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The Sands Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
55
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$2.9M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$28MHealth$15MEducation$11MRecreation & Sports$4.2MArts & Culture$2.9MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.9MFood & Nutrition$2.8MCommunity Improvement$2.8MOther$0
02FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $178k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+11 grants · $7.8M
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$301M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,909,900
ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH$1,213,000
GREATER ROCHESTER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION$650,000
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$570,000
NYU LANGONE HEALTH$500,000
CANANDAIGUA AREA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$470,448
SOUND FUTURE FOUNDATION$337,500
BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$325,000
FINGER LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$300,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER$250,000
EQUATION CAMPAIGN AND GLOBAL CLIMATE LEGAL DEFENSE$250,000
PACE UNIVERSITY$237,000
EDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION$215,000
THE HARLEY SCHOOL FUND$201,250
HUNGER FREE COLORADO$150,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $463k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE DISABILITY OPPORTUNITY FUND: $35k → 6%SHAWN'S HEROES FOR LIFE: $2k → 13%BED-STUY CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER: $35k → 20%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND: $2k → 11%GENERATION W: $10k → 14%MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $25k → 15%THE DISABILITY OPPORTUNITY FUND: $33k → 6%MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%THE DISABILITY OPPORTUNITY FUND: $33k → 6%SAME CAFE: $8k → 12%CHILD RESCUE COALITION: $5k → 11%CHILD RESCUE COALITION: $5k → 11%HILLSIDE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $150k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $12k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $50k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $25k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $10k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $10k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
TN
DC
AL
FL

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$42M · 73 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

73 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
51

Total granted

$42M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+22%

Still filing today

71%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $782k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

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

  • RR
    ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $6.9M · revenue +331%
  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +81%
  • RR
    ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION OF THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER
    one grant, 2023 · $900k
  • GC
    GREATER CANANDAIGUA FAMILY YMCA INC
    one grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue -89%
  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    one grant, 2017 · $125k · revenue +10%

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
Rochester General College of Health Careers

The rochester general college of health careers is dedicated to preparing adult learners with the knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary to pursue health careers, advanced education, and lifelong learning.

Education
2
Rochester General Health System

Rochester general health system, provides patient care, senior housing, laboratory services, and community outreach to residents and other clients in monroe county, new york and several surrounding counties.

Health
3
Rit Global Delivery Corporation

Provide administrative and other support services to academic programs sponsored by rochester institute of technology both in the united states and abroad.

Education
4
Gouverneur Hospital

Our mission is to provide skilled, compassionate, cost-effective care that promotes wellness and meets the community's healthcare needs.

Health
5
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
6
The Rochester General Hospital

To establish, erect and maintain a general hospital and dispensary in the county of monroe, ny for medical and surgical aid, care and treatment of persons in need thereof; to carry on and conduct a training school for nurses; to promote…

Health
7
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc

Rockefeller philanthropy advisors aims to accelerate philanthropy in pursuit of a just world

Philanthropy
8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
The Unity Hospital of Rochester

See schedule oto make a positive difference in the lives and health status of individuals in the city of rochester, ny and western monroe county. we will educate our community, our providers, and future health care professionals in order…

Health
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rochester Regional Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lost Bird Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community College Foundatio…Community FoundationsYmca Youth DevelopmentFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Environmental Conservation …Pregnancy Support ServicesCancer Support ServicesLocal History MuseumsYouth Development CentersLgbtq+ Community SupportAddiction Recovery ServicesMilitary Veterans SupportVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Animal Rescue and ShelterPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Arts CentersIndependent K-12 SchoolsLocal Food System Organizat…Food Banks and PantriesDance Arts OrganizationsCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr14%10%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr19%10%20–35yr13%67%35–55yr16%12%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/105
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,655

