· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $178k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+11 grants · $7.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| EQUATION CAMPAIGN AND GLOBAL CLIMATE LEGAL DEFENSE | $250,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER | $250,000 |
| PACE UNIVERSITY | $237,000 |
| EDUCATION SUCCESS FOUNDATION | $215,000 |
| THE HARLEY SCHOOL FUND | $201,250 |
| HUNGER FREE COLORADO | $150,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $782k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RRROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $6.9M · revenue +331%
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +81%- RRROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH2× · 2023–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +18%
Funded once
- TFTHE FOUNDATION OF THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTERone grant, 2023 · $900k
- GCGREATER CANANDAIGUA FAMILY YMCA INCone grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue -89%
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $125k · revenue +10%
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.
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.
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.
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.
Provide administrative and other support services to academic programs sponsored by rochester institute of technology both in the united states and abroad.
Our mission is to provide skilled, compassionate, cost-effective care that promotes wellness and meets the community's healthcare needs.
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.
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…
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Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
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…
How this is measured
100 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 FINGER LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER AND THE FINGER LAKES 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 Deep Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER CANANDAIGUA FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BERKELEY CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sands Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sands Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Child Rescue Coalition Inc: 20% of income from government
- Generation W Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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