Texas · Nonprofit
SANDBOX AT MADELINES PLACE
SANDBOX AT MADELINES PLACE (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $319,913 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($97,650). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $89k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $320k
- Net assets
- $40k
What Sandbox at Madelines Place does
Mission
The mission of The Sandbox at Madelines Place is to empower teenagers to navigate adolescence safely happily and with a healthy sense of self. We carry out this mission recreational activities after school programs relationship building and mentoring.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Our after school and extra educational and recreational activities give teens expanded friendships confidence and mentoring relationships. Food and supplies
$6,500 spent8% of program spendingEducational and fun field trips to expand horizons
$2,588 spent3% of program spendingDirect relationship staffing: cost of staffing for all encounters with our teens throughout our programs.
$76,867 spent89% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $85,955.
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 $103k to $68k (−34%).
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.
97% of SANDBOX AT MADELINES PLACE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
John Haynes
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $41k.
9 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 SANDBOX AT MADELINES PLACE’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
SANDBOX AT MADELINES PLACE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 SANDBOX AT MADELINES PLACE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 56% · 2020 47% · 2021 62% · 2022 54% · 2023 60% — 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.
How long its funders stay
75% of SANDBOX AT MADELINES PLACE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
73% of SANDBOX AT MADELINES PLACE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $87k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $233k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
SANDBOX AT MADELINES PLACE has grown faster than half of the 3,200 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SANDBOX AT MADELINES PLACE
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SANDBOX AT MADELINES PLACE: 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 SANDBOX AT MADELINES PLACE?
- SANDBOX AT MADELINES PLACE (Texas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $319,913 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($97,650). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SANDBOX AT MADELINES PLACE have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $319,913 in grants to SANDBOX AT MADELINES PLACE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANDBOX AT MADELINES PLACE?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $97,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANDBOX AT MADELINES PLACE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 12 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