· Private foundation
The Sanford 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ProMusica Foundation | $20,000 |
| Oregon Contemporary Theater | $5,000 |
| Center For NonProfit Law | $4,800 |
| Orchestra Next | $3,000 |
| Eugene Southtowne Rotary Foundation | $2,500 |
| Food for Lane County | $2,000 |
| KLCC | $1,500 |
| Oregon Public Broadcasting | $1,500 |
| International Womens Forum of Idaho | $1,020 |
| The Alliance of Idaho | $1,000 |
| Whitman College Alumni Fund | $1,000 |
| Public Citizen | $1,000 |
| Mercer Island Rotary Foundation | $830 |
| The Community Library | $500 |
| Stove Team International | $500 |
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 (FY20–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +30% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.
49 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 6 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
STOVETEAM INTERNATIONAL6× · 2020–2025 · $51k · revenue +236%
SQUAREONE VILLAGES6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +35%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +21%
Funded once
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVEone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -66%- MVMISSION VIDA NUEVAone grant, 2021 · $5k
- NHNightingale Hostel Sheltersone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
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…
To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.
International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.
Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
How this is measured
55 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. 55 of the 98 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 STOVETEAM INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SQUAREONE VILLAGES ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON CONTEMPORARY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ALLIANCE WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds EUGENE SOUTHTOWNE ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRA NEXT ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE OF IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds THE VOICES PROJECT USA INC ↗
- Who funds CASITA COPAN INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds EUGENE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHITE BIRD CLINIC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DENTAL CARE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds JPR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EL PORVENIR ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Ugandan Water Project ↗
- Who funds AL OTRO LADO ↗
- Who funds McKenzie River Trust ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation ↗
- Who funds NIGHTINGALE HOSTED SHELTERS ↗
- Who funds Nextstep Recycling ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION 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: The Oregon Community Foundation · United Way of Lane County · First Fruits Foundation · Chambers Family Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Crow Farm Foundation · Larson Family Foundation · The Suwinski Family Foundation Inc · McKay Family Foundation · The Woodard Family Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sanford Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sanford Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Salem for Refugees: 35% of income from government
- White Bird Clinic: 29% of income from government
- Sponsors Inc: 8% of income from government
- McKenzie River Trust: 8% of income from government
- Orchestra Next: 5% of income from government
- Food for Lane County: 5% of income from government
- Oregon Contemporary Theatre: 5% of income from government
- Squareone Villages: 2% of income from government
- Eugene Symphony Association Inc: 2% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting: 1% of income from government
- In a Landscape: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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