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SECRET SANDY CLAUS PROJECT INC

SECRET SANDY CLAUS PROJECT INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,500 to it, the largest being Participatory Safety Inc ($13,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2022
$30k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$21k
Net assets
$10k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Secret Sandy Claus Project Inc does

Mission

To provide assistance to low income families affected by crisis.

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.

Program

We collect thousands of toys every year, recruit volunteers as santas and elves and deliver toys to over 5000 children affected by childhood cancer, poverty, disabilities, and domestic violence.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($38k) Expenses 100 ($29k) Net assets 100 ($9k)2019 Revenue 75 ($28k) Expenses 104 ($30k) Net assets 81 ($7k)2020 Revenue 109 ($41k) Expenses 107 ($31k) Net assets 196 ($17k)2022 Revenue 79 ($30k) Expenses 88 ($25k) Net assets 112 ($10k)
2018201920202022
Revenue (79)Expenses (88)Net assets (112)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $7k to $17k (+141%).

$9k
$7k
$17k
$10k
2018201920202022
Total assets

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.

2018
2019
2020
2022
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of SECRET SANDY CLAUS PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$9k
’18
−$2k
’19
$10k
’20
$4k
’22
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $8k.

Funder
'17
'18
'20
'21
total
$13k
funders
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of SECRET SANDY CLAUS PROJECT 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

SECRET SANDY CLAUS PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

63% 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 SECRET SANDY CLAUS PROJECT INC.

63%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

63% of SECRET SANDY CLAUS PROJECT INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
CT
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’20
’21
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SECRET SANDY CLAUS PROJECT INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,237 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,237 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2022

Organizations like SECRET SANDY CLAUS PROJECT INC

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In New York

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05Profile & governance

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

NY

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SECRET SANDY CLAUS PROJECT 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 SECRET SANDY CLAUS PROJECT INC?
SECRET SANDY CLAUS PROJECT INC (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,500 to it, the largest being Participatory Safety Inc ($13,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SECRET SANDY CLAUS PROJECT INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $20,500 in grants to SECRET SANDY CLAUS PROJECT INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SECRET SANDY CLAUS PROJECT INC?
Participatory Safety Inc is the largest funder on record, with $13,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SECRET SANDY CLAUS PROJECT 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2018–2022), and the filings of 3 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