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The Sandy River Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $270k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $793k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABENAKI HELPING ABENAKI | $180,000 |
| INTERVALE CENTER | $100,000 |
| BLACK FARMER FUND | $100,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA ZOO | $85,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENTAL FUND | $67,500 |
| VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND | $60,000 |
| HEIFER INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| SALVATION FARMS | $50,000 |
| OAK GROVE SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| HAWTHORNE VALLEY FARM | $50,000 |
| THE CARROT PROJECT | $40,000 |
| CONFLUENCE PHILANTHROPY | $31,350 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| CHESTER AGRICULTURAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| CULTIVATING COMMUNITY | $25,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $905k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Sandy River Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +26% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k 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
- NHNEW HAMPSHIRE COMMUNITY LOAN FUND INC4× · 2018–2021 · $950k · revenue +581%
- ICINTERVALE CENTER INC8× · 2018–2025 · $710k · revenue +33%
- GSGood Shepherd Food Bank7× · 2018–2024 · $700k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- MOMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +21%
Philabundancegraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +83%- HPHIGH PEAKS ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +332% · 36% of their budget
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.
The northeast organic farming association of vermont promotes organic practices to build an ecomnomically viable, ecologically sound and socially just vermont agricultural system that benefits all living things.
Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.
Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.
NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.
To gather and share quality food and nurture partnerships so that no one in vermont will go hungry.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Foundation for food and agriculture research connects funders, researchers and farmers through public-private partnerships to support audacious research addressing the biggest food and agriculture challenges.
Focusmaine propels the growth of maine's most promising industries and transforms maine into a hub for top talent.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oak Grove School. 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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 87 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 NEW HAMPSHIRE COMMUNITY LOAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds INTERVALE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds BRAC USA INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Salvation Farms Inc ↗
- Who funds WAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OAK GROVE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATING COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds AGRITECH INSTITUTE FOR SMALL FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds Middle Country Library Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MAINE INITIATIVESINC ↗
- Who funds CONFLUENCE PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON FUTURE ↗
- Who funds Support Center for Child Advocates ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds HIGH PEAKS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BLACK FARMER FUND INC ↗
- Who funds INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds WALDO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds STERLING COLLEGE ↗
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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Claneil Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · High Meadows Fund Inc · Henry P Kendall Foundation · Onion Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Tides 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 Sandy River Charitable 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.
- Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc — 51% of income from government
- The Village for Families and Children — 50% of income from government
- Agritech Institute for Small Farms Inc — 48% of income from government
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- Salvation Farms Inc — 26% of income from government
- Our Piece of the Pie Inc — 21% of income from government
- Food Connects — 15% of income from government
- Intervale Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Sterling College — 10% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 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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