California · Private foundation
The Sands Family 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.
- $181k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $11,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations The Sands Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $181k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $176k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $88k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $285k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $253k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $178k | 55% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $363k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $345k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $450,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Wilshire Boulevard Temple | $350,333 | 8 | n/a |
| Holocaust Museum La | $182,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Los Angeles Ballet Inc | $140,810 | 6 | 2% |
| Los Angeles Police Foundation | $136,900 | 8 | 0% |
| Prostate Cancer Foundation | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| International Churchill Society | $65,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | $62,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Jewish Institute for National Security of America | $55,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Aspen Valley Hospital Foundation | $47,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($584k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sands Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Sands Family Foundation
- How much does The Sands Family Foundation give?
- The Sands Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $181,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Sands Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (29%), Arts & Culture (21%), Religion (14%).
- Who are The Sands Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ($450k), Wilshire Boulevard Temple ($350k), Holocaust Museum La ($183k).
- Does The Sands Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sands 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Sands Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, California Community Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles.
- Where is The Sands Family Foundation based?
- The Sands Family Foundation is based in CA.
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