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

100 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 100 of the 144 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/100
Grantees still filing
66/100
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,092,494 · PhilanthropyROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER NY INC — $1,170,000 · Philanthropy+6 more — $806,500 · PhilanthropyTHE HARLEY SCHOOL FUND — $5,103,775 · OtherTHE HARLEY SCHOOL FUNDHOPE TOWN UNITED INC — $2,850,000 · OtherHOPE TOWN UNITED INCTHOMPSON HEALTH — $1,788,500 · OtherTHOMPSON HEALTHGREATER ROCHESTER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION — $1,675,000 · OtherGREATER ROCHESTER OF COMMERCE FOU…FINGER LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $1,500,000 · OtherFINGER LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGENYU LANGONE HEALTH — $1,132,776 · OtherTHE FOUNDATION OF THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER — $900,000 · Other+79 more — $6,653,700 · Other+79 moreROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $6,870,000 · HealthROCHESTER REGI…ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH — $2,231,000 · HealthROCHESTER REGI…+10 more — $171,500 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $2,334,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC — $1,460,000 · EducationGREATER ROCH…EDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION INC — $1,252,477 · EducationEDUCATION SU…PACE UNIVERSITY — $1,165,500 · EducationPACE UNIVERS…SKIDMORE COLLEGE — $815,000 · EducationSKIDMORE COL…EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK — $273,810 · Education+11 more — $551,500 · Education+11 moreCANANDAIGUA AREA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $1,070,448 · Community ImprovementMERCY FLIGHT CENTRAL INC — $785,000 · Community ImprovementBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc — $627,500 · Community Improvement+1 more — $3,000 · Community ImprovementFORT HILL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $826,000 · Arts & CultureInterVol Inc — $522,500 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $248,370 · Arts & CultureDeep Arts Inc — $200,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER FILM SOCIETY — $154,639 · Arts & CultureARTISANWORKS AND EVENTS INC — $150,000 · Arts & CultureROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureMILAGRO FOUNDATION INC — $95,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $67,500 · Arts & CultureFOODLINK INC — $660,080 · Food & NutritionHUNGER FREE COLORADO — $485,333 · Food & NutritionTHE NEW YORK STATE WINE AND CULINARY CENTER INC — $277,500 · Food & Nutrition+2 more — $26,100 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$27,068,994Other$21,603,751Health$9,272,500Education$7,852,287Community Improvement$2,485,948Arts & Culture$2,364,009Food & Nutrition$1,449,013

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,092,494 over 8y, 12% of budgetROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $6,870,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetHOPE TOWN UNITED INC — $2,850,000 over 3y, 83% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $2,334,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH — $2,231,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetGREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC — $1,460,000 over 4y, 67% of budgetEDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION INC — $1,252,477 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER NY INC — $1,170,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetPACE UNIVERSITY — $1,165,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFORT HILL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $826,000 over 7y, 49% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE — $815,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY FLIGHT CENTRAL INC — $785,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetFOODLINK INC — $660,080 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc — $627,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSOUND FUTURE FOUNDATION — $612,750 over 3y, 57% of budgetLOST BIRD PROJECT INC — $565,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetInterVol Inc — $522,500 over 5y, 18% of budgetHUNGER FREE COLORADO — $485,333 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetTHE GROWHAUS — $479,599 over 6y, 9.0% of budgetF F THOMPSON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $400,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetGLYNWOOD CENTER INC — $370,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetROCHESTER CITY BALLET INC — $360,500 over 5y, 18% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC — $300,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFINGER LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE NEW YORK STATE WINE AND CULINARY CENTER INC — $277,500 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetEDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK — $273,810 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetEQUATION CAMPAIGN AND GLOBAL CLIMATE LEGAL DEFENSE — $250,000 over 1y, 94% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $248,370 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER CANANDAIGUA FAMILY YMCA INC — $200,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetDeep Arts Inc — $200,000 over 4y, 60% of budgetTHE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL — $175,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC — $175,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368) — $162,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH SENIOR LIFE FOUNDATION INC — $160,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetDENVER FILM SOCIETY — $154,639 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetEDCEPTIONAL INC — $150,000 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetARTISANWORKS AND EVENTS INC — $150,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DISABILITY FUND INC — $100,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNAZARETH UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC — $95,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMILAGRO FOUNDATION INC — $95,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetFINGER LAKES AREA COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT — $75,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSPRING STREET CLIMATE FUND INC — $60,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSUNSET PARK HEALTH COUNCIL INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY MOTHER COUNTS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 ROCHESTER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE TOWN UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds GREATER ROCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER NY INC ↗
  • Who funds PACE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CANANDAIGUA AREA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds FORT HILL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MERCY FLIGHT CENTRAL INC ↗
  • Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
  • Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOUND FUTURE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOST BIRD PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds InterVol Inc ↗
  • Who funds HUNGER FREE COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds THE GROWHAUS ↗
  • Who funds F F THOMPSON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GLYNWOOD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCHESTER CITY BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES INC ↗
  • Who funds FINGER LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW YORK STATE WINE AND CULINARY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds EQUATION CAMPAIGN AND GLOBAL CLIMATE LEGAL DEFENSE ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CANANDAIGUA FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
  • Who funds Deep Arts Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND 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.

Max and Marian Farash…Rochester Area Commun…Esl Charitable Founda…Paychex Charitable Fo…United Way of Greater…Summers Foundation IncFinger Lakes Area Com…Greater Rochester Hea…The Riedman FoundationRochester Area Commun…William & Sheila Kona…Daisy Marquis Jones F…
Max and Marian Farash Charitable FoundationNY55.2× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Summers Foundation Inc · Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · The Riedman Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones 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 Sands Family Foundation Inc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 20%
  • Child Rescue Coalition Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Generation W Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 Sands Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Sands Family Foundation Inc 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 144 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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