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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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$180k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$3.4MCommunity Improvement$2.9MInternational$1.3MEnvironment$938kEducation$719kAnimals$658kPhilanthropy$424kHuman Services$338kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $270k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $793k
$25,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ABENAKI HELPING ABENAKI$180,000
BLACK FARMER FUND$100,000
INTERVALE CENTER$100,000
PHILADELPHIA ZOO$85,000
NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENTAL FUND$67,500
VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND$60,000
HEIFER INTERNATIONAL$50,000
OAK GROVE SCHOOL$50,000
HAWTHORNE VALLEY FARM$50,000
SALVATION FARMS$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION: $40k → 6%HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $200k → 15%OUR PIECE OF THE PIE: $18k → 11%HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $200k → 15%THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN INC: $40k → 11%HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN SERVICES: $75k → 15%THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN INC: $20k → 11%HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN SERVICES: $53k → 15%HOLT INTERNATIONAL: $53k → 15%HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $50k → 15%HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN SERVICES: $47k → 15%HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN SERVICES: $22k → 15%WESTERN MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION: $12k → 14%WILLIAM WAY COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 22%WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
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OR
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of The Sandy River Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Sandy River Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 49 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
29

Total granted

$10M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+26%

Still filing today

67%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementEmploymentEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NH
    NEW HAMPSHIRE COMMUNITY LOAN FUND INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $950k · revenue +581%
  • IC
    INTERVALE CENTER INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $710k · revenue +33%
  • GS
    Good Shepherd Food Bank
    7× · 2018–2024 · $700k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • MO
    MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +21%
  • HP
    HEIFERS PROJECT USA
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • Philabundancegraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +83%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Maine Farmland Trust

Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.

Food & Nutrition
3
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
4
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire

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.

Food & Nutrition
5
Vermont Foodbank

To gather and share quality food and nurture partnerships so that no one in vermont will go hungry.

Food & Nutrition
6
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
7
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

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…

Food & Nutrition
8
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research

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.

Food & Nutrition
9
Foundation for a Strong Maine Economy

Focusmaine propels the growth of maine's most promising industries and transforms maine into a hub for top talent.

Community Improvement
10
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
11
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
12
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
40/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW HAMPSHIRE COMMUNITY LOAN FUND INC: $950,000 · OtherNEW HAMPSHIRE COMMUNITY LOAN FUND INCABENAKI HELPING ABENAKI: $660,000 · OtherABENAKI HELPING ABENAKIHEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $350,000 · OtherHEIFER INTERNATIONALWAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: $300,000 · OtherOAK GROVE SCHOOL: $250,000 · OtherHAWTHORNE VALLEY FARM: $225,000 · OtherNEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC: $282,500 · Other+55 more: $3,222,570 · Other+55 moreGood Shepherd Food Bank: $700,000 · Food & NutritionGood Shepherd Food…MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION: $500,000 · Food & NutritionMAINE ORGANIC FARM…Salvation Farms Inc: $350,000 · Food & NutritionSalvation Farms In…CULTIVATING COMMUNITY: $230,000 · Food & NutritionCULTIVATING COMMUN…Philabundance: $100,000 · Food & Nutrition+4 more: $182,600 · Food & Nutrition+4 moreINTERVALE CENTER INC: $710,000 · EmploymentINTERVALE CEN…VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC: $605,000 · EmploymentVERMONT SUSTA…HAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC: $120,000 · EmploymentHAWTHORNE VAL…HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $700,000 · Human ServicesWILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $75,000 · Human ServicesTHE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $60,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 · Human Services+2 more: $30,000 · Human ServicesZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA: $595,000 · AnimalsTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $243,285 · Community ImprovementCOMMON FUTURE: $120,000 · Community ImprovementBLACK FARMER FUND INC: $100,000 · Community ImprovementINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC: $90,000 · Community ImprovementBRAC USA INC: $500,000 · InternationalHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 · International
Other$6,240,070Food & Nutrition$2,062,600Employment$1,435,000Human Services$905,000Animals$595,000Community Improvement$553,285International$550,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE COMMUNITY LOAN FUND INC: $950,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetINTERVALE CENTER INC: $710,000 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $700,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $700,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetVERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC: $605,000 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA: $595,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION: $500,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetBRAC USA INC: $500,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSalvation Farms Inc: $350,000 over 8y, 9.2% of budgetWAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE: $300,000 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetNEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC: $282,500 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetOAK GROVE SCHOOL: $250,000 over 5y, 35% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $243,285 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCULTIVATING COMMUNITY: $230,000 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetAGRITECH INSTITUTE FOR SMALL FARMS INC: $205,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetMiddle Country Library Foundation Inc: $179,250 over 8y, 17% of budgetMAINE INITIATIVESINC: $170,000 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetCONFLUENCE PHILANTHROPY INC: $129,200 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc: $120,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC: $120,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMON FUTURE: $120,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPhilabundance: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSupport Center for Child Advocates: $100,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHIGH PEAKS ALLIANCE: $100,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC: $90,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWALDO THEATRE INC: $80,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetSTERLING COLLEGE: $80,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHEALTH AND WELFARE COUNCIL OF LONG ISLAND INC: $75,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetWILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $75,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTHE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHESTER AGRICULTURAL CENTER INC: $50,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $46,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSlow Money Institute Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetFOOD CONNECTS: $45,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $44,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS FUNDERS: $41,600 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMaine Philanthropy Center: $38,880 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetFOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION: $36,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFARMINGTON AREA ECUMENICAL MINISTRY: $32,500 over 5y, 12% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NEW YORK INC: $29,940 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVERMONT LAND TRUST INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAINE CHILDREN'S HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOregon State University Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN MAINE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 NEW HAMPSHIRE COMMUNITY LOAN FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERVALE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BRAC USA INC ↗
  • 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 Philabundance ↗
  • Who funds Support Center for Child Advocates ↗
  • Who funds BLACK FARMER FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGH PEAKS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC ↗
  • Who funds WALDO THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds STERLING COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH AND WELFARE COUNCIL OF LONG ISLAND 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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME31.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Sandy River Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sandy River Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Sandy River Charitable Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 87 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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