· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
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.
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 +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
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
How this is measured
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%
- HPHEIFERS PROJECT USAone grant, 2022 · $100k
Philabundancegraduatedone 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.
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 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.
How this is measured
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.
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 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.
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
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.
- 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
How this is measured
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