New York · Nonprofit
SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC
SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC (New York) receives grants from 291 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,023,629 to it, the largest being DAYTON FOUNDATION PLUS INC ($3,200,000). 164 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31M
- Funders on record
- 291
- Grants received
- $46M
- Net assets
- $24M
What Sanctuary for Families Inc does
Mission
New york's leading service provider and advocate for survivors of domestic violence, sex trafficking and related forms of gender violence. (see schedule o for detail)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Legal representation, advocacy, and advice/consultation to 7,025 clients in areas including family law, immigration law, housing and public benefits, matrimonial law, and orders of protection. This included direct representation and advocacy for 3,715 clients in 7,476 legal cases. In addition, clients may be awarded direct financial grants for critical needs including rental assistance, childcare, food, education and transportation.
$13,873,529 spentof which $684,960 as grants$1,004 earned by the program49% of program spendingClinical services reached 2,628 adults and children last year, including individual, family, and group counseling; safety planning/danger assessments, and referrals for medical, mental health, and other urgent needs. In addition, clients may be awarded direct financial grants for critical needs including rental assistance, childcare, food, education and transportation.
$7,929,194 spentof which $798,292 as grants$4,591,159 earned by the program28% of program spendingTransitional domestic violence shelter housed 116 adults and 142 children, with 59 clients discharged and served through post-shelter services such as counseling, case management, financial assistance, and legal referrals. Sanctuary's 4 emergency domestic violence shelters housed 65 adults and 107 children. In addition, clients may be awarded direct financial grants for critical needs including rental assistance, childcare, food, education and transportation.
$3,880,625 spentof which $65,869 as grants14% of program spendingThe economic empowerment program (eep) is an intensive service-sector career training program offered in-house at our main office and one additional location. Its 4-month, full-day training program includes career readiness; office technology skills including ms word, excel and powerpoint; and english and math literacy. Eep served 454 clients including 127 in 4 months career training program, and 57 in abbreviated spanish language training program. The remaining clients engaged in internships, supplemental occupational training, job placement assistance, esol classes, and/or other ancillary programs. In addition, clients may be awarded direct financial grants for critical needs including rental assistance, childcare, food, education and transportation.
$2,452,298 spentof which $673,597 as grants9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $28,135,646.
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 2022 to 2023, from $32M to $46M (+45%).
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: 2017 63% · 2018 52% · 2019 67% · 2020 66% · 2021 60% · 2022 44% · 2023 49% · 2024 45% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Judy H Kluger
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 55 funders to 111 funders, grant income rose $2.1M → $7.6M.
40 of 291 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 291 funders by total. 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
SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 7% of grant income, and it takes 12 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 12 funders to its left
52% 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 SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 12% · 2018 20% · 2019 18% · 2020 11% · 2021 8% · 2022 27% · 2023 13% — broadly stable.
“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.
How long its funders stay
44% of SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
66% of SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC's funding base is broadening — from 55 funders to 111 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.0M on record.
- Department of Justice$6.1M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$4.6M
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.3M
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 SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES 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 New York
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
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Sanctuary for Families Housing Development Fund Corporation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC?
- SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC (New York) receives grants from 291 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,023,629 to it, the largest being DAYTON FOUNDATION PLUS INC ($3,200,000). 164 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 291 organizations giving $46,023,629 in grants to SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC, 164 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC?
- DAYTON FOUNDATION PLUS INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 291 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing