New York · Private foundation
The Sapp Family 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.
- $860k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
58% of The Sapp Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $335,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 4
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Sapp Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $360k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $360k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $415k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $125k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $600k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $530k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $95k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Colorado Foundation | $1,885,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Feeding San Diego | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Pacific Ridge School | $140,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Share the Magic Foundation Inc | $120,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Old Globe Theatre | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Chicken Shed Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 19% |
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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Sapp Family Foundation
- How much does The Sapp Family Foundation give?
- The Sapp Family Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $860,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Sapp Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (91%), Food & Nutrition (8%), Arts & Culture (1%).
- Who are The Sapp Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: University of Colorado Foundation ($1.9M), Feeding San Diego ($300k), Pacific Ridge School ($140k).
- Does The Sapp Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sapp Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Sapp Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Sapp Family Foundation based?
- The Sapp Family Foundation is based in NY.
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