· Private foundation
The Stephen M Sander Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $114k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION GIVING NETWORK | $43,000 |
| NXT ART FOUNDATION INC | $26,000 |
| GLO GOOD FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| BUCKHORN PUBLIC ARTS | $10,250 |
| ASPEN INSTITUTE SOCIETY OF FELLOWS | $10,000 |
| CHILDRENS ONCOLOGY SUPPORT FUND | $10,000 |
| WILD BEAR NATURE CENTER | $7,500 |
| COALITION FOR FAIRNESS IN SOHONOHO | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ACES | $5,000 |
| ASPEN HOPE CENTER | $3,020 |
| ASPEN ART MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| SUSAN G KOMEN FOR THE CURE | $1,000 |
| CARE WITH ME FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| COLORADOGIVESORG | $520 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 11 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, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TCTHE CARVER INC3× · 2018–2020 · $69k · revenue +132%
WILD BEAR NATURE CENTER3× · 2022–2024 · $67k · revenue +29%- WCWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC3× · 2017–2019 · $65k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- TWTOGETHER WE RISEone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue 0%
- LFLAUNCH FLOYD BENNETT FIELD CAPITAL FUNDone grant, 2021 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…
The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…
To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.
Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.
Develops legal and technical infrastructure for digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Colorado and the most unlike its peers is Ark Charities Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 85 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE CARVER INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILD BEAR NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MUSICIANS UNITE INC ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE RISE ↗
- Who funds ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Coalition for Fairness in SoHo and NoHo Inc ↗
- Who funds NXT ART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY OUTWARD BOUND CENTER INC DBA NYC OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds ONLY ONE INC ↗
- Who funds DEGREGORIO FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds Buckhorn Public Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds ARK CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY SUPPORT FUND ↗
- Who funds The Watering Hole Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds DALTON SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH TOWN PARTY INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Young Mens Christian Association of Westport/Weston Ct Inc · The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Colorado Gives Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Impactassetsinc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Stephen M Sander Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Carver Inc — 16% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc — 3% of income from government
- Young Musicians Unite Inc — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.