· Private foundation
The Sanders Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PAUL UMC | $3,000 |
| BROOKGREEN GARDEN | $2,525 |
| TC COMMITTEE OF 100 | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| COASTAL SCHOOL MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| NC BOYS & GIRLS HOME | $1,000 |
| TABOR CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| COLUMBUS COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| FOSTERING HOPE | $600 |
| LEES MCRAE COLLEGE | $500 |
| BLOWING ROCK ART & HISTORY MUSEUM | $500 |
| BURROUGHS CHAPIN ART MUSEUM | $500 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $500 |
| COLUMBUS COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL | $500 |
| ARLINGTON OAK GROVE CEMETARY | $500 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FHFostering Hope Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +82%
- BGBROOKGREEN GARDENS9× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +52%
- ASASHEVILLE SCHOOL INC3× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- SLSOUTHEASTERN LAND PRESERVATION TRUSTone grant, 2023 · $10k
COALITION FOR CHRISTIAN OUTREACHone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -22%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $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.
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…
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 56 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 THE MATTHEW 25 CENTER ↗
- Who funds Fostering Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKGREEN GARDENS ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR CHRISTIAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 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 PROJECT GOLF ↗
- Who funds LEWIS A SIKES FOUNDATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sanders Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sanders Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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