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· Private foundation
THE SANDERS FAMILY FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$465k
Granted FY2025
11
Grants
1
Communities
$170k
Largest
01What you fund
0175% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Education$1.3MArts & Culture$477kHuman Services$260kPhilanthropy$113kReligion$100kOther$731k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
furman
2019
—
2020
—
2021
—
2022
—
2023
scholarship
2024
scholarship
2025
historyscholarship
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 11 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k8 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $320k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
- CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$170,000
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE$100,000
- PRISMA HEALTH-UPSTATEUNIV OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE GREENVILLE$50,000
- CAINE HALTER FAMILY YMCA$40,000
- FURMAN UNIVERSITY$25,000
- UNITED MINISTRIES$20,000
- SOUTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES INC$20,000
- YMCA OF GREENVILLE (VERDAE YMCA)$10,000
- UPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM$10,000
- HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREENVILLE$10,000
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA ENGINEERING COLLEGE$10,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $260k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.9M · 18 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
18
4
Total granted
$2.9M
$81k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+36%
-8%
Still filing today
56%
25%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyReligionOther
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
- CCCHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $490k · revenue +46%
- SCSOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $447k · revenue +151%
- YOYMCA OF GREENVILLE7× · 2017–2023 · $260k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- FUFURMAN UNIVERSITY (AMERICAN HISTORY BOOK CLUB & FORUM)one grant, 2018 · $41k
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -8%- CHCAINE HALTER YMCAone grant, 2023 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Carolina University
A Christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.
Education
2
Columbia College
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.
Education
3
Greensboro College
An academic and social community that unites the liberal arts and Judeo-Christian values.
Education
4
University of South Carolina Alumni
Add value to students. engage our alumni. build the brand.
Education
5
Greenville College
To transform students for lives of character and service through a christ-centered education.
Education
6
North Carolina Independent
To promote higher education at private colleges & universities in north carolina
Education
7
Wofford College
The purpose of wofford college is to function as a liberal arts institution of superior quality.
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8
University of the Ozarks
A presbyterian church related university that provides undergraduate liberal arts education.
Education
9
The University of North Carolina At
To accept the transfer of assets from the uncg endowment fund and the affiliated foundations, which benefit the university, and to manage the investment of those assets.
Education
10
Chatham University
Provision of undergraduate and graduate education.
Education
11
Augustana College
Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.
Education
12
Medical University of South Carolina
The medical university of south carolina foundation (the "foundation") was incorporated in july 1966 under the laws of south carolina as an educational, charitable, eleemosynary foundation to promote educational, research, clinical, and…
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of South Carolina Educational and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$1,260,247Other$730,875Arts & Culture$477,000Human Services$260,000Philanthropy$113,300Religion$100,000
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 FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREENVILLE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ↗
- Who funds UPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Daniel-Mickel FoundationSC20.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Daniel-Mickel Foundation · Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · The Maddrey Foundation · Jean T and Heyward G Pelham Foundation · Hollingsworth Funds Inc · Scsymmes Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Spinks Family Foundation · Yeargin 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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~6 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.5× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 570323800 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Sanders Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Sanders Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines