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The Sandpiper Lane Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$208k
Granted FY2022
9
Grants FY2022
6
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Health$100kAnimals$40kFood & Nutrition$40kHuman Services$20kInternational$20kScience & Tech$5kEducation$1kOther$0
02FY2022 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHERINE VIOLET HUBBARD FOUNDATION$40,000
Individual grant recipient$28,133
HOUSE OF RUTH$20,000
VANDERBUILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$20,000
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS$20,000
ONE GENERATION AWAY$20,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$20,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING$20,000
CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK$20,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 43% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES: $5k → 11%PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK: $3k → 14%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH: $10k → 6%PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK: $20k → 17%POLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $1k → 20%CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK: $20k → 14%CATHERINE VIOLET HUBBARD FOUNDATION: $40k → 9%ONE GENERATION AWAY: $20k → 4%UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS: $20k → 17%YMCA CAMP MASON: $28k → 7%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH: $5k → 6%HOUSE OF RUTH: $20k → 14%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH: $3k → 6%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

NY
OH
NJ
CT
CA
MD
TN
DC
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 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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
3
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
4
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
5
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
6
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
7
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
10
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
11
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
12
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc; the most unlike its peers is One Generation Away. 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

9 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. 9 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $28,133 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $20,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERINGUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS: $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY HOSPITALSPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK: $20,000 · OtherPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORKTHE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH: $17,500 · OtherTHE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCER R…The Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $5,000 · Other+1 more: $1,000 · OtherCATHERINE VIOLET HUBBARD FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · PhilanthropyCATHERINE VIOLET …Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $20,000 · HealthVanderbilt…PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $2,500 · HealthPANCREATIC…HOUSE OF RUTH: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterONE GENERATION AWAY: $20,000 · Civil RightsMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $20,000 · InternationalCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $20,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$111,633Philanthropy$40,000Health$22,500Housing & Shelter$20,000Civil Rights$20,000International$20,000Food & Nutrition$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCATHERINE VIOLET HUBBARD FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE GENERATION AWAY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $1,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Sandpiper Lane Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Sandpiper Lane Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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