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The Sank Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Sank Family Foundation Inc

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.

$185k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Civil Rights$292kHealth$232kInternational$140kEducation$75kReligion$45kYouth Development$40kHuman Services$40kHousing & Shelter$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $145k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE$20,000
ACLU OF GEORGIA$20,000
CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED$20,000
YAFFED FOUNDATION$15,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$15,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FOUNDATION$15,000
DREW UNIVERSITY$10,000
SAGE$10,000
GLNS$10,000
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN$10,000
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY GA$5,000
JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER$5,000
THE CARTER CENTER$5,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
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 (FY20–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $1k → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%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

IL
NY
MA
NJ
VA
DC
GA
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$899k · 31 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
7

Total granted

$899k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+32%

Still filing today

52%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationInternationalCivil RightsArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $105k · revenue +79%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +48%
  • TC
    THE CARTER CENTER INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $35k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • AP
    ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD AND SANGAMON COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $18k · revenue +152%
  • NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +4%
  • HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +49%
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
5
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
6
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
7
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
11
Association of American Medical Colleges

Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.

Education
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is New York Public Radio. 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

22 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. 22 of the 38 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
16/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACLU OF GEORGIA: $127,500 · OtherACLU OF GEORGIACENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: $110,000 · OtherCENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD FOUNDATION: $54,900 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FOUNDATIONYAFFED FOUNDATION: $45,000 · OtherYAFFED FOUNDATIONSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: $40,000 · OtherSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELD…GLNS: $40,000 · OtherGLNSPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $35,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY GA: $25,000 · Other+11 more: $81,050 · Other+11 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $105,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONT…THE CARTER CENTER INC: $35,000 · InternationalTHE CARTER CENTER I…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 · InternationalHABITAT FOR HUMANIT…ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $75,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATI…HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsHUMAN RIGHTS …HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Civil RightsHUMAN RIGHTS …NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $15,000 · HealthJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $15,000 · HealthTHE ASSISTANCE FUND INC: $10,000 · HealthGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC: $4,000 · HealthSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $2,000 · HealthDREW UNIVERSITY: $28,500 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD AND SANGAMON COUNTY: $17,500 · AnimalsTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $3,600 · Arts & CultureCharity Navigator: $1,400 · Human Services
Other$558,450International$160,000Civil Rights$110,000Health$46,000Education$43,500Animals$17,500Arts & Culture$9,600Human Services$1,400

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 budgetCENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: $110,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $105,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDREW UNIVERSITY: $28,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD AND SANGAMON COUNTY: $17,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASSISTANCE FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $1,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $1,000 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 CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DREW UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE OF SPRINGFIELD AND SANGAMON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ASSISTANCE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC ↗
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Drew University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 38 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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