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The Sanderson Family Foundation

Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.9M
Granted FY2017
14
Grants FY2017
13
Organizations funded FY2017
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Median grant, FY2017
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2017
$1,506,709
States reached, FY2017
5
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Worldreaderorg$100,00011%
Buck Institute for Research on Aging$10,00010%
International Rescue Committee INC$5,00010%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$5,00010%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.

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About The Sanderson Family Foundation

How much does The Sanderson Family Foundation give?
The Sanderson Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $1,886,709 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does The Sanderson Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Philanthropy (83%), Education (8%), Youth Development (5%).
Who are The Sanderson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: Worldreaderorg ($100k), Buck Institute for Research on Aging ($10k), International Rescue Committee INC ($5k).
Does The Sanderson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is The Sanderson Family Foundation based?
The Sanderson Family Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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