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The Sandler Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Sandler Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$179k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Youth Development$510kPublic Benefit$397kHealth$204kPhilanthropy$121kInternational$121kCrime & Legal$99kRecreation & Sports$55kFood & Nutrition$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $14k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$339k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAIRVOTE$100,000
GLOBAL GOOD FUND$65,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$5,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$4,116
CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY$4,000
YELLOW RIBBON FUND$510
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 32% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ST OLAF COLLEGE: $10k → 11%FEED FAMLIES MINISTRY: $35k → 13%PHILADELPHIA VIP: $75k → 22%LONG BEACH GIVES: $1k → 14%LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $3k → 9%JAWONIO FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 14%MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC DBA DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $100k → 17%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $4k → 14%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%CANNON BALLER FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%THE COY WILLIARD DUGOUT FUND (HIGH POINT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION): $5k → 16%PEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $1k → 13%MEDIATORS FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%RENEE JONES EMPOWERMENT CENTER: $5k → 17%GATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS: $100k → 9%BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL: $500 → 6%BASTION COMMUNITY OF RESILIENCE: $2k → 23%GLOBAL GOOD FUND: $100k → 6%FAIRVOTE: $100k → 8%AGAWAM COUNCIL: $50k → 7%PHILADELPHIA VIP: $24k → 22%JAWONIO FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 14%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $105k → 14%CANNON BALLER FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%MEDIATORS FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%GLOBAL GOOD FUND: $75k → 6%FAIRVOTE: $100k → 8%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $50k → 14%CANNON BALLER FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%GLOBAL GOOD FUND: $75k → 6%FAIRVOTE: $75k → 8%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $15k → 14%GLOBAL GOOD FUND: $65k → 6%FAIRVOTE: $70k → 8%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $10k → 14%GLOBAL GOOD FUND: $195k → 6%FAIRVOTE: $50k → 8%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $10k → 14%IMPACTASSETS INC: $10k → 8%WARRIOR-SCHOLAR PROJECT: $10k → 14%YELLOW RIBBON FUND: $510 → 8%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $5k → 14%SUITED FOR CHANGE: $5k → 14%WINDWARD FUND: $10k → 14%MBA OPEN DOORS FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $4k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MN
NY
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 8 repeat orgs$353k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
18

Total granted

$1.2M
$344k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
0%

Still filing today

88%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthEducationPhilanthropyPublic BenefitRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GG
    Global Good Fund
    5× · 2018–2025 · $510k · revenue +86%
  • F
    FAIRVOTE
    5× · 2020–2025 · $395k · revenue +75%
  • PHILADELPHIA VIP INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $99k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • GP
    GATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -88%
  • MS
    MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC DBA DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • AC
    AGAWAM COUNCIL
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -35%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
2
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
3
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
4
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
5
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
6
Global Impact Investing Network Inc

The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…

Philanthropy
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
Vital Voices Global Partnership Inc

Vital voices global partnership's mission is to identify, invest in and bring visibility to extraordinary women around the world by unleashing their leadership potential to transform lives and accelerate peace and prosperity in their…

International
9
United Way Worldwide

To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.

Philanthropy
10
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
11
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
12
The Leadership Foundation

The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mediators Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bastion Community of Resilience. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
12/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Global Good Fund: $510,000 · Public BenefitGlobal Good Fund+1 more: $2,000 · Public BenefitFAIRVOTE: $395,000 · Civil RightsFAIRVOTECANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $194,000 · OtherCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITYMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC DBA DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $100,000 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA…FEED FAMLIES MINISTRY: $35,000 · OtherFEED FAMLIES MINISTRY+15 more: $82,116 · Other+15 moreGATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS: $100,000 · PhilanthropyIMPACTASSETSINC: $10,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $1,510 · PhilanthropyPHILADELPHIA VIP INC: $99,000 · Crime & LegalAGAWAM COUNCIL: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsMEDIATORS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · InternationalROOTS OF DEVELOPMENT INC: $10,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 · International+1 more: $500 · International
Public Benefit$512,000Civil Rights$395,000Other$411,116Philanthropy$111,510Crime & Legal$99,000Recreation & Sports$50,000International$35,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGlobal Good Fund: $510,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetFAIRVOTE: $395,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $194,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetGATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA VIP INC: $99,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetAGAWAM COUNCIL: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMEDIATORS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWINDWARD FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACTASSETSINC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROOTS OF DEVELOPMENT INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWARRIOR-SCHOLAR PROJECT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST OLAF COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNo One Left Behind: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $4,116 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJawonio Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBASTION COMMUNITY OF RESILIENCE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMBA OPENS DOORS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOW RIBBON FUND INC: $510 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Paypal Charitable Giv…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Sandler Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sandler Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 31 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home