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The Sandy Hill Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k54 grants · $256k
- $10k–50k50 grants · $794k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $510k
- $250k+6 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IMMACULATA UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY | $500,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER | $360,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF PATERSON | $350,000 |
| SETON HALL UNIVERSITY | $325,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER | $280,000 |
| OCEAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $110,000 |
| EL SOL | $100,000 |
| SETON HALL UNIVERSITY - PIRATE BLUE ATHLETIC FUND | $100,000 |
| ADORER MISSIONARY SISTERS OF THE POOR INC | $50,000 |
| FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| EVA'S VILLAGE INC | $40,000 |
| THE JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $35,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
121 repeat relationships — 76 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 30 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $451k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- JMJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +95%
- FFFoundation for Morristown Medical Center5× · 2020–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +56%
- IUIMMACULATA UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +24%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NJone grant, 2020 · $500k
- SBST BENEDICTS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INCone grant, 2021 · $250k
- RCROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PATERSONone grant, 2020 · $110k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
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For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.
We, holy cross hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. holy cross hospital is a member of trinity health.
Jfk medical associates, p.a. is committed to excellence in providing quality and compassionate healthcare services to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hogar Maria Foundation 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.
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 36 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
113 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 113 of the 200 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Morristown Medical Center ↗
- Who funds IMMACULATA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SETON HALL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds El Sol Jupiters Neighborhood Resource Center Inc ↗
- Who funds EVA'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds ADORER MISSIONARY SISTERS OF THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM WALKER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NEWARK INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FAIR SHARE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds United Way of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FUNSEPA US ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CORPORATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Investors Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The McJ Amelior Foundation · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Pseg Foundation Inc · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc
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 Sandy Hill 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Employment Horizons Inc — 90% of income from government
- Team Walker Inc — 68% of income from government
- Covenant House New Jersey Inc — 34% of income from government
- Nourishnj Inc — 27% of income from government
- Cumacecho Inc — 25% of income from government
- Eva's Village Inc — 19% of income from government
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- Paper Mill Playhouse — 9% of income from government
- Family Resource Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
- Opportunity Project Inc — 6% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- New Community Corporation — 4% of income from government
- Freedom House Inc — 4% of income from government
- Life Camp Inc — 4% of income from government
- Caldwell University Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Banner Lake Club Inc — 1% of income from government
- United Way of Palm Beach County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Seton Hall University — 1% of income from government
- Rowan University Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.
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