER ↗
- Who funds Fostering Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKGREEN GARDENS ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR CHRISTIAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL SCHOOL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Students in the Word Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BLOWING ROCK ART & HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEWIS A SIKES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT GOLF ↗
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: 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
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 Sanders 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 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.