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The Sanford & Linda Gallanter 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$375k
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$2.1MInternational$1.9MReligion$431kCivil Rights$398kPublic Benefit$335kEducation$308kFood & Nutrition$170kHealth$166kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $159k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
  • $250k+2 grants · $695k
$7,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW ISRAEL FUND$375,000
SAN FRANCISCO JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$320,000
J STREET EDUCATION FUND$150,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION$37,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$25,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$15,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$15,000
ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE$15,000
OPTIONS RECOVERY SERVICES$11,000
SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND$10,000
B'NAI TORAH$8,000
INEQUALITY MEDIA$7,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH FAMILTY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $15k → 10%ON YOUR FEET FOUNDATION NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $7k → 10%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

MT
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 42 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
22

Total granted

$4.4M
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
-10%

Still filing today

57%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalCivil RightsEducationHealthReligionOther
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

  • JS
    J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $363k · revenue +40%
  • CC
    COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND
    6× · 2018–2024 · $285k · revenue +187%
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $275k · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • TV
    THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +120%
  • INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -15%
  • MA
    MPOWER ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue -98%
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
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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2
Jews of Color Initiative

The Jews of Color Initiatives mission is to advance racial equity in the U.S. Jewish community by centering the leadership of Jews of Color and ensuring that our communities and institutions reflect the multiracial reality of the Jewish…

Civil Rights
3
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
4
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
7
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
8
J Street

To organize pro-israel, pro-peace, pro-democracy americans to promote us policies that embody our deeply held jewish and democratic values and that help secure the state of israel as a democratic homeland for the jewish people.

International
9
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
10
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
11
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement
12
Jewish Electorate Institute

The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is New Lehrhaus the Bay Area Hub for Adult Jewish Learning. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 72 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/44
Grantees still filing
28/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAN FRANCISCO JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2,072,835 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERJ STREET EDUCATION FUND: $255,000 · OtherJ STREET EDUCATION FUNDPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $132,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $114,000 · Other+44 more: $359,623 · Other+44 moreNEW ISRAEL FUND: $1,711,500 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUNDULTIMATE PEACE INC: $125,000 · InternationalULTIMATE PEACE INCMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $90,000 · International+4 more: $91,000 · InternationalAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $275,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $85,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $25,000 · Civil RightsMoveOn Education Fund: $20,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $20,000 · Civil RightsJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $362,500 · ReligionCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $285,000 · Public BenefitKQED INC: $37,500 · Arts & CultureJewish Film Institute: $25,000 · Arts & CultureINEQUALITY MEDIA: $22,500 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureKOVNO COMMUNICATIONS INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $4,000 · Arts & CulturePALO ALTO UNIVERSITY INC: $51,000 · EducationCENTER FOR CREATIVE CHANGE: $10,000 · EducationNew Lehrhaus The Bay Area Hub for Adult Jewish Learning: $6,000 · Education
Other$2,933,458International$2,017,500Civil Rights$425,000Religion$362,500Public Benefit$285,000Arts & Culture$104,000Education$67,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $1,711,500 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $362,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $285,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $275,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetULTIMATE PEACE INC: $125,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $114,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $90,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $85,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPALO ALTO UNIVERSITY INC: $51,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $43,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $37,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Film Institute: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $24,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINEQUALITY MEDIA: $22,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP: $21,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMoveOn Education Fund: $20,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $18,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPTIONS RECOVERY SERVICES: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CREATIVE CHANGE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNew Lehrhaus The Bay Area Hub for Adult Jewish Learning: $6,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetOn Your Feet Inc: $5,773 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKOVNO COMMUNICATIONS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetINTEGRITY FIRST FOR AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMONTANA FREE PRESS: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HIDE AND SEEK FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBay Area Community Services Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAND FOR CHILDREN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetJewish Federation of Greater Houston: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINE MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBay Area Jewish Healing Center: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 ISRAEL FUND ↗
  • Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ULTIMATE PEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds PALO ALTO UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds KQED INC ↗
  • Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Film Institute ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds INEQUALITY MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds CITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP ↗
  • Who funds MoveOn Education Fund ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds HIAS INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds OPTIONS RECOVERY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE CHANGE ↗
  • Who funds MPOWER ALLIANCE ↗

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.

Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA22.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Tides Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Sanford & Linda Gallanter Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sanford & Linda Gallanter Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report 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.

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 72 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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