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The Sandridge Foundation

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.

$93k
Granted FY2023
10
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Education$230kHuman Services$94kReligion$64kRecreation & Sports$10kArts & Culture$5kPhilanthropy$3kHealth$2kCrime & Legal$1kOther$0
02FY2023 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k4 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $79k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BREWTON-PARKER COLLEGE$25,000
AILEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$13,500
GEORGIA COLLEGE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
REINHARDT UNIVERSITY$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$10,000
AILEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$10,000
TULANE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE$5,000
REINHARDT UNIVERSITY$3,500
YMCA$3,000
TULANE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE$2,500
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%REINHARDT UNIVERSITY: $12k → 6%THE SALVATION ARMY: $20k → 9%YMCA: $3k → 10%MAMA BEAR CHARITIES INC: $3k → 11%WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER: $2k → 13%YMCA: $3k → 13%CROWN MAGNOLIA COURT: $3k → 18%AILEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $14k → 20%MERCER UNIVERSITY: $5k → 23%GEORGIA COLLEGE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 24%TULANE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE: $5k → 23%REINHARDT UNIVERSITY: $11k → 6%THE SALVATION ARMY: $10k → 9%ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $2k → 13%YMCA: $3k → 13%AILEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $10k → 20%GEORGIA COLLEGE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 24%TULANE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE: $3k → 23%REINHARDT UNIVERSITY: $10k → 6%THE SALVATION ARMY: $10k → 9%YMCA: $2k → 13%AILEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $10k → 20%GEORGIA COLLEGE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 24%TULANE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE: $2k → 23%REINHARDT UNIVERSITY: $10k → 6%THE SALVATION ARMY: $10k → 9%YMCA: $2k → 13%AILEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $10k → 20%GEORGIA COLLEGE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 24%REINHARDT UNIVERSITY: $10k → 6%THE SALVATION ARMY: $5k → 9%AILEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $10k → 20%GEORGIA COLLEGE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 24%REINHARDT UNIVERSITY: $10k → 6%THE SALVATION ARMY: $5k → 9%SEE SCHEDULE ATTACHED: $132k → 13%AILEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $10k → 20%GEORGIA COLLEGE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 24%REINHARDT UNIVERSITY: $4k → 6%BREWTON-PARKER COLLEGE: $25k → 20%REINHARDT UNIVERSITY: $3k → 6%BREWTON-PARKER COLLEGE: $15k → 20%REINHARDT UNIVERSITY: $3k → 6%BREWTON-PARKER COLLEGE: $10k → 20%REINHARDT UNIVERSITY: $2k → 6%BREWTON-PARKER COLLEGE: $10k → 20%BREWTON-PARKER COLLEGE: $10k → 20%BREWTON-PARKER COLLEGE: $10k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$392k · 8 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$392k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+64%

Still filing today

38%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther

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

  • BC
    BREWTON-PARKER COLLEGE INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $80k · revenue +67%
  • REINHARDT UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2018–2023 · $73k · revenue +12%
  • PA
    PAUL ANDERSON YOUTH HOME INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $30k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +9%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • MB
    MAMA BEAR CHARITIES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $3k

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
Gardner-Webb University

The university statement of values consists of christian heritage, baptist heritage, academic excellence, liberal arts, teamwork, a student-centered focus, community engagement and diversity.

Education
2
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
3
Southern Wesleyan University

Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.

Education
4
Morehouse School of Medicine

Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…

Education
5
William Peace University

William peace university is a private four-year university in downtown raleigh, north carolina. the mission of the university is to prepare students for careers in the organizations of tomorrow. rooted in the liberal arts tradition, the…

Education
6
Spelman College

Spelman college, a historically black college and global leader in the education of women of african descent, is dedicated to the academic excellence of its students.

Education
7
Belhaven University

Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.

Education
8
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
9
George Fox University

George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.

Education
10
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
11
LaGrange College

Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…

Education
12
Washington Adventist University

Washington adventist university is a learning community committed to the seventh-day adventist christian vision of excellence and service. this cosmopolitan institution challenges students to seize the opportunities for learning in the…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brewton-Parker College Inc and the most unlike its peers is Paul Anderson Youth Home Inc. 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BREWTON-PARKER COLLEGE INC — $80,000 · OtherBREWTON-PARKER COLLEGE INCAILEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $63,500 · OtherAILEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCHTHE SALVATION ARMY — $60,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYGEORGIA COLLEGE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $60,000 · OtherGEORGIA COLLEGE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONYMCA — $12,750 · OtherTULANE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE — $12,000 · Other+4 more — $7,000 · OtherREINHARDT UNIVERSITY — $73,250 · EducationREINHARDT UNIVERSITYTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY — $5,000 · EducationTHE CORPORATION OF ME…PAUL ANDERSON YOUTH HOME INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC — $1,000 · HealthTHE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC — $500 · HealthGEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC — $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$295,250Education$78,250Human Services$30,000Health$1,500Crime & Legal$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBREWTON-PARKER COLLEGE INC — $80,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetREINHARDT UNIVERSITY — $73,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPAUL ANDERSON YOUTH HOME INC — $30,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHITFIELD-MURRAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 BREWTON-PARKER COLLEGE INC
  • Who funds REINHARDT UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds PAUL ANDERSON YOUTH HOME INC
  • Who funds THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC
  • Who funds CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC
  • Who funds FOUNDATION OF WESLEY WOODS INC
  • Who funds WHITFIELD-MURRAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds THE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC

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.

Frances Wood Wilson Foundation IncGA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Frances Wood Wilson Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Tr Lois & Lucy Lampkin Fdn Ua · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organization The Sandridge 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Sandridge Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Sandridge 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $132k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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