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SANDLER FOUNDATION

EIN 94-3147856 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Revenue 2024
-$2,171,474
Expenses 2024
$356,183,505

Program services were 99.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T900
Classification
1000
Street
1 STEUART STREET

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • JAMES SANDLER

    DIRECTOR/BOARD CHAIR/VP

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PHYLLIS COOK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $66,356
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $66,356
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 10 related

  • DAVID AGGER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID FOLKMAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEVE DAETZ

    DIRECTOR,PRESIDENT,AST SEC

    Total calculated
    $699,861
    From this org
    $602,182
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $97,679
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $599,563
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $2,619
    Deferred
    $72,500
    Nontaxable benefits
    $25,179
    Filer's total
    $699,861

  • JOY SISISKY

    TREASURER/SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $772,970
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $716,370
    Other
    $56,600
    Hours/week
    1 + 37.5 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $577,700 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $137,500 related
    Other
    $0 + $1,170 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $21,350 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $35,250 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $772,970 related

  • SERGIO KNAEBEL

    GRANTS DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $334,498
    From this org
    $263,327
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $71,171
    Hours/week
    36

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $261,928
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $1,399
    Deferred
    $39,289
    Nontaxable benefits
    $31,882
    Filer's total
    $334,498

  • JEANNETTE DEMESMIN-RODRIGUES

    EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT

    Total calculated
    $145,051
    From this org
    $115,903
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,148
    Hours/week
    32

  • SUSAN HYDE

    EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT

    Total calculated
    $138,002
    From this org
    $115,890
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,112
    Hours/week
    32

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    -$2,171,474
    Expenses
    $356,183,505
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $353,625,080
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $16,621,643
    Expenses
    $65,066,512
    Contributions
    $125,914
    Grants paid
    $62,496,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $15,366,307
    Expenses
    $70,736,091
    Contributions
    $1,000
    Grants paid
    $68,176,530

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility SOUNK.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.