Missouri · Nonprofit
Safe and Sound A Sandy Hook Initiative Inc
Safe and Sound A Sandy Hook Initiative Inc (Missouri) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $578,498 to it, the largest being DREXEL UNIVERSITY ($237,172). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $578k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Safe and Sound A Sandy Hook Initiative Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to support school crisis prevention, response, and recovery, and to protect every school and every student, every day.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Safe and sound's community and statewide initiatives work with local governments and boards of education to bring together regional stakeholders for greater impact. States, counties and districts can scale their school safety investments by bringing together multiple sros, first responders, and school staff to central locations, thereby increasing efficiency and productivity when rethinking school safety. Safe and sound schools can tailor workshops to the unique needs of local geographies as a stand-alone event, or as part of a regional state tour to reach more stakeholders in a shorter time frame. This concentrated focus builds mind share and helps create synergies across multiple shcools and districts. Participating organizations can learn and share best practices, and serve resources to each other as they audit, act and assess their shcool safety efforts.
$1,393,590 spentof which $1,183 as grants56% of program spendingSafe and sound hosts national and regional school safety summit events. These events include nationally recognized speakers and partner with organizations to bring best practices, innovative programs and actionable insight to the world of school safety.
$733,783 spent$1,135,780 earned by the program29% of program spendingSafe and sound's custom workshops and seminars engage educational administrators and/or community members in creating safer schools through several programs, inlcuding averted school violence, bright futures, comprehensive school safety framework, especially safe, and pathways for prevention. In addition to the specialized programs offered, safe and sound partners with a network of experts to provide specialized consulting to help school districts plan and prepare for safety.
$371,617 spent$652,807 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,498,990.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $870k to $1.4M (+60%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 16% · 2022 23% · 2023 30% · 2024 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of Safe and Sound A Sandy Hook Initiative Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Michele Hartman-Gay
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $20k → $129k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Safe and Sound A Sandy Hook Initiative Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Safe and Sound A Sandy Hook Initiative Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Safe and Sound A Sandy Hook Initiative Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 78% · 2021 79% · 2022 79% · 2023 54% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
Safe and Sound A Sandy Hook Initiative Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $101k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Safe and Sound A Sandy Hook Initiative Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Safe and Sound A Sandy Hook Initiative Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.6M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Safe and Sound A Sandy Hook Initiative Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Safe and Sound A Sandy Hook Initiative Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Safe and Sound A Sandy Hook Initiative Inc?
- Safe and Sound A Sandy Hook Initiative Inc (Missouri) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $578,498 to it, the largest being DREXEL UNIVERSITY ($237,172). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Safe and Sound A Sandy Hook Initiative Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $578,498 in grants to Safe and Sound A Sandy Hook Initiative Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Safe and Sound A Sandy Hook Initiative Inc?
- DREXEL UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $237,172 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Safe and Sound A Sandy Hook Initiative Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing